8 O'Clock Buzz

For the first time ever, the CDC’s weekly Morbidity and Mortality report includes police killings in their report, according to Justin Michael Feldman, Visiting Scientist at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Feldman says that “even though this a good start, there is no good data on police killings, period!”

He discusses the issues and suggests improvements in reporting the deaths.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and 1neofmani (Breyon Sommerville), It’s talk about it Tuesday, what’s going on around town, in the second half, Community Development Grants Supervisor for the City of Madison Linette Rhodes joins us to talk about Black home ownership in Madison, racial disparities in home ownership, what the current market means for the community, and what the city is doing about it. 

More about City of Madison Community Development programs, and City of Madison neighborhood plans.

Information and resources for homeowners and aspiring homeowners: https://cityofmadison.com/homeloans 

Information on “Own It – Building Black Weath” on https://ownitbbw.com/ 

Photo by Ken Fager on Flickr

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You, dear listeners, are a highly discerning bunch.  You get your news from reputable, independent sources like WORT.  As a community radio news consumer, you may think to yourself: “Why do so many people guzzle the pablum from partisan news outlets like Fox News?  Surely, it must be those mystical algorithms on social media that push that junk into people’s consciousness.”  As comforting as it might be to blame computer programming for the plethora of partisan talking points masquerading as news, the sad truth is, people listen to such stuff because they like it.  That’s the conclusion of a joint study from Northeastern and Rutgers Universities.  Katya Ongyanova from the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information is one of the authors of the study, and Katya joins us now by phone.

 

Image courtesy: geralt / PIXABAY

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For over a decade now, Madison Public Library’s Bubbler program has brought resident artists into neighborhood branch libraries to share their craft and art.  Now, though, the Bubbler program wants you to be the artist … and the subject.   “Our Town Everywhere” is a citywide project where you get to paint your own portrait, and have it exhibited at the library.  No experience with the visual arts, you say?  No worries, the Bubbler has you covered.  Joining us in the studio now is Carlee Latimer, Bubbler Assistant with the Madison Public Library.  

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Attorney Andrea Rodgers from Our Children’s Trust, talks about the current status of the lawsuit “Navahine v. Hawai’i Department of Transportation“, in which youth plaintiffs claim that their state DOT’s operation of a transportation system that results in high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions violates their state constitutional rights, causing them significant harm and impacting their ability to “live healthful lives in Hawaiʻi now and into the future.”

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Federal Policy Advocate, Kayla Mohammed, from Friends of the Earth, talks about how the environment is doing in debt ceiling negotiations. One of the compromises that was added to the final agreement green-lighted a permitting process for the Mountain Valley natural gas Pipeline. The proposed route covers hundreds of miles of high landslide risk areas, cuts through nationally protected forests, threatens regional waterways and clean drinking water supplies, and will add an additional 90 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere every year — equal to that of 23 new coal plants.

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Four current students at Shabazz City High School along with Steve Stuckert, a former math teacher at the school, join Tony Castañeda on the Thursday edition of the 8 O’Clock Buzz to talk about the 50th anniversary of this innovative, alternative Madison high school. Malcolm Shabazz High School, started with a grant in the early 70’s, provides a more intimate and less intimidating learning environment than most large high schools. Named after activist Malcolm X, who changed his life through education, Malcolm Shabazz City High School will host a 50th anniversary celebration on Friday, June 2 on the school grounds at 2:00. A short program at 2:30 will include presentations from past Shabazz teachers. Current and former students, teachers, and parents, along with community members, are encouraged to attend.

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Cheshire Cat Comedy is presenting a night of standup and improv comedy on Friday, June 2 at 8:00 pm in the Forward Club at Breese Stevens Field. Sasha Rosser, a data scientist by day and standup comedian in her more public life, will be MC’ing “The Comedy Machine“, and is on hand to speak with Tony Castañeda of the Thursday 8 O’Clock Buzz about the show. The show format includes three comedians doing standup routines and then three other comedians doing improv riffing off the standup routines. The producer of the Thursday edition of the 8 O’Clock Buzz, Eli Wilz, will be one of the local comedians participating in the improv session. Standup goes in, improv comes out!

Photo courtesy of Stevepb on Pixabay.

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Following the recent habit of the Supreme Court to reverse climate protections and support anti-science policies of big polluters , the Clean Water Act just lost significant coverage when the Supreme Court decided that wetlands, not connected to rivers or streams, are not protected by the Clean Water act — according to John Devine, Federal Water Policy of the National Resources Defense Council. Devine talks about the usefulness of wetlands to filter pollution, mitigate flooding, and more.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and 1neofmani (Breyon Sommerville), regional coordinator for Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Cooperative, Sonyae Green joins us to talk about their work providing business services and advice to those who face barriers in accessing business financing and training support; In the second half, talking about how Tara and Breyon came to WORT and why you should support this kind of radio.

Get in touch with Sonyae at 608-204-8901 or [email protected]

More about WBIC on their website: https://www.wwbic.com/ 

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