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WORT 89.9FM Madison

WORT 89.9FM Madison

Listener-sponsored, volunteer-powered, noncommercial community radio broadcasting to south-central Wisconsin at 89.9 FM and online at wortfm.org via our studios in Madison. We provide an outlet for communication, education, free expression, entertainment, training and access for the purpose of sharing music, information, news, and cultural experiences, and strive to give people underrepresented elsewhere in traditional media a voice. NOTE: Most of the content posted at this time are news stories

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00:12:49

Small Towns Struggle to Keep Up with State Election...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/06/02

The Wisconsin State Legislature continues to meddle with the state’s election laws, and small communities are having a hard time finding municipal clerks to run the whole election show. Votebeat Wisconsin’s Alex Shur joins us with more.

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00:04:47

Madison Mixology: Lemon Drop

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/06/02

This week on “Madison Mixology,” feature contributor Charlie Belawski takes us to San Francisco to learn about the Lemon Drop. We’ll learn about how to craft this cocktail – and find out more about “Fern Bars.”

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00:23:27

South Korean Election Preview

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/06/02

David Fields, US-South Korean relations scholar and Associate Director of the UW-Madison Center for East Asian Studies joined Gil Halsted and Amitabh Pal to discuss South Korean elections. South Koreans polls open across the country at 6:00 AM Tuesday, June 2, 2025 although more than a quarter of registered voters voted early in the preceding week. This is no usual election. It was called after conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached after he declared martial law in December. Although

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00:53:33

Building Symbiotic Relationships with Beavers

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/06/02

In Wisconsin we don’t have a shortage of beavers, despite over hunting and over trapping in the nineteenth century. But their resurgence isn’t without friction, especially as development encroaches on their environments. On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes is joined by journalist Bennet Goldstein whose recent reporting covers the ways that people are living with beavers and learning how to mitigate floods and drought from them. Featured image of a beaver in the Wisconsin Mammals exhibit at the

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00:09:45

Forecast from Monday, 6-2-25

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/06/02

Forecast from Monday, 6-2-25 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:02:36

The Past Isn't Past: Bill Moyers is almost 91

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/06/02

This Thursday, June 5th, is the 91st birthday of Bill Moyer. Raised during the Great Depression, he is still a strong advocate for progressive causes and general decency. Harry Richardson has the story. Image: President Johnson (right) meets with special assistant Moyers in the White House Oval Office, 1963. Source: LBJ Library website via Wikipedia

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00:14:30

A busy start to June

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/06/02

This week the Madison Common Council will debate starting their meetings earlier, funding for some not-so affordable housing, and review a whole lot of liquor licenses. Also Dane County considers a request to defer tariff payments for radiation treatment equipment and kicks off its 2026 budget with a public listening session. Hosts Brenda Konkel and Rebecca Kemble are together again and ready to run through all that and more on this week's Forward Lookout.

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00:09:56

SafetyNet

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/06/02

SafetyNet by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:57:00

Deep in the Spleen of Texas

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/30

This week on Mel & Floyd: A visit from “Saga”; Gardening tips and denominational distinctions; Is golf a sport or a game?; King Charles in Canada; Incoming Canadian Wall of Smoke; The “Gold IRA” scam; Driverless trucks?; Toothbrush narcs on Brit; And other random topics; Notice something missing? For the complete “Mel and Floyd Experience,” buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-fi while listening to this podcast! Or listen live at 89.9 fm or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every

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00:53:25

Resisting Nuclear Energy in Wisconsin

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/30

On today’s show, host Esty Dinur is joined by two representatives from Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) to talk about the Point Beach Nuclear Reactor in Two Rivers, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan. Amy Schulz and Alfred Meyer discuss the potential relicensing of this power plant despite the reactor being past its lifespan and how to oppose this relicensing. Featured image of the Point Beach Nuclear Plant from 1973 via Wikimedia Commons.

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00:09:17

Meriter strike

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/30

Nurse Kelsey Shaw discusses key issues behind the Meriter nurses’ strike and ongoing contract talks with SEIU on the Friday Buzz.

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00:08:39

Denise Sweet

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/30

Denise Sweet shares her new children’s book, creative routines shaped by spring, and a live reading from the Northwoods on the Friday Buzz.

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00:16:31

Asisaun Toovak

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/30

Utqiaġvik Mayor Asisaun Toovak describes life under 24-hour sunlight and the cultural rhythms of Alaska’s northernmost city.

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00:02:37

Ankurs Picks 05302025

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/30

On the Friday 8 O'Clock Buzz, Ankur Malholtra shares his picks for the best music events happening around Madison the next week.

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00:03:36

Dane County to launch food scrap drop-off program...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/29

Looking for an environmentally-friendly way to dispose of your food scraps? Starting this Sunday, you can drop them off for free at a handful of locations across the county. Image courtesy: Lenka Dzurendova via Unsplash.

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00:06:46

Madison schools in good fiscal shape...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/29

Budget planning for 2026 is underway for the Madison Metropolitan School District. Next year’s proposed spending plan was released to the public earlier this month. It includes a boost in revenue, after Madison voters approved two budget referendums in November to raise local property taxes.Nonpartisan research org Wisconsin Policy Forum released their analysis of the district’s proposed budget yesterday. Senior Research Associate Tyler Byrnes co-authored the report. He tells W-O-R-T reporter

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00:53:09

An Update from Cuba

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/29

On today’s show, host Allen Ruff speaks with three solidarity activists who recently returned from Cuba as part of a delegation to Santiago de Cuba called Levantate por Cuba. For decades, Cuba has been the target of a vindictive blockade, used as a punishment of the island’s people because they dared seize their own history and break free of neocolonialism from Washington DC and across the hemisphere. Featured image: The Cuba State Capitol (El Capitolio) in Havana via WIkimedia Commons (CC BY-SA

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00:22:54

It's Time to Stand and Deliver

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/29

Robert Craig, Executive Director of Citizen Action Wisconsin, talks with Tony Castañeda of the 8 O’Clock Buzz about a collective protest against the Republican intransigence regarding the Wisconsin State budget, and the need for Governor Evers to stand and fight for what is right.

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00:09:06

housing

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/29

Rooting Toward Housing Justice is an event that will take place this Saturday, May 31, from 12:00 to 3:00 PM at the Communication Madison space at 2646 Milwaukee Street.

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00:07:31

Forecast from Wednesday 5-28-25

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/29

Forecast from Wednesday 5-28-25 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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