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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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00:52:20

Queery Music Featuring - Flutist, Dr. Brandon LePage

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/05

Queery Music Featuring - Flutist, Dr. Brandon LePage by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:06:58

Cardinal Call: Madison community members protest I.C.E.

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/05

This week host Ted Hyngstrom speaks to Daily Cardinal Staff Writer Ellie Huber about her coverage of ICE protests in Madison.Article in this week’s “Campus News in Brief” segment: UW rises to No. 2 U.S. public university in latest TIME Magazine rankings - Avery Chheda UW student diagnosed with measles, second confirmed case in Wisconsin this year - Zoey Jiang and Cole Zich

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00:07:00

Forecast from Wednesday 2-4-26

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/05

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00:21:11

Nino Amato calls for bipartisan cooperation

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/05

Nino Amato has decades of experience in state and local government. After a term on the Madison city council and an unsuccessful run for mayor in the 1970s, Amato served under two Wisconsin governors and five Madison mayors. He made his return to local politics just a couple of years ago, in consecutive city council bids in 2023 and 2025. This spring, Amato’s running to represent the Middleton area on the Dane County Board of Supervisors. An open race after former supervisor April Kigeya stepped

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00:03:38

Wisconsin Republicans want to cut cryptocurrency red...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/04

Image courtesy of Stock Catalog via flickr

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00:53:19

The Music of Caribbean Witness

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/04

In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean to find an Edenic scene that has since been mythologized. Today on A Public Affair, host Ali Muldrow is in conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe who charts this mythology in her new book, Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis. She writes about the legacy of slavery, indentured labor, and the forced toil of Chinese and enslaved Black people who mined the Caribbean islands for the benefit of European

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00:17:33

AG Josh Kaul on Wisconsin's prep for resistance

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/04

On January 24, United States Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, demanding that the state share records on Medicaid and SNAP data, end sanctuary policies, and allow federal access to voter rolls. In response, 22 Attorney Generals, including Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, signed a letter calling the demands an intrusion on state sovereignty and individual privacy. Last week, News Director Nate Carlin spoke with AG Kaul on why he wrote the letter, and how

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00:49:19

Beautiful Alchemy

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/04

Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi, talking about beautiful alchemy, taking adversity and doing good with it. In the first half, Dr Kim Whitmore joins us to talk about the pain of losing a child and her work channeling that pain into helping others. In the second half, Dee Star from OuttaDeeBox Podcast joins us to talk about his honor today from the city of Sun Prairie, joined by Kingston Robertson from Holy Godz Clothing to talk about coming from incarceration to

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00:06:04

Wisconsin Democrats renew call for legalized marijuana

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/03

More than a month after it went dark due to a lack of funding, WisconsinEye resumed its coverage of state government proceedings yesterday.Returning to the spotlight with a familiar proposal, Democratic state legislators announced their latest attempt to legalize cannabis in Wisconsin. Image courtesy: Senator Chris Larson via X, shows Rep. Darrin Madison (D-Milwaukee) at Monday’s press conference.

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00:54:40

Everstrong Housing Program Sets Up Youth for Success

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/03

On today’s show, host Dana Pellebon is in conversation with SkyeGia Garcia and DaMontae January who work for OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center. They discuss their work and the larger issue of housing in Dane County, especially for disenfranchised youth. Featured image: of DaMonte January, Dana Pellebon, and SkyeGia Garcia.

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00:08:30

How is climate change impacting Wisconsin's fish...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/03

Ocean temperatures are on the rise. And a recent study by Penn State University concluded that temperatures in many American rivers and streams are also going up. Dr. Greg Sass is the fisheries research team leader with the Wisconsin DNR’s Office of Applied Science. This week on “Water Stories,” he joins host Greg Michaud to explain how temperature changes, drought conditions, and ice cover has impacted Wisconsin's fish population. Image courtesy: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

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00:08:28

“The dream dies hard for farmers”

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/03

Predictions were dire at this year’s Agricultural Outlook Forum, hosted late last month at UW-Madison. Wisconsin corn and soybean farmers could see heavy losses in 2026 – and consumer demand will be the deciding factor for the American beef industry. Pete Hardin and Bert Zipperer explain why experts are sounding the alarm, in this edition of “The Milkweed.” Image courtesy: Caroline Gunderson via Unsplash.

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00:04:03

Madison Mixology: Brandy Alexander

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/02

This week on “Madison Mixology,” feature contributor Charlie Belawski shows us how to make a Brandy Alexander. He’ll give the sweet, three-ingredient beverage a taste – and teach us about some of its best known references in pop culture.

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00:25:33

Gandhi and Nonviolence in a Violent Time

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/02

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an internationally known Iranian-Canadian philosopher known for his intellectual work and his efforts to foster constructive dialogue and for his advocacy for social and political change based on principles of non-violence. Professor Jahanbegloo lectures widely and he’s also a prolific writer of books and articles in French, English and Farsi. We invited him to talk with us because January 30th was the anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination in 1948 and Jahanbegloo is a

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00:54:09

Microcolleges Build Resilient and Responsible Students

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/02

On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes is in conversation with Jacob Hundt of Thoreau College in Viroqua and Grace Greenwald of the SpringBoard Foundation. They explore how the growing microcollege movement is becoming the antidote to the crisis in higher education. Contrary to the transactional, consumer-oriented nature of traditional education, microcolleges are place-based with small student bodies where students’ education includes manual labor and community building. Featured image of farmland

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00:08:49

Forecast from Monday, 2-2-26

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/02

Forecast from Monday, 2-2-26 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:09:58

Yid Vicious Celebrates 30 Years: Live on the Monday Buzz

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/02

Thirty years ago today, in a howling snowstorm, Madison’s hardest-working klezmer band, Yid Vicious got its start. The band plays live in the WORT studios to celebrate!

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00:12:06

Historical Perspective on National Guard and Federal...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/02

With Governor Tim Walz deploying the Minnesota National Guard to Minneapolis, what’s the risk of armed conflict between the state and federal governments? John W. Hall gives us a historical perspective.

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00:14:55

MN Immigrant Rights Activists at Center of Resistance...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/02

Minnesota Immigration Rights Action Coalition co-founder Erika Zurawski tells how they’ve prepared for years for the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Metro Surge.”

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00:13:50

Board of Health to revisit harm reduction center...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/02/02

The city-county Board of Health is slated to revisit a much-debated proposal to fund a new harm reduction center. That’s just one item on this week’s busy calendar in local government. Hosts Brenda Konkel and Rebecca Kemble have the rundown, in this edition of “Forward Lookout.”

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