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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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00:07:30

Big ag versus the people

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/15

Countless lawsuits over the years alleging that Roundup causes cancer have resulted in multi-billion dollar settlements. But a full-page ad in the New York Times last month pressed for the indemnification of the weed killer’s corporate manufacturers. Pete Hardin and host Bert Zipperer dissect that ad – and its connections to the Republican and Trump administration's Project 2025 agenda – in this week’s edition of "The Milkweed." Photo by Ilham Wicaksono on Unsplash

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00:31:55

Excavating the Past with Paleontologist Dave Lovelace

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/15

Dave Lovelace of UW joins us to discuss fascinating finds in paleontology and geoscience!

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00:08:08

Cardinal Call: UW-Madison Students React to Mahmoud...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

On this episode of Cardinal Call, host Oliver Gerharz speaks with Copy Chief Zoey Elwood about her article reporting on a recent UW–Madison protest: “‘We will not be intimidated into being quiet’: Activists gather at Library Mall in support of Mahmoud Khalil” Articles featured in this week’s campus news in brief segment: ‘This building has to go’: Evers visits Chadbourne Residence Hall, Mosse Humanities to hear student concerns – Zoey Elwood

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00:06:14

Bill to make gun safes tax-free has bipartisan support

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

A state Assembly committee is slated to consider a bill tomorrow that would make gun safes tax-free. The Republican-authored bill, pitched as a way to incentivize the safe storage of firearms, has bipartisan support. But it skirts around actually requiring safe storage, a requirement that’s already on the books in 26 states. State Representative Renuka Mayadev, a Democrat from Madison, is a co-author on the bill. She tells WORT News Producer Faye Parks that this bipartisan measure is a small first

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00:04:48

Wisconsin Democrats want to overturn “Citizens United”

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

State Democrats held a press conference last week on a bill that would bring the question of campaign spending directly to Wisconsin voters. The bill would put a statewide referendum on the November 2026 ballot, asking voters if Congress should overturn “Citizens United.” WORT reporter Eliot Hughes has the story Image Courtesy: Alamy Stock Photo

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00:05:00

The Past Isn't Past - Paint Creek Cabin Creek Strike

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

This Friday, April 18th is the anniversary of the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike, which took place in West Virginia from 1912 to 1913. It was one of the most violent strikes of the early twentieth century – armed conflicts between strikers and the strike-breaking Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency caused over fifty deaths. The Governor imposed a strike settlement by threatening to deport striking workers from the state. Feature contributor Harry Richardson has the story. Image: Labor organizer Mother

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00:02:04

News From A Paralell Universe #22

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

In this parallel universe, Jill Stein and the Green Party won the 2024 election in a landslide. Now President Stein, Vice-President Wald and the Green Party are working through the first 100 days of their administration and Stein is ticking off her campaign promises. This week, she turns her attention to the crisis in affordable housing.

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00:48:54

MBB_ AJ Romriell interview_mixdown

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

MBB_ AJ Romriell interview_mixdown by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:54:45

USDA Ends Farm to School Programs

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

Last month the USDA eliminated two programs that help schools, child care centers, and food banks buy food from local farms. This cut erased more than $1 billion in support, and a USDA spokesperson said these programs “no longer effectuates the goals of the agency.” Now, school districts and local organizations are scrambling to save these programs. To talk about school nutrition and farm to school programs, host Douglas Haynes is joined by Erica Krug, the Farm to School Director at Rooted,

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00:09:28

Forecast from Monday, 4-14-25

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

Forecast from Monday, 4-14-25 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:09:38

Broom Street's "Bloody Aftermath" Explores the...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

Broom Street Theatre's premiere of "Bloody Aftermath" skips through time and space to explore the horror-adjacent. Playwright Rob Matsushita and director Jessica Jane Witham find the comedy and pathos in B-movie fandom.

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00:14:09

Drink Coffee! Eat Chocolate! Save Birds!

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

Can you really help conserve birds by eating chocolate and drinking coffee? Save Our Songbirds' Lisa Gaumnitz and Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance's Brenna Marsicek explain the connection between sweet or bitter beans and our fine feathered friends.

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00:16:19

Will Trump Defy SCOTUS?

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

The Supreme Court lays down the law in a critical deportation case, but what happens if President Trump ignores the ruling? Howard Schweber, Professor Emeritus of American Politics and Political Theory, University of Wisconsin-Madison tells us what’s at stake.

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00:06:56

Cardinal Call - Student Immigration Organization...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

This week host Ted Hyngstrom speaks to College News Editor Ella Hanley about her story “Student immigration organization offers stability in times of uncertainty through advocacy events” in a discussion of how student immigration organizations provide stability during times of uncertainty.

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00:14:32

Good luck new City Alders

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

This week on Forward Lookout, the City is holding a nice ceremony to say farewell to outgoing Alders and welcome the new... followed that evening by an incredibly long agenda. Good luck new Alders! Hosts Brenda Konkel and Rebecca Kemble will run through that and all of this week's meetings, including, as Brenda likes to say, a lot of "report, reports, reports."

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00:28:10

Radio Literature: On Humour, with Jason Compton and...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

Donation Drive. Aired on 2025-02-27

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00:29:20

Radio Literature: Verses with Kit Moore, Daniel...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

Aired on 2025-03-13

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00:05:17

Advocates Push to Close Wisconsin's Oldest Prisons,...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

Prison reform advocates are organizing around several goals this spring. Key among them, a shutdown of Wisconsin's oldest prisons. They shared those goals with lawmakers at the Capitol last Thursday. WORT reporter Shayna Clark was there.

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00:09:27

BlackInventorsPoetryInMotion

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/14

BlackInventorsPoetryInMotion by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:57:00

The World’s Biggest Hillbilly Nation

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/04/11

This week on Mel & Floyd: Again with the films!; Action WIsconsin attempting to get film making incentives through the state legislature; Talk about tariffs; How to “turn gay” at the airport; Gold Mussolini-esque pins for cabinet members; St Peters papal pop-up; Volcano watch in Alaska; trump’s delusion about coal miners; Hero rat in Cambodia; And other random topics; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and never miss another episode [Unless the power goes off again] – It’s FREE!;

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