This is an important announcement. The world as we know it will end shortly. All residents of the Madison area over the age of twenty one are advised to head for shelter at the Madison Children’s Museum, starting Friday, March 8th at 6:00 p.m. The Adult Swim program Apocalypse Wow could be your only hope. […]
River Alliance of WI polices Wisconsin’s Water
The River Alliance of Wisconsin is a non-profit group that works to maintain clean rivers, lakes, and streams all over the state — focussing on aquatic invasive species, agriculture run-off, sulfite mining, high-capacity wells, and more. Jan talks with Danika Lane, Communications Director of that group, about the group’s goals and activities, and how you […]
2017 Tax reform helps corporations the most. Who knew?
The Tax Reform bill of 2017 was supposed to close loopholes which had allowed corporations to avoid paying taxes, but a study by Matt Gardner, Senior Fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), of Netflix has shown that it reduced corporate taxes without closing the loopholes. He talks to Jan Miyasaki about […]
Consumer financial protections under attack
The Consumer Finance Protection Board was established following the recession of 2008. The Trump administration is disabling those protections from the inside out — by selecting administrators who are removing protections. Peter Skopec from WISPIRG, Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group, talks about weakening of regulations on predatory pay-day loan companies and other protections.
Amazon Rain Forest under threat
Brazil’s recently elected president Jair Bolsonaro has been called “The Trump of the Tropics” and has declared the Amazon Rain Forest “Open for Business”. Jan talks with the Executive Director of Amazon Watch, Leila Salazar-Lopez about the importance of that area and the threats to the forest and indigenous people.
How should we reform criminal justice at the Federal level?
In the midst of all the turmoil in Washington DC, just prior to control of the U.S. House of Representatives flipping from the Republicans to the Democrats, Congress and President Trump managed to pull off a bipartisan bill to reform federal sentencing and criminal justice laws. On December 21st, Trump signed the FIRST STEP act […]
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