On the podcast today, the City of Madison's "Let's Talk Streets" initiative is looking for stories and opinions from diverse communities about street and neighborhood design. Plus, members of Congress are arrested at the Capitol and COVID spread is getting worse -- how much worse will it get?

It's been a big week for the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County and its CEO, Michael Johnson. Plus, Wisconsin Watch investigates the dubious claim that nobody wants to work anymore.

A business set to open this weekend in Sun Prairie is a literal dream come true. Plus, artist Jenie Gao will host an event today at noon to advocate for representation in arts, not exploitation. Finally, COVID numbers are making us worry just a bit.

Reporter Kynala Phillips joins the show today to discuss her important piece on the critical issue of Black maternal health in the Green Bay area, published this morning on Madison365.org as a part of the NEW News Lab. Plus, COVID numbers are starting to rise -- will that last?

Byron and Cristy Matthews have launched three businesses in the past year -- with a fourth on the way. Plus, the Blueprint Green Bay will bring a successful startup accelerator from Milwaukee to help grow entrepreneurship in Northeast Wisconsin, the Bucks get a big win and more.

In the final part of our series on incarceration after COVID, we hear from advocates on whether they believe county officials who say they want the reduction in the Dane County Jail population to be permanent. Plus, another big boost for the Boys and Girls Club's new Skilled Trades Center.

In the second part of our series on incarceration after COVID, we look at a variety of means to reduce jail and prison populations -- and what's standing in the way. Plus, COVID numbers are looking not so good - but there might be an explanation. 

Incarceration changed dramatically at the beginning of the pandemic. Will any of those changes stick? Shereen Siewert of the Wausau Pilot & Review joins the show to talk about our collaboration as part of the After Covid project. Plus, Color in the Outdoors and its founder Christopher Kilgour work to get marginalized groups thinking different about being outside.

Latinos in Green Bay have been disproportionately affected by COVID, and we have a report on some of the reasons. Plus, Goodman Community Center's Tyrone Reese has been nominated for a nationwide honor and the Bucks are opening up more viewing options for the NBA Finals.

A Dane County grant program is providing money to artists just to get by, with no real strings attached -- and one in three of those artists is a person of color. Plus, the Bucks get a huge win and the Delta variant is on the rise in Wisconsin -- is it anything to worry about yet?