Community leader Reverend Dr. Alex Gee has been extra busy lately. He continues to produce his award-winning podcast, Black Like Me, and recently he announced a new Center for Black Excellence and Culture to be built on Madison’s south side. Today on the show, Ali Muldrow gets a chance to catch up with Dr. Gee […]
Jenny Holzer’s Art Comes to Madison, with election twist
Story by Martin Rakacolli. Photos and videos, unless otherwise credited, courtesy Chali Pittman/WORT News. New York conceptual artist Jenny Holzer has made a career out of provocative, meditative short words and phrases in public. Holzer frequently utilizes projections and billboard-like displays, including screens with LED lights. She has been working since the late 1970s, […]
Mayor Rhodes-Conway releases 2021 Proposed Operating Budget
The City of Madison was facing a $25 million shortfall going into this year’s budget season. Some of that — about ten million — is due to revenue lost from the pandemic. But more — fifteen million dollars — exists from a structural gap, where the city spends more than it makes. In Mayor Satya […]
Podcast Mini: Democracy in the Park
Today on the show, Monday host Patty Peltekos and co-pilot Yuri Rashkin learn about the Democracy in the Park program with Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl. Democracy in the Park is an event where Madison voters can register to vote and return their absentee ballots securely to official poll workers at over 200 parks throughout […]
Finance Committee Recommends Body Camera Pilot Program to Madison Coun...
Yesterday, the Madison Finance Committee recommended allocating more than $80,000 in next year’s capital budget to go toward a body camera pilot program. The program was suggested as an amendment by Alder Barbara Harrington-McKinney, who says she wanted to be proactive, in advance of a city committee currently studying the issue. “I wanted to be […]
Natural Resources Board Delays Implementing PFAS Standards
Nearly two-thirds of Wisconsin’s 744 fire departments are storing foam that contain harmful chemicals known as PFAS, according to a state Department of Natural Resources survey conducted this spring. The survey estimates that disposing of the foam could cost millions of dollars. PFAS chemicals are known as forever chemicals, because they linger in the environment […]
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