Home • Blog • Donate
Values / Policies

/ Posts / Interview with WAOW about the dangers of opening up restaurants and bars right now

Interview with WAOW about the dangers of opening up restaurants and bars right now

Kirk Bangstad
05/15/20

Interview with WAOW about the dangers of opening up restaurants and bars right now. 

WAITING TO RE-OPEN: Minoqua Brewing Company owner tells News 9 he wants to re-open when he feels safe and ready to do so.

https://waow.com/2020/05/14/some-area-businesses-are-choosing-to-wait-to-reopen/?fbclid=IwAR1TYMJ_ljnUMQvHaH537TFYIBMH-8JsDJYg_bMbG-G9qrkC80hsGlDpXYU

Written by Kirk Bangstad on 05/15/20

Keep reading...

05/15/20

Hupy and Abraham Bully Their Way out of Facing the Truth
05/15/20

Introducing #kamalabeer
05/15/20

Time for Northwoods Businesses to Reject Tom Tiffany
05/15/20

Democracy Will Win, and the Traitors Will be held Accountable.
05/15/20

More Bullying by the Lakeland Times
05/15/20

The Events of January 6, 2021, will Live in Infamy
05/15/20

Introducing the Minocqua Brewing Company SuperPAC
05/15/20

Ron Johnson and Tom Tiffany among the few to Vote Against Stimulus Package
05/15/20

Republicans Once Again Fail to Protect Us from PFAS Pollution
05/15/20

Getting the Historical Record Right for the Minocqua Summer of 2020
05/15/20

Happy Thanksgiving and Pura Vida
05/15/20

I'm sorry about using the word "Dumb."
05/15/20

What the 34th Assembly Debate says about Wisconsin Politics
05/15/20

Swearingen Played Politics with Rhinelander's Water
05/15/20

Closing my Brewpub for the Season: A Shared Casualty of Failed Leadership
05/15/20

Frustrated, Tired, and Hurt
05/15/20

Not enough tests to go back to in-person schooling
05/15/20

Remembering my Late Wife Elizabeth
05/15/20

Covid has finally hit Minocqua, and I'm Mad
05/15/20

Eagle River, the Mature Police Department
05/15/20

What You'd Call A Dream
05/15/20

We need Leadership Now more than Ever
05/15/20

"Refund" all the Programs that the Police Shouldn't have to Deal With
05/15/20

Conspiracy Theories are Tearing Us Apart.
05/15/20

Believe it or not, I've got some conservative views
05/15/20

Swearingen Can't be Bothered to Wear a Mask
05/15/20

Wisconsin #1 in Rate of Covid-19 Infection
05/15/20

Atonement, Drug Abuse, and Grace
05/15/20

Tears and Hope on July 4
05/15/20

Swearingen and Tavern League Dishonesty Hurting Wisconsinites
05/15/20

Time for a New Coach
05/15/20

My Republican friends, why do you think that although 80% of Republican legislators voted absentee last April in a pandemic, they now oppose making it easier to vote by mail in November?
05/15/20

It's Time for Morality to Guide our Politics
05/15/20

We need to move our Overton Window back to the Center
05/15/20

Let's Not Screw over our Schools.
05/15/20

Democracy is the core value of America, and it is dying in front of our eyes
05/15/20

You may have read the Op Ed about me in the Lakeland Times and River News last Friday
05/15/20

Remembrances of My Father
05/15/20

So I discussed racial justice with some people of color last night at my house
05/15/20

We gotta leave the petty world of libel suits and newspaper publisher bullies and move back to the things that really matter to us in the Northwoods
05/15/20

So if our own Minocqua mini-Donald is gonna sue me for libel
05/15/20

So Gregg Walker of the Lakeland Times just threatened to sue me for libel
05/15/20

We’re gonna have some doozy posts next week
05/15/20

I fully support nonpartisan redistricting to strengthen democracy in Wisconsin
05/15/20

What do 89%, 85%, 81%, 80% have in common?
05/15/20

It’s ok to be a Republican and reject Republicans that don’t share your values
05/15/20

As confidence in our federal government is at an all time low
05/15/20

So New Zealand just declared the pandemic officially over in their country
05/15/20

Murkowski, Will, Romney, Powell, Mattis...
05/15/20

So yesterday, the River News in Rhinelander came out with a hit piece against Linda Conlon,
05/15/20

The Republican Party that has evolved first under Scott Walker in Wisconsin then Trump in 2016 is no longer the party you grew up voting for
05/15/20

Hi Rob Swearingen, do you have buyer’s remorse?
05/15/20

I can’t add one single word to the many heartfelt thoughts expressed by the black community during this terribly traumatic week of death and riots
05/15/20

Awesome letter to the editor published by the Lakeland Times
05/15/20

Please watch this video and channel your anger to change at the ballot box
05/15/20

Congrats Rhinelander, you successfully averted a disaster by getting over 8,000 signatures in two days to cancel the Hodag Country Fest
05/15/20

Donate to Bangstad for Wisconsin 34th Assembly
05/15/20

The drumbeat of new cases in Oneida County and Wisconsin continues
05/15/20

I just read about the decision to NOT cancel Hodag Country Fest this July during a global pandemic
05/15/20

Scenes like these will lead this country into civil war
05/15/20

On this Memorial Day Weekend, The New York Times’ front page memorialized 1,000 people who died from Covid-19
05/15/20

Hi, my name is Kirk Bangstad and I’m running for assembly in the 34th district against Rob, “let-them-eat-Covid,” Swearingen
05/15/20

Hi all, I need your help before June 1, and so do other local Democrats running for office
05/15/20

Most new cases in a single day today
05/15/20

Hi this is Kirk Bangstad and I’m running for state assembly in the 34th district against Rob, sacrificing-grandmas-to-sell-more-vodka, Swearingen
05/15/20

Insert Rob Swearingen and the Republican legislature in the title of this article below and the Journal Sentinel has it right
05/15/20

FYI, Here’s my interview with Channel 12 WJFW yesterday
05/15/20

I'm Kirk Bangstad, running against Rob "pro-life-only-until-a global-pandemic-hits" Swearingen for Wisconsin's 34th assembly district
05/15/20

Well that was quite a decision handed down to us by the Wisconsin Supreme Court last night
05/15/20

Just got this from the Tavern League of Wisconsin
05/15/20

As promised, because this is the foremost issue on everyone's mind
05/15/20

So here's the Introductory paragraph I wrote in the Minocqua Brewing Company May Newsletter
05/15/20

Hi Everyone, Many of you asked where you can donate to the campaign
05/15/20

Here’s the video of WJFW’s announcement of my candidacy
05/15/20

As a brewpub owner, I am by definition a tavern owner as well as a brewery owner
05/15/20

The US has failed in its response to the coronavirus
Connect On Facebook