President Trump was in Racine County last Thursday to attend the ground breaking ceremony of the new FoxConn factory. Officials say the factory will produce liquid crystal display screens and provide jobs for 13,000 people. The Taiwanese company was lured by Governor Walker’s a record breaking tax breaks totalling 4 Billion dollars in taxpayer money. […]
Kids of East High and Badger Rock Schools
Helena White, an IOBY reporter and anchor and a teacher at East High School, provides audio images of kids she’s worked with at East over the 2017-2018 school year, with some student help. Kids introduce topics, talk, sing, and conduct interviews with each other. Helena has produced this program each spring for the last 10 […]
World War I Diary
World War I started in July of 1914 as the result of conflict between 2 sets of allies: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, versus Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan and ultimately, the United States. Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in June of 1914, and this […]
Helena White Presents Students of Madison East High School
Helena White, a teacher at East High and news and music volunteer at WORT, presents recordings she’s made of the variety of 2016-2017 students at East, their interests and passions, and their skills and talents. Helena White: hspw@att.net
Who was Black Hawk?
WORT’s news reporter Helena White has just spent the summer traveling around Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois learning more about Black Hawk and the Black Hawk War. Over the summer she retraced the route of the war, visiting historic sites along the route and conducting interviews with Native historians. The story has been made into […]
The War on Black Hawk
A radio series exploring the 1832 conflict between Native Americans and the US government. In the Summer of 2016, Helena White re-traced the journey taken by Sauk Chief Black Hawk and 1,500 men, women and children in 1832 who were attempting to reclaim their territory in Northern Illinois that was ceded in a treaty they […]
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