Jim Campbell from Never Forgotten Honor Flight joined me on the Wisconsin Morning News to discuss their participation in Thrivent's Carols for a Cause. In the spirit of the Holiday Season, Thrivent will be blessing five Non-Profits with Carols for a Cause! Thrivent has selected five organizations to earn votes for thei...

A 2-year old toddler from El Salvador was found traveling alone by Texas authorities this past Sunday on the border near Eagle Pass. Was this child sold by or abducted from her parents? As a mom, I wouldn't even allow my young children to travel alone in our neighborhood, let alone to another country! There are already...

Welcome to the Golden Age of America. Elon Musk recently shared a 2022 video of President-elect Donald Trump outlining a plan to restore freedom of expression and eliminate "left-wing censorship regime," pledging immediate action upon taking office. Trump said: "When I am President, this whole rotten sys...

Welcome! This will be an ongoing chronicle of all the ways President Donald Trump will make America great again. Donald Trump's plan to dismantle the Deep State 1. "Immediately reissue my 2020 executive order, restoring the President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats." 2. "Clean out all of the corr...

Wisconsin Right Now's Jessica McBride joined me on The Meg Ellefson Show (here) and (here) to recap the election results and determine if there will be a reckoning with Democrats after Donald Trump's decisive electoral (and popular) vote victory on November 5. Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party (the so-called party o...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Sunday is the third week of Advent; the Sunday of Joy. So, raise your hand if you've had a joy deficit this year. My hand just went up. My finances have been tighter in the past year. My career, and my life in general have become more challenging in the past year. I'm healthy, but I'm aware ...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - On yesterday's WSAU Wisconsin Morning News, host Meg Ellefson offered a long list of dubious federally funded research. You and me - the taxpayers - fund university studies on how bumble bees behave when high on cocaine, on why monkeys use one hand and not another when throwing their feces, a...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - You've probably never heard of Garrick Dixon. He's one of the unknown... and unhoused in Wausau. On a cold night last month when temperatures dropped into the single-digits, he froze to death in Marathon Park. He was sleeping on a bench in one of the park shelters, and never woke up. His body...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - The problem with the New York City subway is this: it's a 424 station insane asylum and homeless shelter on wheels. The liberals who run the city refuse to clean it up. If I were to take you on a tour, the long corridor that connects the Number 7 line with the Lexington Avenue line always ha...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) True confession: When I first moved to Central Wisconsin 20 years ago, I was going to buy a house in Merrill. Even then, Wausau's property taxes were higher than surrounding communities. Merill didn't work out for me and my family. As a smaller city, there was less housing stock on the market....

As a kid in the 1960s-early 70's listening to WRIG & WIFC and pestering the DJs with requests and telling them that they were playing the wrong songs, I really couldnt have envisioned working in that business for nearly 40 years and spending many of those years working at those stations. I can't remember when I dec...

We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago.... The only "new" Christmas album I could find from 1972 was this one from "The Man In Black". He and his family, touring band and several notable guests deliver an album of mostly original holiday material along with old standbyes "Jingle...

We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... Maybe the oddest thing about the hit double LP "Made In Japan" from the band Deep Purple is the fact that they didnt even want to record it and then when it was recorded didn't really care if it got released. Many fans had recorded bootleg tapes of t...

We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... This is one of those LPs that nobody in Central Wisconsin heard at the time. No one was really playing jazz records here. Even ones as funky as this. You may not know the name Bernard "Pretty" Purdie but I guarantee you have heard him play. He was Ar...

We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... The New Riders of The Purple Sage were prolific if nothing else. "Gypsy Cowboy" was the second Lp of the year and their 3rd in 15 months. As in most cases of that much material being needed, some is weaker than most. The best tracks on the Lp are a s...

A pair of big end-of-year discussions are on tap for leaders in Wausau on Thursday. First at 11 AM the Water Works Commission will hear a presentation on fluoride in drinking water, as many wonder if the additive will be banned in the coming months. The debate over adding fluoride to public water sources has re-emerged...

Tuesday's Wausau City Council Meeting will include a public hearing and vote to approve or deny the proposed 2025 city budget. The spending plan includes a mill rate of $8.72. That's a slight decrease from the 2024 rate of $9.06, according to materials included with Tuesday's agenda. But before you celebrate, remember ...

Another round of 2025 budget discussions is scheduled for Tuesday at Wausau City Hall. The city's Finance Committee is scheduled to meet at 5:15 to go over the proposed spending plan, which Mayor Doug Diny says should not include an increase of more than 2.5% to the levy, or the total amount of tax revenue collected. A...

The Wausau City Council is scheduled to take up a resolution regarding the much talked about municipal dropbox on Tuesday. And it's not whether to use or not use the much-talked-about receptacle. According to an amended agenda published on Monday, Alders will vote to spend $3,000 for updated security cameras and a new ...

A Joint Review Board in Rib Mountain will consider final approval for a tax increment finance district on Wednesday afternoon. TID 2 would cover an area from the Rib Mountain Golf Course to County NN and Robin Lane. The plan would reserve the first 12% of property tax value to fund infrastructure projects that would st...

(DNR) MADISON, Wis. - Student archers from 51 public, private and home schools competed virtually in the state's National Archery in the Schools Progr...

It took less than an hour for President Trump to send out his first message on social media following his swearing in. Trump posted the following message on Facebook: Greg Belfrage @belfrageshow is the veteran morning show host on KELO Newstalk 1320/107.9 in Sioux Falls, SD. Greg can be contacted at greg.belfrage@mwcra...

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say any repeal of Obamacare should include an immediate replacement plan. The Morning Consult/Politico poll says voters support the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but they want another plan at the ready. Replacing Obamacare was listed by a plurality of voters as the top job facing Pre...

Much has been written about “tribal politics” since the November 8 election. Simply put, loyalty to the tribe is put above all else. In a piece for the Washington Post, Michael Gerson uses the acceptance of criminal Julian Assange by leading conservative figures to maximum effect in explaining tribal politi...

A U.S. intelligence community report declassified Friday squarely blames Russian President Vladimir Putin for “influence campaign” aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton and helping President-elect Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The report concludes that it was Putin himself who ordered the campa...