Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Google receives 1 billion searches for health information a day. People are searching online for their health information but where do they go from their searches? What websites are reliable? Once you get the information, how do you check for credibility? Everyone can experience low health literacy – the ability to understand information about […]
Wisconsin Health Literacy
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Google receives 1 billion searches for health information a day. People are searching online for their health information but where do they go from their searches? What websites are reliable? Once you get the information, how do you check for credibility? Everyone can experience low health literacy – the ability to understand information about […]
Prison Abolition and the Free the 350 Bail Fund
The Madison organization Free the 350 Bail Fund works to bail out Black people incarcerated in the Dane County jail system. They argue that incarceration is the modern-day slavery and are calling for an end to prisons. For today’s show, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow spends the hour talking about the racial injustices of the criminal […]
Madison Common Council kicks off 2021 budget deliberations
For more than five hours last night, the Madison Common Council listened to public input on the city’s 2021 budget. Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway has proposed a nearly $350 million operating and $161.6 million capital budget for next year. The more than $500 million joint budget comes as the city has been wracked by pandemic-induced economic […]
M Adams and Freedom Inc work against stereotypes
Jan Miyasaki talks with M Adams, co-founder of Madison’s Black Lives Matter and Co-director of Freedom, Inc, about that group’s activities of looking at new definitions and solutions to ending violence against women, gender-non-conforming and transgender folks and children.
