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WORT Local News presents alternative viewpoints in its news – both in the sources it uses and the stories it covers. Newscasts include local and state news, weather, and regular features. It aims to give underrepresented people a voice.

Air Force Releases Final Analysis on F-35 Impact

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Madison Teachers Union Demands Changes to District Gender Policies

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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 […]

Friends of PBS Considers Revoking Members’ Voting Rights

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Friends of PBS Wisconsin, originally the Friends of Wisconsin Public Television, is a nonprofit organization that supports the Public Broadcasting Service for Wisconsin.  They raise money, advocate for the service to Wisconsin residents, and manage volunteers.  The nonprofit says it also exists to ascertain the needs of the communities served and otherwise support the state’s […]

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