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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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00:09:13

Sasha Debevec McKenney

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/16

Poet Sasha Debevec McKenney talks teaching, creativity, and the role of art in political times on the Friday Eight O’Clock Buzz.

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00:03:18

Ankurs Picks 01162026

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/16

Ankur Malhotra shares his picks for the best music events happening around Madison the over next week.

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00:16:41

Stories Words and Images

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/16

Randall Berndt and Andy Adams discuss visual storytelling and a book launch at Madison’s Arts and Literature Laboratory.

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00:05:47

Debate continues on proposed harm reduction drop-in...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/16

Public comment was split Wednesday evening on an embattled proposal to fund a new harm reduction clinic on Madison’s far east side.Responding to pushback from city leaders and area residents, the Board of Public Health tabled the proposal last month and scheduled the hearing to allow for further discussion. Image courtesy: Brian Standing / WORT News.

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00:14:59

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WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/16

Unhoused by Design edited for awards submission

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00:07:30

Transparency Talk: “Government Control of the News,...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/16

For the past eighteen years, WisconsinEye has brought free nonpartisan coverage of state government proceedings to the public. But last month, Wisconsin’s version of C-SPAN stopped broadcasting due to a lack of funding. This week on “Transparency Talk”, hosts Tom Kamenick and Bill Lueders discuss the fallout of WisconsinEye’s shutdown, and the transparency concerns that have followed in its wake. But before we turn it over to Tom and Bill, our standard reminder that this conversation is not

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00:14:39

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WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/15

Image courtesy of Brian Standing/WORT News Department

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00:09:07

Despite referendum, MMSD faces budget uncertainty

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/15

The Madison Board of Education met earlier this week to discuss their 2026-2027 school budget. Although talks are still in the preliminary stage, district staff highlighted concerns over a possible decrease in state aid and a 14 million dollar increase in health insurance costs. For an in-depth preview of the district’s budget outlook, WORT reporter Maria Segura sat down with Bob Soldner, MMSD’s Assistant Superintendent of Financial Services. Image courtesy: Bona Ong via Flickr.

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00:53:07

The Run-up to the “Trump of Chile,” José Antonio Kast

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/15

On December 14, hard-right candidate José Antonio Kast was elected as Chile’s president with over 58% of the vote. Kast built his campaign around the promise of expelling undocumented migrants and has been called the “Trump of Chile.” On today’s show, host Allen Ruff is joined by journalist Nyki Duda to talk about the political history of Chile and what led to the election of Kast. Featured image of José Antonio Kast from 2009 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 CL).

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00:29:45

Mercury Stardust - Madison's DIY Expert - "The Trans...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/15

Mercury Stardust - Madison's DIY Expert - "The Trans Handy Ma'am" by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:06:42

Forecast from Wednesday 1-14-26

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/15

Forecast from Wednesday 1-14-26 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:08:53

Sen. Melissa Ratcliff speaks out against...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/15

Transgender people remain a favored target for conservative lawmakers on the state and national level. Hospitals and clinics that provide gender-affirming care to minors are at risk of losing critical Medicaid and Medicare dollars, under a new federal policy the Trump regime proposed last month. And a pair of Republican bills in the state Legislature are taking aim at trans and nonbinary Wisconsinites. State Senator Melissa Ratcliff, a Democrat from Cottage Grove, is a member of the Legislature’s

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00:04:41

Madison students stage walkout to protest ICE shooting

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/14

Hundreds of students from Madison East, West and surrounding middle schools walked out of class today, one week after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. Convening in the state Capitol rotunda, student organizers made speeches, led chants, and hung banners over the railings. Image courtesy: Whittaker Peters / WORT News.

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00:54:40

Mother Artists Unite!

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/14

At a time when it feels like our social fabric is being torn apart, today’s show is about the power of art to pull people back together. Host Ali Muldrow is in conversation with Issis Macias, Lesley Numbers, and Emily Popp about the current exhibit at Art + Literature Laboratory, Pulling Together: Work from Madison’s Roundhouse Studios. Featured image from the Pulling Together exhibit, courtesy of Art + Literature Laboratory.

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00:23:11

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WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/14

Michaela Hoffelmeyer is an Assistant Professor of Public Engagement in Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying how various groups access agricultural resources and how structural inequalities influence food production and environmental sustainability. She discusses how the term "family farm" only tells us about the relationship between farm owners, and nothing about farm size, scale, or practices like workplace conditions and environmental impact. The heteronormative nuclear

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00:14:03

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WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/14

Alliyah Lusuegro, Outreach Coordinator for the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses her article entitled "The Clock Is Ticking: Invest in the Planet, Not the Pentagon". Ten years after the Paris Agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions and thus global warming, the United States is spending heavily on wars and fossil fuels instead of investing in climate solutions. The military industrial complex is also extremely carbon intensive, yet the Pentagon has been

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00:53:27

Color Wherever You Are

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/14

Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Lashay The Artist joins us for the hour to talk about her story, finding your purpose, her art, braiding hair, sip and paint nights, and using art to heal and connect our community.Find out more about Lashay’s MSCR braiding classes: https://www.mscr.org/programs/arts-enrichment/adult-arts-enrichment/ More about Lashay from her feature at The Center For Black Excellence:

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00:15:38

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WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/14

The Price of Milk docuseries showcases the corporate dominance and consolidation in the dairy industry using the lens of the dairy checkoff program. Under this program, all dairy farmers across the country are obligated to pay 15 cents per 100 pounds of milk to the national and state dairy boards. Sarah Lloyd, a rural sociologist and former dairy farmer featured in the docuseries, shares that this money is then spent inequitably such that large farmers capture the benefit, while small and medium

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00:22:43

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WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/13

The Rural Democracy Initiative convened a coalition of forty groups to develop the Rural Policy Action Report, which outlines practical steps that Congress could take immediately to improve rural people’s lives, on issues such as affordable healthcare and supporting small businesses. It includes a scorecard that documents progress and rollbacks made since the first report was released in 2021.

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00:05:43

City council to weigh 12-month data center moratorium

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2026/01/13

The city of Madison wouldn’t be able to approve any new data center construction for the next year, in a temporary moratorium that earned the Plan Commission’s unanimous approval yesterday. Image courtesy: Brian Standing / WORT News.

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