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Looking at the Student Loan Debt Crisis

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In the United States right now, student loan debt is second only to home mortgage debt. How did we get here? With another school year starting off, we thought we’d take a close look at just how much university education costs in America—and what that price tag is doing to student borrowers, the economy, and […]

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 […]