WORT Local News
Plowshares and Prairie Farm: Balancing Environmental Work and Farming
Chelsea Chandler, 31, and Scott Laeser, 35, are finishing up their fifth season at Plowshares & Prairie Farm near Argyle, Wisc. They met and fell in love just as Chelsea was finishing up grad school at Yale University in environmental policy. Scott had gone to Yale years before in the same program, and was already […]
Turning a love of hip-hop into a mission and manifesto
In the first of four installments of the Four Ways podcast commentaries, we’ll meet Mark Evans who is among the Madisonians who has a deep commitment to hip-hop culture. Better known as ShaH… he has been a part of a movement to bounce back from unfair bans on live hip-hop shows and has worked hard […]
Interview with Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate, Mike McCabe
The newest Democrat to put his hat in the ring for the Wisconsin governor’s race is Mike McCabe, the founder and head of the non-profit advocacy group Blue Jean Nation. Prior to his work with Blue Jean Nation, McCabe spent 15 years running the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a group that tracks money in state politics. […]
Four Ways Podcast: the prequel
The Four Ways Podcast, a new project by Stacy Harbaugh and Kira Stewart, lets leaders in the Madison, Wisconsin area explain how they are working to make a difference for equity, inclusion and justice in our local community. Partnering with WORT-FM, Harbaugh and Stewart interview guests who offer four commentaries for WORT’s Local News on […]
Black Holes — The search of the midsize ones
Diego Casanova and Erin Boettcher talked about a gap in the observed mass of black holes. This gap corresponds to black holes with a mass between 10,000 to 100,000 times that of the Sun. A new discovery published in Nature presents a candidate for a black hole in this previously undetected mass range. Source: http://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0224-z
Madison Rally Protests the End of DACA
Last Tuesday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, would end in six months. This announcement sparked marches and rallies across the nation, including here in Madison. Hundreds rallied at Library Mall and marched to the Capitol Building on Saturday. They carried with them a message […]