Joan Esposito

Some Bread to Go With Our Circuses? (Hour 2)

June 6, 2025

The bromance breakup of Oval Office besties makes for colorful commentary, but it doesn’t yet change anything about how Republicans in Congress are moving forward with plans to explode the national debt and slash important services to pay for a massive handout to corporations and the very-wealthy. If we’re going to get circuses from our equivalent of Rome, could we at least get some of the bread back too? We’ll talk to our Week In Review panel and avoid distractions while our pockets are being picked.

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Trumps Ends Local Service Offices (Hour 2)

March 7, 2025

Step away for a moment from the big numbers about all the people President Trump is terminating. Look at the local level and you’ll see how your federal tax dollars help provide services through offices around the country. Trump and Elon Musk are closing more than a dozen such offices around our state. We’ll tell you what they do and how the guys who promised to make government more efficient are in the process of making much less efficient.

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Best and Worst Actors (Hour 2)

February 28, 2025

On this Oscar weekend, we’ll talk about our own nominees for the best and worst actors in today’s political theater. We’ll talk to two Chicago news veterans: print journalist Mark Jacob and broadcaster Joan Esposito, as well as former US Attorney Jim Santelle.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on FacebookX, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show!

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