Chris Ott, Executive Director of the ACLU of Wisconsin, talks to Jan about the recent Republican-led Wisconsin legislature’s efforts to strip away powers of the incoming Democratic Governor Tony Evers and other incoming elected officials.
Redlined — a story of housing segregation in Chicago in the 60&#...
Jan Miyasaki talks with Linda Gartz about her new book, “Redlined: A memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in the 1960s Chicago”.
Think you might want to start a food cart?
Andrea Hughes, Project Director at Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC), a community organization which supports small business startup, talks about an upcoming class on how to start and run a food cart.
Government report predicts dire consequences to global warming
On Black Friday, a government report was released, produced by a team of more than 300 experts guided by a 60-member Federal Advisory Committee, which was extensively reviewed by the public and experts, including federal agencies and a panel of the National Academy of Sciences. The White House is already criticizing the government’s own data, […]
Returning a 95 year-old golf course to prairie
The Southern Wisconsin Land Conservancy has begun a project to return a golf course in Broadhead back to the prairie ecosystem it last was almosts 100 years ago. Steven Apfelbaum talks to Jan Miyasaki about this project and a fundraising event on December 7-8 in Broadhead to support the return to prairie.
More power lines over Dane Co. and SW Wisconsin?
American Transmission Co., ITC Midwest LLC and Dairyland Power Cooperative have plans for a 120-mile high-voltage transmission line connecting northeast Iowa and western Wisconsin. Dr. Gloria Belken is a member of the Cardinal Hickory Creek Opposition group, and she talks about the issues of power lines over this pristine land and discusses several workshops scheduled […]