Pat Kreitlow

2 weeks ago | upnorthnewswi.com | Pat Kreitlow

Nationally known for his angry outbursts, the Wisconsin congressman angrily attacked critics of the House Republican budget plan to slash $230 billion in USDA programs. Making the mathematically impossible claim that $230 billion in cuts would not cut “a nickel” from the benefits of citizens who were “lawfully” receiving them, US Rep. Derrick Van Orden screamed at and belittled an economist who was testifying before the House Agriculture Committee on Tuesday.

3 weeks ago | upnorthnewswi.com | Pat Kreitlow

Progressives will retain control of the State Supreme Court. Elsewhere, the Voter ID constitutional amendment passes and Jill Underly is ahead in her quest for a second term vs. Brittany Kinser. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will remain controlled by progressive justices as voters on Tuesday elected Susan Crawford and soundly rejected public appeals by the world richest man, Elon Musk, on behalf of conservative candidate Brad Schimel.

1 month ago | upnorthnewswi.com | Pat Kreitlow

Wisconsin goes to the polls to decide control of the state Supreme Court and determine who’s in charge of schools—plus a constitutional referendum, school referendums, and local offices. Only days remain until Wisconsin voters are asked to step up and decide important races that will have significant consequences in a range of areas—from reproductive health rights to fair maps, from clean drinking water to healthy public schools.

1 month ago | upnorthnewswi.com | Pat Kreitlow

The Assembly passes a bill to boost President Trump’s plan of stepped-up racial profiling, despite the risks of errant arrests and silencing crime victims. County sheriffs in Wisconsin have wide latitude in determining the extent to which they will cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. That discretion would change under a bill passed Tuesday by Republicans in the state Assembly.

1 month ago | upnorthnewswi.com | Pat Kreitlow

The other 49 states have between 1% to 8% of their labor force working in industries getting hit by retaliatory tariffs. Nearly 10% of the Wisconsin workforce stands to be affected. President Trump’s first-term trade wars hit Wisconsin farmers hard, but they and other workers in the state may be on the verge of even deeper punishment as America’s trading partners impose retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump’s latest tariffs.