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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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00:53:19

Running Joyfully Toward the Future

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/24

For the last 20 years, today’s guest Rob Hopkins has organized community-led, bottom-up solutions to the climate crisis, from creating community energy companies to food systems. He joins host Esty Dinur to talk about his latest book, How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World, that draws on his career of community-based work to ask, what would our activism look like if we had a longing for the future? Featured image: cover of How to Fall in Love with the

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00:09:42

Mt Horrible House of Horror

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/24

Henry Larson joins The Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz to share the hilariously spooky story of Mount Horeb’s Mount Horrible House of Horror.

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00:10:30

Wisconsin Book Festival

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/24

Wisconsin Book Festival Director Jane Rotonda joins the Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz.

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00:17:56

Women and Gender Studies 50th

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/24

Dr. Kate Phelps joins The Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz to discuss the UW-Madison Department of Gender and Women’s Studies’ 50th anniversary.

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00:05:32

White House Demolition

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/24

An interview from The Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz has contractor Ron Constantine describing a spooooky White House renovation.

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00:26:46

Logan from Trans Medical Mutual Aid, Madison

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/24

Logan from Trans Medical Mutual Aid, Madison by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:06:31

GOP lawmakers grill education officials on...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/23

Republican lawmakers grilled Department of Public Instruction officials at an informational hearing today on teacher sexual misconduct and grooming in Wisconsin schools. The hearing comes just a week after reporting in the Cap Times exposed cracks in the system that make it difficult for state education officials to investigate allegations and hold wrongdoers accountable. Image courtesy: Brian Standing / WORT News.

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00:07:45

Transparency Talk: "Incentives Are Misaligned” for...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/23

The Cap Times recently finished a year-long investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by K-12 educators – and how administrators handle those allegations. But several school districts across the state wanted the Cap Times to pay exorbitant fees to locate the records they’d requested. This week on “Transparency Talk”, hosts Bill Lueders and Tom Kamenick discuss the often prohibitively high location fees that records custodians are allowed to charge, and how they would change the current system to

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00:04:07

Fundraising campaign for new men’s shelter officially...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/23

A new organization tasked with raising funding for the city’s new men’s shelter formally launched today. Local officials and community leaders gathered at the shelter’s Bartillon Drive construction site to outline their fundraising goals and the mission behind the project.

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00:51:38

Don’t Mistake the Gaza Ceasefire for a Peace Plan

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/23

On today’s show, host Allen Ruff speaks with friend of the program, Mouin Rabbani, about the tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and where it might lead. According to the Government Media Office in Gaza, Israeli forces have violated the terms of the ceasefire at least 80 times, killing dozens of Palestinians since the ceasefire was announced on October 10. Featured image of a 2024 Stop the Genocide protest in Helsinki, Finland via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

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00:06:06

Forecast from Wednesday 10-22-25

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/23

Forecast from Wednesday 10-22-25 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:18:35

WisconsinEye faces funding challenges

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/22

WisconsinEye, or WisEye for short, is the state’s first and only independent state Capitol broadcast network. Their small team has been providing live, unedited coverage of political proceedings since 2007 – from legislative hearings, to press conferences, to oral arguments in the state Supreme Court. Their archive, more than 14,000 hours of recordings, are available for free on their website. WisEye runs on private contributions, but like many other nonprofit organizations these days, they’re

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00:53:14

Standing Up for Equity in Education

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/22

The term “equity” is used a lot in discussions about education; but despite the initiatives that aim to improve educational disparities, there aren’t a lot of equitable solutions produced, say today’s two guests, Decoteau J. Irby and Ann M. Ishimaru editors of Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change. Their new book champions the vital work equity in P-12 education and those folks who are leading the way. Featured image of Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice

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00:20:08

buzz-10-22-25-Jared-Abbott

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/22

In a recent article on Inequality.org, "Can Democrats Win Back Rust Belt Voters?", Director for Working Class Politics, Jared Abbott, posed the question to "working class" people (defined by education, occupation, and income, in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania) "Given the same description, background, and economic policies of two imaginary candidates, one labeled "Democrat" and the other "Independent", which would you vote for -- the majority would vote for the Independent candidate

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00:18:13

buzz-10-22-25-Lindsay-Koshgarian

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/22

Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses an October 7 article posted entitled "The Health Care Emergency Behind the Government Shutdown". Koshgarian says that saving money isn't the goal of the Republicans...decimating the Federal government is. She also talks about the costs of stationing the National Guard in Washington, D. C., with the goal to remove the homeless from the streets with no plans other than to move them,

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00:51:28

Legalize It?

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/22

Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Lesley Johnson, from Madison Herb Society (no! Not that herb society!) joins to talk herbs and herbal medicine and their upcoming Herbal Fair at Olbrich Gardens. Check out the Herb Fair at Olbrich Gardens on November 1st from 10-4, more information at https://madisonherbsociety.org/annual-herb-fair. More information on House of Healing Welness Store: https://www.h3w.store/ Join Tara and more on Friday, October

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00:07:09

is it health misinformation or disinformation

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/22

There is all kind of incorrect and misleading health information out there. It’s not a new phenomenon but it has become more risky as not only social media but also some federal government sources are spreading unsubstantiated material. Her turn reporter Arlene Zaucha talks with Dr. Lenette Golding, adjunct professor of communication at Georgetown University. about what can be done. Image courtesy: Dr. Lenette Golding

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00:07:09

counter health misinformation

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/21

There is all kind of incorrect and misleading health information out there. It’s not a new phenomenon but it has become more risky as not only social media but also some federal government sources are spreading unsubstantiated material. Her turn reporter Arlene Zaucha talks with Dr. Lenette Golding, adjunct professor of communication at Georgetown University. about what can be done. Image courtesy: Dr. Lenette Golding

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00:11:30

DPI shields hundreds of teacher misconduct cases from...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/21

The state’s Department of Public Instruction investigated more than 200 educators in a five-year period for allegations of grooming and sexual misconduct against students. But the department’s scant resources, rudimentary tracking system, and a licensing loophole make it difficult to hold wrong-doers accountable. That’s according to a new investigative report from the Cap Times, which exposed the cracks in the system and has already inspired state lawmakers to take action. Investigative reporter

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00:02:54

Dane County supervisors face strong opposition to...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/10/21

At a public hearing yesterday, local nonprofits and area residents were up in arms over proposed funding cuts in the county’s 2026 executive budget. If critical services are interrupted, they warned, Dane County’s most vulnerable residents will suffer. Image courtesy: Brian Standing / WORT News.

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