Yesterday, the United States Air Force posted its Final Environmental Impact Statement for the fifth beddown operation of F-35 fighter jets. The final statement says Madison’s 115th Fighter Wing, located at Truax Field on Madison’s northeast side, remains “the preferred alternative” for the next beddown. In a press release yesterday, the Madison-based Badger Air Community […]
State Senate Passes Police Body Cam Law
Yesterday, a bill that would regulate police body cameras passed the State Senate without objection. Police body cameras are currently unregulated, as is the footage they record. This bill wouldn’t require police officers to wear body cameras. There isn’t comprehensive data on how many of Wisconsin’s approximately 500 law enforcement agencies use body cameras. But […]
The Way We Eat: Where we went wrong with school lunches
The push for school lunch programs initially came about during the turn of the last century. The first programs were rolled out in Chicago and New York public schools, then the largest school systems in the nation, in the early 1900s. Since the earliest days of those initial efforts, there has been a constant debate […]
Madison, Feb. 21-22, 1967: Dow 1– the Skirmish
Getting the Dow Chemical Company to stop making the incendiary gel Napalm B for use in Vietnam became a priority for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) when the Ann Arbor chapter launched a protest campaign against the Michigan- based company in August 1966. Six months later, the Madison SDS steps up. Tuesday morning, February […]
You could be our new morning talk host!
Do you have a passion for performing? Do you love local news, science, culture, and arts? Are you searching for a platform to highlight people in the community? Apply to be the next host of our morning drive time program. About the show: The 8 O’Clock Buzz is a an upbeat, morning program on WORT […]
Madison Teachers Union Demands Changes to District Gender Policies
Last month, Frank Allis Elementary School teacher Vica Steel shared an open letter with Our Lives magazine saying that the Madison Metro School District had asked school staff to no longer use the same bathrooms as students. According to Steel, who is an out transgender woman, no other schools received this request and her cisgender […]
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