Bela Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart, Old Crow Medicine Show, Pert Near Sandstone Headline This morning the Blue Ox Music Festival unveiled a star-studded … [Read More]
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A chat with John DeMain of Madison Symphony Orchestra
Madison Symphony Orchestra Maestro John DeMain spoke with Thursday morning classical host Ava Borelli about their upcoming concerts, January 21-23 at … [Read More]
Best 2021 Music: Year-End Charts
It's always dazzling to look back on a whole year's worth of music and try to pick your favorites! 2021 was another solid year with many great new … [Read More]
Access Hour Deals with the Devil
Paul Novak, one of the On the Horizon hosts says: "This is the 4th year I have done the last Access Hour show of the year. On Monday, Dec. 27 at … [Read More]
Holiday Cheer For Your Ears!!
Since we've (hardly) no place to go; unheard are cries of "Let it snow!" - Maybe you're thinking you'd like to hear a wintry mix of holiday and … [Read More]
Latest News
UW Nurses Accelerate Drive for a Union
Nurses working for the UW Hospitals and Clinics met with the CEO of the hospital last Thursday and presented more than 1500 nurses signed union … [Read More]
Revote following Amazon’s Questionable Anti-union Behavior
A second election at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama is set to kick off starting February 4th, according to notices posted by the … [Read More]
Oxfam Reveals Wealth Inequalities Explode During Covid Pandemic
The world’s ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion —at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a … [Read More]
Starbucks Employees Push to Unionize
Starbucks stores across the country continue their drive for unionization in the wake of another electoral victory for Starbucks Workers United, an … [Read More]
Raven Software’s QA Employees Unionize
Earlier today, January 21, workers in the quality assurance division at Raven Software in Middleton publicly announced their union. In their press … [Read More]
Latest Talk
A New Bill Would End Juvenile Life Without Parole. We Speak with Lead Author Rep. David Bowen.
25 states and the District of Columbia have abolished sentencing children and youth under 18 to lifetimes in prison. Not so in Wisconsin, where you have a lifetime sentence for a crime you committed in your youth. A bill introduced to the state … [Read More...]
Gerald Ford Opens for James Brown
This week on Mel & Floyd: Building democracy the Joe Stalin way; Legislating away “White Discomfort”; China’s slowing economy; Underlying fascism in comic books?; Eric T. pleads the fifth 500+ times; Delicious meat loaf; And other Random Topics; … [Read More...]
The media’s version of MLK Jr. vs the real MLK Jr
Jared A. Ball, professor of communication and Africana studies at Morgan State University, author of "The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power" and host of the podcast iMiXWHATiLIKE! spends a half hour talking to Jan about Martin Luther King, what … [Read More...]
The wealth divide in 44 countries — what a wealth tax could mean
"A wealth tax of 2% on the world’s millionaires, 3% on those with wealth above $50 million and 5% on the worlds billionaires would raise $2.52 trillion dollars annually. This would be enough to lift 2.3 billion people out of poverty, make enough vaccines … [Read More...]
