Forward Radio podcasts

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you a community conversation focused on a 2026 Kentucky Legislative Session Review with respect to Housing & Energy Bills. This EveryHome webinar was held on Monday, April 28th at 1pm (monthly on 4th Tuesdays at 1pm - on May 26th, it'll be an expert from Union of Concerned Scientists on Urban Heat Islands). Stay tuned if you're curious about what happened to housing and energy bills during the 2026 Kentucky legislative session! Forward Radio's proud community partner, the Metropolitan Housing Coalition and guests panelists from Kentucky Conservation Committee, Coalition for the Homeless, and Kentucky Resources Council discuss what did and didn't pass, and the implications for Kentucky's housing and energy future.

Speakers include: Sarah Pierce, MHC; Ashley Wilmes, KRC; Lane Boldman, KCC; George Eklund, Coalition for the Homeless, Director of Education and Advocacy; Byron Gary, KRC

- Utility Disconnection Stories: Website for Stories: https://sites.google.com/view/leavetheheaton/story-lounge

Story Collection form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12wP8GzR0bx2JgPYkOdMMaw-RnUryeXt2lVy4rgoWgks/edit

Message Line: (859) 379-5306

- KRC's Model Guidance on Data Centers: https://kyrc.org/krc-releases-data-center-model-guidance/

- League of Women Voters reports on legislative transparency: https://www.lwvky.org/how-can-they-do-that

- New study on energy burdens in Kentucky: https://aclc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Lights-Out-Report-Final.pdf

- Email Lane Boldman if you're interested in nuclear field trips: [email protected]

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://www.forwardradio.org

On this week’s Access Hour, we bring you a major highlight from the LIVE broadcast at Forward Radio's 9th birthday celebration: our keynote address by Carla Wallace, an inductee into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame due to her work launching the Fairness Campaign and Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice (LSURJ).

Thanks to everyone who came out on April 25th to celebrate Forward Radio's 9 years of broadcasting to the community! Thanks to our hosts at South Louisville Community Ministries, our inspiring guest speaker, Carla Wallace, our musicians, The Buckle Inn, and hooray for The Raging Grannies, bringing the sing-along spirit to close out the party!

If you didn't get a chance to donate to support Forward Radio, it's never too late! Please support us at https://www.forwardradio.org

The Access Hour airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Wednesday at 2pm and repeats Thursdays at 11am and Fridays at 1pm. Find us at https://www.forwardradio.org

If you’ve got something you’d like to share on community radio through the Access Hour, whether it’s a recording you made or a show you’d like to do on a particular topic, community, artistic creation, or program that is under-represented in Louisville’s media landscape, just go to https://www.forwardradio.org, click on Participate and pitch us your idea. The Access Hour is your opportunity to take over the air waves to share your passion.

K.A. Owens interviews James Bryant-Intake Coordinator, The Neighbor Network, South Louisville Community Ministries. Mr. Bryant talks about his work at the ministry.

Recorded Thursday April 30, 2026, 4PM.

Shameka Parrish-Wright is a Louisville Metro Council Woman representing District 3. She is also the director of Vocal Kentucky, a small business owner, a non-profit Executive Organizer and coalition builder. Shameka Parrish-Wright is currently running for Louisville Mayor in the non-partisan May 19th primary.

This week on Sustainability Now!, we bring you something a little different! On Earth Day, April 22nd, your host, Justin Mog, was invited to be the inaugural invited speaker at the University of Kentucky’s annual end-of-year student sustainability symposium. UK Sustainability Interns present the projects they’ve been working on throughout the year; student sustainability awards are presented; and Justin Mog was invited to speak about his experiences with community radio and connect that to his work in driving change for sustainability.

Naturally, Justin took this as an opportunity to make some radio magic, by turning the mic on the audience and conducting a little experiment in the power of storytelling for giving us hope in these dark, scary times. Tune in to hear from these inspiring students and staff engaged in driving change for sustainability at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at https://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at https://appalatin.com

A talk on how local and national gambling continues to evolve and how it impacts horse racing and Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby

Thanks to everyone who came out on April 25th to celebrate Forward Radio's 9 years of broadcasting to the community! Thanks to our hosts at South Louisville Community Ministries, our inspiring guest speaker, Carla Wallace, our musicians, The Buckle Inn, and hooray for The Raging Grannies, bringing the sing-along spirit to close out the party!

If you didn't get a chance to donate to support Forward Radio, it's never too late! Please support us at https://www.forwardradio.org

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you a conversation with Joshua W. Busby, the recipient of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. On April 14th, at UofL's Ekstrom Library, Joshua Busby was honored for his work to understand why climate change leads to negative security consequences in some places and not others. Joshua W. Busby is a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He presented these ideas in his book, “States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security.”

In the book, Busby explains how the combination of state capacity, political exclusion and international assistance determine the degree to which the impacts of climate change affect security for a country’s citizens. “The effects of pollution from burning fossil fuels have fundamentally altered our climate and will get worse until we move to cleaner energy,” Busby said. “Even as we transition away from fossil fuels, we have to prepare for climate impacts, some of which are inevitable at this point. Countries with weak government capacity, where political institutions exclude some people from power and where foreign assistance is blocked or delivered to some groups and not others are likely to have the worst outcomes, including humanitarian emergencies and violent conflict,” he said.

“But the hopeful story of my book is that the worst consequences of climate change are not inevitable. Governments, even very poor ones, can take steps to protect their populations from climate harms and prevent large-scale loss of life from exposure to climate-related extreme weather, including cyclones and droughts. With a little bit of outside help, governments have been able to reduce their vulnerability to climate disasters and concerted action can prevent climate shocks from escalating to violence.”

Charles E. Ziegler, University of Louisville professor of political science, University Scholar and director of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, said Busby’s book examines the crucial global governance topic of confronting the negative implications of climate change in the realm of security. “Busby’s carefully conducted case studies allow for comparison of neighboring states that are confronted with similar climate hazards, yet experience very different outcomes,” Ziegler said.

“The policy implications for confronting the security costs of climate change are clear and particularly timely given controversy about how to deal with the global climate crisis.” The Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order has been given annually since 1988 to those who have taken on issues of world importance and presented viewpoints that could lead to a more just and peaceful world. Each idea supports one noble cause: to inspire us all to work together for the common good. Learn more at https://grawemeyer.org/world-order/

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://www.forwardradio.org

Patty & Brian are joined live in the Forward Radio studio to encourage YOU to think critically about where your money is going and to donate to help keep Forward Radio on the air another year! We need to raise $9000 to keep WFMP broadcasting and you can help us get there now by pledging your support at https://secure.givelively.org/donate/wfmp-low-power-radio/forward-radio-s-9th-anniversary-pledge-drive

On this week’s Access Hour, we bring you a LIVE Earth Day program for Forward Radio’s 9th annual Pledge Drive focused on the threats from data centers! Joining co-hosts Bob Cline and Ruth Newman are three guests: Terrell Holder from Forward Radio’s proud community partner, the Greater Louisville Sierra Club; Robin Hall, President of Good Governance Louisville; and Martina Kunnecke, President of Neighborhood Planning & Preservation

The Access Hour airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Wednesday at 2pm and repeats Thursdays at 11am and Fridays at 1pm. Find us at https://forwardradio.org

If you’ve got something you’d like to share on community radio through the Access Hour, whether it’s a recording you made or a show you’d like to do on a particular topic, community, artistic creation, or program that is under-represented in Louisville’s media landscape, just go to https://forwardradio.org, click on Participate and pitch us your idea. The Access Hour is your opportunity to take over the air waves to share your passion.