Today, we kick off 2021 with a looking-back/looking-forward conversation with alder Rebecca Kemble, a longtime Madison organizer, water protector, labor activist, and housing advocate. She talks about her hopes for the new year—the rising generation, community rights, the power to act collectively—and discusses important moments from 2020 in Madison city government, including higher resident participation […]
Exit Interview: Alder Marsha Rummel
Alder Marsha Rummel has represented Madison’s east side for the 6th District for nearly 14 years. Earlier this month, she announced that she’s stepping back, and won’t be running in the 2021 spring election. A lot has happened in a decade and a half—so much that Buzz host Jonathan Zarov realized they’d just scratched the […]
Goodbye, Alders: Max Prestigiacomo and Michael Tierney
Madison’s Common Council is made up of twenty alders elected by members of their district. This coming election cycle, five alders have announced they are not seeking re-election. For today’s show, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow talks with two of the outgoing alders, Max Prestigiacomo (district 8) and Michael Tierney (district 16), who reflect on their time […]
Trump Campaign Files Lawsuit Seeking to Overturn Wisconsin Election Re...
Photo by Connor Betts on Unsplash. The lawsuit from Trump’s legal team asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in Milwaukee and Dane County. It aims to garner Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes for President Trump, in a state president-elect Joe Biden won by more than 20,000 votes. The lawsuit, […]
Exploring the 2021 Dane County and Madison City Budgets
Last night, the Dane County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the 2021 county budget and starting tonight, the Madison Common Council will be reviewing city budget proposals for next year. Today on the show, we get an inside look into these budgets—and the challenges and priorities of each—with Dane County Board chair Analiese Eicher and […]
WORT speaks with voters at the polls
Wisconsin voters cast more than double the amount of absentee ballots for this election compared with 2016. Despite that number, and the ever-present threat of COVID-19, some Madisonians still made it to the polls today to vote in person. Yesterday, WORT producer Jonah Chester and reporter Martin Rakacolli visited ten polling places throughout the greater […]
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