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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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00:29:46

Gregg Potter & guest Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford's...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/24

Gregg Potter & guest Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford's Master Class in Transformation by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:06:42

Maggie Siddiqi radio version - long

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/24

Interview with Maggie Siddiqi on the role of faith groups in protecting democracy. Aired on WORT's WORT's How to Stand Up for Democracy

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00:03:53

City seeks feedback on first phase of Madison LakeWay...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/23

City staff and private consultants are soliciting feedback on the first phase of the Madison LakeWay project, which seeks to reimagine the Lake Monona shoreline. A public information meeting Monday saw massive turnout, with many of the participants questioning a controversial vote last week in the city council. Image courtesy: Madison LakeWay via their website.

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00:05:35

Senator Tammy Baldwin introduces legislation to lower...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/23

Senator Tammy Baldwin has introduced legislation that aims to cut costs in three key areas: housing, childcare, and household goods. The senator detailed the legislation’s benefits in a press conference today. Image courtesy: Erik Schwerdtfeger / WORT News.

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00:08:47

New report details climate change impacts in Great...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/23

Extreme weather, declining ice cover, toxic algae blooms – the Great Lakes region is already feeling the effects of climate change. Leading university researchers teamed up in 2019 to outline current and projected impacts, in an assessment published by the Environmental Law and Policy Center. The center released earlier this month their 2025 update to that assessment. The twenty-page document outlines what’s changed in the last six years and predicts yet more significant changes for the region

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00:52:21

Is it Satire or Reality?

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/23

Today, host Ali Muldrow is joined by comedian Andrew Wegleitner to talk about how comedy is more important than ever. Wegleitner has been doing stand up for 15 years and got his start right here in Madison, WI. He’s coming back to town to record his debut comedy special on August 3 at the Bur Oak. Wegleitner talks about how he got his start in comedy, doing stand up at The Pub and Comedy on State. He says that Madison has a very welcoming scene for new comedians. Nevertheless it’s challenging to

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00:02:53

New Residential Speed Limits Across Madison

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/23

The city of Madison is rolling out a new portion of its “Vision Zero” initiative designed to eliminate all traffic deaths. It’s called “Twenty is Plenty” and focuses on controlling vehicle speeds in the city’s residential neighborhoods. Image courtesy of Nate Carlin and the WORT News Department

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00:22:14

buzz-7--23-25-Bing-Li

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/23

Caution: This interview contains some graphic descriptions of traumatic injuries of victims of Israeli attacks in Gaza. Over 170 charities call for end to deadly new Gaza aid distribution system” about the U.S. government funded so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” — described as overseeing “a killing field” by an Israeli soldier. Dr. Bing Li, a volunteer for Doctors Without Boarders and currently in eastern Ukraine, talks about her first-hand emergency medicine experience in the Indonesian

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00:20:10

buzz-7--23-25-Amy-Freidig

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/23

Do you enjoy working with plants? Do you have a green thumb, or do your plants (indoors or outdoors) just die for no apparent reason? If you want to learn more and improve your chances of success, you might want to consider taking the self-paced on-line course from the UW Extension, Department of Horticulture course "Growing and Caring for Plants in Wisconsin: FOUNDATIONS IN GARDENING". Course Moderator, Amy Freidig, talks about the course, who might want to take it -- a science-based class to learn

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00:02:01

News From the Backyard Universe 27

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/23

This week features the sounds of the Gray Catbird, the Blue-winged Warbler and some noisy Crows.

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00:48:00

Heavy on the C-H, not S-H-A

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/23

Today on the too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Chakari Daezhare joins us to talk about what she’s been up to and what’s going on around town, from her burlesque and music to tubing and swimming to Antoine’s nickname and Karen Wilhelmi. Catch Chakari at the Next Level Festival on August 2nd or Rigby on August 20th. Going on around town: - Check in with Urban League at https://ulgm.org/ for their gatherings and information on the Black Men’s Resource Luncheon,

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00:08:34

Online data tracker helps identify areas of need in...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/22

The city of Madison is adding more housing units to the market, but not enough to meet demand and lower prices. That’s according to the latest data update from the city’s Neighborhood Indicators Project, a collaborative project with UW-Madison’s Applied Population Lab. The free, online tool tracks metrics like transportation access, health, and public safety at the neighborhood level. Sitting down with WORT News Producer Faye Parks, city planner Urvashi Martin explains how city staff and

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00:50:55

Are our voting rights being protected by the SAVE Act?

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/22

On today’s show, guest host Dana Pellebon breaks down a piece of legislation called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act with two immigration experts, Cecilia Gillhouse and Huma Ahsan. The SAVE Act would require that voters provide proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. The purpose of this law is to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting and eliminate voter fraud. It is already against the law for non-citizens to vote in federal and state elections and voter fraud is

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00:10:36

ARIA CODES #3 Queen of the Night

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/22

Aria Codes Ava Borelli interviews Dr. Melanie Cain Queen of the Night

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00:10:29

Savoyards Ava Borelli 2025

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/22

Ava Borelli talks to Michael Bruno of Savoyards on 7-24-25

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00:08:52

Wisconsin State Journal removes article for...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/21

A story featured in the Wisconsin State Journal was removed and re-reported last week – after the paper’s staff discovered that their local government reporter had used artificial intelligence without authorization. The original article, published as part of the Sunday issue on July 13, covered development plans for a vacant lot in downtown Madison. It was full of misinformation and outright fabrications. Jason Joyce, publisher of Isthmus newspaper, broke the story. He joined our News Producer

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00:05:59

Former Madison clerk broke election laws, Wisconsin...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/21

193 absentee ballots from three city of Madison wards were left uncounted in the November election, despite being returned properly to election officials. A scathing report from the state elections commission places the blame squarely on former city clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl. But discussion of the election snafu is far from over. Image courtesy: Chali Pittman / WORT News.

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00:53:02

Dean Robbins, "Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/21

Dean Robbins, "Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed the State, the World, and Me" by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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00:04:47

Tuskegee Experiment Expose: 1972

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/21

July 25th is the anniversary of the 1972 expose of the forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. A government whistleblower leaked documents proving two hundred poor African American men in Alabama with syphilis were not told they had the illness and were denied treatment so doctors could study syphilis’s effects. The study continued even after the cure, penicillin was developed in the 1940s. Image: Group of men who were test subjects in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments. Image Courtesy: Department

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00:10:54

Forecast from Monday, 7-21-25

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/07/21

Forecast from Monday, 7-21-25 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

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