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Taking a Look at WORT’s Financials

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Want to learn how your pledge dollars are being used here at the station? How much it costs to keep our transmitter running? What we’ve got planned to develop the station, and how much it’ll cost? Or how we’re avoiding a crisis that’s happening at other community radio stations? In this show, Esty Dinur takes […]

Wisconsin State Supreme Court Candidates Discuss Election

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Did you know tomorrow is Election Day? Who’s on the ballot?  Candidates for the State Supreme Court. Justice Michael Gableman is retiring, leaving the first open seat on the court in decades. Three people are vying for the seat. Two are county judges. One is an attorney.  WORT News Director Molly Stentz spoke with Middleton […]

Free Speech Forum

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This month the UW Board of Regents approved a resolution that allows UW students who have “dismiss[ed] the expressive rights of others” to be suspended after having done so twice, and expelled after having done so three times. And — today the white supremacist Richard Spencer is scheduled to speak on the University of Florida campus […]

Proposed Budget Cuts Put Public Media on the Chopping Block

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Public Broadcasting act.  Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act into law, saying: It announces to the world that our Nation wants more than just material wealth; our Nation wants more than a “chicken in every pot.” We in America have an appetite for […]