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Vice President Mike Pence Campaigns With Gov. Walker
Walker and Evers are locked in a dead heat, according to Wednesday’s Marquette University Law School poll. Walker leads Evers by a single point — 47 to 46 percent, well within the margin of error. Pence rallied to push Walker over that threshold today at his stop at a Golf Course and Country Club in […]
Madison in the Sixties: October – October 1960
High drama over high stakes for Monona Terrace, cheers for Fidel Castro, and applause for entertainers from South Africa, France, and Kenosha, and an iconic store branches out. Just some of the things going on 58 years ago this month. Madison, October 1960 October 1 – South African singer Miriam Makeba, who has become an […]
Wisconsin Book Festival Kicks Off Thursday
Book lovers will flock to the Madison Central Library starting on Thursday for the annual Wisconsin Book Festival. The event has four days of authors and writers lined up to give talks on works ranging from poetry to politics to science literature. WORT producer Nina Kravinsky caught up with book festival organizer Conor Moran to […]
Workers Allege Mistreatment from Asian Restaurants, Employment Agencie...
A new collaboration from the Chicago Sun-Times and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism delves into alleged mistreatment of Latino workers at many Midwestern Asian restaurants. Chicago-based employment agencies shuffle workers, many of whom are undocumented, to different Chinese buffets and similar restaurants across the Midwest. Workers say they’re often made to work long hours […]
Questions Remain As City Nears Removing Monument
“Some of you might be wondering, ‘Didn’t we go through this?’ Yes, we did, but we asked to have it done legally,” District 6 Alder Marsha Rummel says, acknowledging what Madison residents may be thinking Wednesday, as the City’s Common Council [once again] voted 16 to 2 on Tuesday to remove a Confederate grave marker […]
Dane County Climate Change Council (Part 1) & New Utility Pledges...
We kick off this show with news about major utility commitments announced in August to reduce CO2 emissions. We speak with Will Dean of RENEW WI about emissions reduction pledges from WEC Energy Group and Alliant Energy and what that will mean for the future of renewable energy in WI. Keith Reopelle, Director of the […]