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The recent “Inflation Reduction Act” has just taken a bite out of corporate greed. In addition to the 15% tax on corporate profits, an additional 1% tax — resulting in $74 billion over 10 years — has been created to dissuade stock buybacks, according to Natalia Renta, Senior Policy Counsel at Americans for Financial Reform, in her recent article “Congress Takes Historic Step to Tax Stock Buybacks:

This provision of the Inflation Reduction Act will discourage corporations from siphoning resources from worker wages and productive investments for share repurchases that inflate CEO pay.”

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Several conservative groups in conjunction with ALEC, playing the long game for a power grab in the U. S., have been quietly gaining support of state legislatures for votes to re-write the constitution. Looking for a system which would give hand-picked state delegates a supermajority, they are working to limit federal power and give voters no role in selecting delegates to the electoral college (if that even would exist). Arn Pearson, Executive Director of Center for Media and Democracy, talks about the issues and possible outcomes, should this happen.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Aaron Perry and Dr. Alvin Thomas, Actor, Writer, Comedian, and Director Dannon Green joins us from Los Angeles to talk about what’s going on and his latest projects!

More on Dannon’s career: https://filmfreeway.com/DannonGreen and https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337753/

Follow Dannon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dannongreen66/ 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Shifting Gears Dance Festival Takes Over Bike Paths

Madison is known both as one of America’s most bike-friendly cities, and as a hotbed for performing arts. The Shifting Gears dance festival, now in its second year, seeks the intersection of those two traits, with free dance performances along Madison’s bicycle paths. On September 5th from noon to 6, dancers from 18 area troupes will perform at Olin, Brittingham, Wirth Court and McPike Park – all accessible by bicycle. The event is sponsored by the Isthmus Dance Collective. Collective President Erica Pinigis and Vice-President Juan Carlos joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on August 15, 2022.

To volunteer for the Shifting Gears Dance Festival, fill out the online form.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · How To Navigate Moving Day Chaos

For reasons lost to the shrouds of time, annual apartment leases in the City of Madison universally expire on August 14th and new leases are signed on August 15th. The result is a chaotic 24-hour period of temporary homelessness for thousands of Madison residents, known as Moving Day. As Moving Day descends upon the city once again, we bring tenants some advice about how to protect their rights. WORT listeners know Carousel Bayrd as the Wednesday host of A Public Affair. When she’s not on air, Carousel is a Housing Rights attorney at Community Justice Inc. and was the Program Chair and Lead Presenter of “Keeping Up With Constant Change: Residential Housing in Wisconsin” for the State Bar of Wisconsin. Carousel Bayrd joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on August 15, 2022.

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While much of the press covering the recently-passed “Inflation Reduction Act” talks about the long-term reduction to U. S. greenhouse gases, a huge benefit for drug costs (where the U. S. pays the highest in the world, and new drug launch prices have increased by 20% per year for the past 15 years) will be the ability for the U. S. to negotiate prices for Medicare recipients. Peter Maybarduk, Director of the Access to Medicine Program at Public Citizen talks about this huge consumer benefit.

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From figure skater to drug addict to sex worker to inmate to award-winning criminal justice journalist with The Marshall Project — such is the life of Keri Blakinger, as she writes in her recent book “Corrections in Ink: A Memoir“. Described as a “riveting journey” by reviewers, Blakinger talks with Jan Miyasaki about her life and the making of the book.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Aaron Perry and Dr. Logan Edwards, Tamara Mouw, Mark Schwingle, Kevin Ingram, Bianca Williams-Griffin, Alisia Marquez, and Alfonso Zepeda-Capistran from Department of Public Instruction join us to talk about the Love In Action Workgroup and what they’re up to to improve educational outcomes!

For more on Love In Action and other work of the Engaged Educator Coalition: https://wlresources.dpi.wi.gov/hubs/engaged and  [email protected].

More on Dr Bettina Love’s “Doing more than surviving”: https://bettinalove.com/ 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · A State Street Coloring Book

State Street has long been the commercial and cultural backbone of downtown Madison, and has been the canvas – literally and figuratively – for innumerable street artists and performers. Now, Madison artist Doug Haynes invites you to put your own stamp on Madison’s signature street, with the publication of his new State Street Coloring Book for Adults. The book features Haynes’ hand-drawn original sketches of notable State Street architecture, along with poetry and games. Doug Haynes spoke with Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on Monday, August 8, 2022.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Democratic Party Of Wisconsin Gears Up For 2022 Primary

Wisconsin’s partisan primary takes place August 8th, 2022. Wisconsin is an open primary state, which means that voters do not have to declare their party affiliation ahead of time, and can vote in one of either the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian or Constitution Party primaries. The 2022 election marks the first to use new legislative maps approved by the Wisconsin Supreme Court after the decennial federal census. There are a number of hotly contested races, including selection of the Republican candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General, as well as Democratic candidates for U.S. Senator, Lieutenant Governor, and a number of Southern Wisconsin Assembly seats. Ben Wikler has served as the elected chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin since 2019, after stints as a podcast host and Senior Advisor for MoveOn. Ben Wikler joined the Buzz on August 8, 2022.

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