WORT Ignites the Summer Festival Season! WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio is planning our annual outdoor music event, WORTstock, to be held in Warner … [Read More]
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MUSICIANS for WORT Benefit @ Mickey’s – LET’S ROCK!
By WORT 89.9FM
WORT is super fired-up to return to Mickey's on Friday, March 24th at 10pm for a fundraising Party! It's been awhile since we've done a show at … [Read More]

Sona Jobarteh: Kora Changemaker
Hejira world music radio show host Jeff Spitzer-Resnick recently caught up with Sona Jobarteh, the pioneering woman kora player from the Gambia, while … [Read More]

Fareed Haque on Jazz in Flight
On Thursday's Jazz In Flight host Matt Marcus interviewed Fareed Haque, who is playing with Goron Ivanovic at the North Street Cabaret on Friday March … [Read More]

Run for Refugee Food Security Saturday March 4th
By World View
The 42nd Annual Freeze for Food is a 5//10 K Run/Walk around Lake Wingra or the Arboretum on Saturday, March 4th. This year the Returned Peace Corps … [Read More]
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Small Towns Fight to Regulate CAFOs
Last year, a group of farmers filed a lawsuit against the small town of Laketown, Wisconsin, in Polk County, saying that local regulations against a … [Read More]

Bill Would Change Venues for Legislature-Related Cases
By Faye Parks and WORT News Department
Republican state legislators have introduced a bill that would randomize the court in cases where the legislature is a party. The proposal would apply … [Read More]

DHS Submits Plan for $8 Million in Opioid Settlement Funding
Today, the state health department submitted their spending plan for reducing drug overdoses to the state’s budget committee. This year’s $8 … [Read More]

Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford Running for District 15 Alder
District 15 sits on Madison’s east side, around Lake Monona, containing Olbrich Park, and the Schenk-Atwood Neighborhood. Dina Nina … [Read More]

In Pictures: Day of Resistance to Trans Genocide Rally
By Keith Wagner
On Saturday, March 18, roughly 200 people gathered to bring public awareness to the increasing amount of violence and legislation aimed at transgender … [Read More]
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Lower Your Standards!
By Mel & Floyd
This week on Mel & Floyd: Ruby fills in while ‘Pants is on I.R.; Mel fakes his book report; Is right wing outrage fizzling?; Idaho’s fantasies of Lebensraum; An unwelcome 174th anniversary; Short bald guys now in demand?; Another little side effect of … [Read More...]

Mapping Abundance with Candace Fujikane
Candace Fujikane joins us on A Public Affair to explain how mapping abundance is a profoundly decolonial act, and how much is to be learned from Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiians) in the face of climate change. Candace Fujikane is Professor of English at … [Read More...]

Dan Kaufman on the WI Supreme Court Race
In a recent New York Magazine article Dan Kaufman writes about the "increasingly acrimonious" race for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. He joins us on A Public Affair to talk how the outcome of the April 4th election could change the course of the entire … [Read More...]

Incompetent Voting in Dane County
A recent story run by Wisconsin Watch revealed that 95 people in Dane County who were deemed to be incompetent to vote had cast ballots in past elections. No, these are not citizens who are necessarily ill informed or have fallen prey to the lies and fake … [Read More...]