Monthly Archives: December 2011

Goodbye 2011

This week “Here and Now” is pre-empted by holiday programming on WPT…so you won’t see us Friday at 7:30 p.m. as usual. We return next week, Friday, December 30, however, for a special year-in-review “Here and Now” program. We’ve been … Continue reading

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Hitchens on Wisconsin

I wasn’t really a reader of Christopher Hitchens, who died last week. I more often heard him commented about. Whether it was his outspoken atheism or his surprising support for war in Iraq, he demanded the attention of the punditry. … Continue reading

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What’s On?

Former Governor and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, joins “Here & Now” tonight for his first interview with us since announcing he’s running for U.S. Senate. Also we’ve traveled to Milwaukee to hear the latest signature … Continue reading

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The Year That Was

As I write this our Reporter/Anchor Frederica Freyberg is editing together a special report for our year-end special edition of Here and Now. Our December 30 episode will include Frederica’s retrospective of the past political year. And what a year … Continue reading

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A pre-caucus Iowa visit

Work brought me to Iowa last week and I went expecting, even looking forward to seeing first-hand evidence of the GOP race for president. But apart for the political ads playing silently on the TV over the bar at Lefty’s … Continue reading

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