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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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01:05:37

Black and Asian Feminists Imagine A Better World...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/11

On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow is in conversation with two of the editors of We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, Rachel Kuo and Jaimee A. Swift. They discuss the challenging, contemplative, and moving essays that chart the long history of Black and Asian women in coalition and how these communities have, at times, been pitted against each other. Featured image of the cover of We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, available from

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00:47:51

Sometimes Words Are All We Have

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/11

Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Jackie “Brodean” Morris is back in the studio to talk about the upcoming third edition of his magazine, Women’s history month, finding clothes that fit, some serious talk about aggression and the power of words, and always lots of laughs and good times! For information on and to contribute to the magazine – “for the ladies” – contact Jackie or Tara through Facebook. Don’t miss Antoine’s 10th anniversary Poetry and

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00:13:05

Water quality a top priority, Paula Brandmeier says

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/10

Paula Brandmeier, a newly-retired airline captain and United States Air Force veteran, is running this spring to represent the Sun Prairie area on the Dane County Board. She’ll face off against incumbent supervisor Jeff Weigand in the April 7th election. Also a member of the Token Creek Conservancy Committee, Brandmeier told our News Producer Faye Parks last week that she’d be an advocate for water quality and sustainable growth on the county board. Image courtesy: Paula Brandmeier.

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00:05:21

Wisconsin’s childhood vaccination rate continues...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/10

Lack of access and misinformation are to blame for Wisconsin's declining early childhood vaccination rate, state health officials said Monday. They’re turning to community partners to stop the trend. Image courtesy: Mufid Majnun via Unsplash.

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00:15:25

Common Council District 8 Candidate: Ellen Zhang

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/10

Sophomore Ellen Zhang says she wants to see more students brought into politics because the campus area sees the most housing and health code violations as well as police calls of any district. She discusses her position on affordable housing, including the need for more options for renters to become homeowners and the need for more public-private partnerships. Her interest in politics was shaped by her immigrant parents and her love of talking to people in the community. Featured image: remix of a

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00:15:27

Common Council District 8 Candidate: Bobby Gronert

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/10

Sophomore Bobby Gronert is running as a socialist who wants democracy in both the political and economic realms. He decided to run after the Common Council decision to decommission the Dairy Drive housing community. He wants to see Amtrak expand to Madison, more legal protections for tenants, public control over utilities, and increased student activity in politics. Featured image: remix of a photo of Bobby Gronert with the Madison Common Council district map by Sara Gabler/WORT.

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00:10:21

Stuff Yer Face: Lindsay Christians of The Cap Times

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/10

On this week’s Stuff Yer Face, feature contributor Emily Tucker sits down with Lindsay Christians, Food and Culture Editor for the Cap Times. They dig into what's exciting Lindsay in Madison's dining and drink scene, the line between food criticism and food journalism, and how she shakes things up in the kitchen.

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00:12:45

Dane County has a spending problem, incumbent Jeff...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/09

By day the manager at a local health insurance company, incumbent Jeff Weigand has represented the Sun Prairie area on the Dane County Board since 2021. He’s running for reelection this spring and faces one challenger: Paula Brandmeier. District 20 voters will elect their next county supervisor on April 7th. Sitting down with our News Producer Faye Parks last week, Weigand argued that the Sheriff’s Department should be first in line for county funding. Image courtesy: Jeff Weigand.

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00:24:29

Frieda Werden’s Radio History on International...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/09

Norm Stockwell, publisher of The Progressive Magazine with a distinguished history in community radio himself, interviewed Frieda Werden, a pioneer of women’s community radio. She spoke about the trajectory of her career which began with a series on women writers and a series on homosexuality at a college radio station in Texas, to NPR in New York, working on a docudrama about women writers. She moved to San Francisco and with a grant from NPR’s satellite program development fund developed and

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00:13:27

Cardinal Call: UW-Madison Dance Department Celebrates...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/09

This week, host Ellie Huber speaks with campus staff writer Olivia Zimmerman about UW-Madison’s dance department reaching its one-hundredth anniversary this year. UW-Madison also hosted ex-NBC News chief Andy Lack to talk opening up civil dialogue among opposing viewpoints, and legislators look to nuclear energy to support state data centers.

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00:03:15

Madison Mixology: Peach Bellini

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/09

This week on “Madison Mixology,” we fly out to Venice to learn about the Italian Peach Bellini, and the many different purees you can use to tweak it to your liking. Feature contributor Charlie Belawski has the ins and outs of this I-B-A cocktail – and how it spread to popularity around the world.

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00:09:53

Forecast from Monday, 3-9-26

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/09

Forecast from Monday, 3-9-26 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:54:21

Healing the Crisis of Isolation in Higher Ed

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/09

On today’s show, we’re flipping the script. Producer Sara Gabler interviews Monday host, Douglas Haynes, about his new book, Teaching Toward Slow Hope: Place-Based Learning in College and Beyond. If you listen to this show regularly, you know that Haynes is a Professor of English and cares deeply about the state of higher education in Wisconsin and beyond. His book is an ode to the hopeful and resilient educational practices at work across the Midwest in places like UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee,

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00:20:38

“The 31 million-dollar hole is looking pretty deep”

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/09

With a multimillion dollar deficit still looming, Dane County leaders are already planning ahead for the next budget cycle. Rebecca Kemble and Brenda Konkel detail the busy week ahead in county and city government, in this edition of “Forward Lookout.”

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00:10:11

Astria Suparak Presents "Asian Futures Without Asians"

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/09

Performance artist Astria Suparak critiques science fiction cinema and other mass media depictions of Asian culture. UW Art Professor Helen Lee talks about Suparak's vision.

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00:11:04

Bonobos' "Make-Believe" Play Challenges Assumptions...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/09

Humans guard their cognitive traits very jealously, but new research suggests that animals have more complicated inner lives than previously thought. University of South Alabama cognitive psychologist Heidi Lyn joins us with more.

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00:12:36

Federal Regulations Put the Squeeze On Cannabis Market

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/09

The U.S. Federal Government moves to restrict -- again -- the sale of cannabis and hemp products. Cannabis retailer Cam Newberry of Dank of America talks about how the Fed's on-again, off-again regulations might affect their business.

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00:07:58

The Beef with Argentinian beef

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/08

The consumption of beef is holding steady here in the United States, despite our nation’s dwindling cattle herd. Pitched as a way to bring down prices, President Trump issued a recent executive order to increase imports of Argentinian beef. It’s unclear if this imported beef will be properly labelled or go through the same quality checks before it hits the shelves. Pete Hardin and Bert Zipperer take a closer look, in this edition of “The Milkweed.” Photo by Justus Menke on Unsplash

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00:08:19

The Beef with Argentinian beef

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/08

The dwindling American beef herd has not affected the consumption of beef in the United States. With Donald Trump’s executive order to increase imports of Argentinian beef, Pete and Bert wonder about the quality of the beef consumers will see and if the imported beef will be properly labeled as imported from Argentina. Photo by Justus Menke on Unsplash

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00:53:32

It’s All Crypto Now

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/03/07

This week on Mel & Floyd: It’s pledge time at WORT and Mel & ‘Pants are selling plenary indulgences [Melania coin not accepted]; A visit from Esty; The latest war polling [it’s not popular]; The best day of the week; Is Cuba next?; Stephen Miller: trouble in paradise?; Another Luna-tic from Florida; Hell’s zoning board; 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

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