The final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the proposal to base F-35 military jets at the Truax Air National Guard Base was released earlier this week, confirming community leaders’ concerns about the impact of the F-35s on the health and safety of Madison residents. Today on the show, Allen is joined by Alder Rebecca Kemble […]
Lindorff: Pentagon budget is planned obfuscation
The Department of Defense’s budget is laden with made-up numbers and purposefully obscure as to avoid audits — this according to Dave Lindorff, award winning investigative journalist and founder of the group “This Can’t Be Happening“. Despite requirements by the GAO for all federal departments undergo financial audit, the Defense’s $1.3 Trillion budget has been […]
UW-Madison receives federal grant to get more students speaking Korean...
UW-Madison has received a $220,000 federal grant to kick off a program that aims to get more students speaking fluent Korean. The U.S. Department of Defense funnels money to universities through its Flagship language program to get more students fluent in languages deemed important for economic or security reasons. UW-Madison already offers an intensive Flagship […]
