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This week on Mel & Floyd: Pledge-Rapping and Union Organizing; RoJo – America’s Dumbest Senator?; Deceased WORT Water Heater to Lie In State?; 2020 Was a Good Year for Removing Confederate Monuments; Disney Downsizing; A “New” Water Heater From Hippie Christmas; And Other Random Topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and […]
Dirty Gold: Inside South America’s Illicit Gold Trade
Gold prices have skyrocketed during the pandemic, and illegal mining is bigger than ever. We’re living in a 21st-century gold rush. Today on the show, investigative reporters Nicholas Nehamas and Jim Wyss take us to the underworld of South America’s illicit gold trade and share information and insight from their new co-authored book, Dirty Gold. […]
The Sleeper Population of Spiny Water Flea in Lake Mendota
WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Sleeper Population of Spiny Water Flea in Lake Mendota A new report in the journal BioScience finds that it’s not uncommon for “sleeper populations” of invasive species to lie low in new environments for years or even decades. These small, self-sustaining populations of nonnative species can exist […]
Wauwatosa police ‘ghost arrested’ dozens of protesters las...
During last year’s protests against police brutality, the Wauwatosa police department reported arresting dozens of people. But, according to a new investigation by the Wisconsin Examiner, none of those people were ever actually taken into custody. For the details, our producer Jonah Chester spoke with Isiah Holmes, a journalist with the Examiner and the author […]
Transparency Talk: Policies that are annoying… but not technical...
Filing public records requests, navigating open meetings laws, knowing what information you’re legally entitled to — it can all be a lot to manage. On this week’s episode of Transparency Talk, Producer Jonah Chester spoke with Tom Kamenick — President of the Wisconsin Transparency Project — about their open government pet peeves. A quick note […]
Proposed overhauls to Wisconsin’s elections part of national tre...
Last week, Wisconsin’s Republican lawmakers proposed sweeping overhauls to how the state conducts its elections. The six bills would change requirements for indefinitely confined voters, institute stricter voter ID laws and bar election funding from private organizations. Advocacy groups and Wisconsin’s Democratic legislators swiftly condemned the bills, saying that they were thinly veiled attempts at […]
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