This week on Mel & Floyd: A visit from “Saga”; Gardening tips and denominational distinctions; Is golf a sport or a game?; King Charles in Canada; Incoming Canadian Wall of Smoke; The “Gold IRA” scam; Driverless trucks?; Toothbrush narcs on Brit; And other random topics; Notice something missing? For the complete “Mel and Floyd Experience,” buy the CD “The Very Best of James Brown” and play it on your Hi-fi while listening to this podcast! Or listen live at 89.9 fm or wortfm.org/listen-live/ every Friday from 1 to 2 PM Central Time

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On today’s show, host Esty Dinur is joined by two representatives from Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) to talk about the Point Beach Nuclear Reactor in Two Rivers, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan. Amy Schulz and Alfred Meyer discuss the potential relicensing of this power plant despite the reactor being past its lifespan and how to oppose this relicensing.

Featured image of the Point Beach Nuclear Plant from 1973 via Wikimedia Commons.

Nurse Kelsey Shaw discusses key issues behind the Meriter nurses’ strike and ongoing contract talks with SEIU on the Friday Buzz.

Denise Sweet shares her new children’s book, creative routines shaped by spring, and a live reading from the Northwoods on the Friday Buzz.

Utqiaġvik Mayor Asisaun Toovak describes life under 24-hour sunlight and the cultural rhythms of Alaska’s northernmost city.

On the Friday 8 O'Clock Buzz, Ankur Malholtra shares his picks for the best music events happening around Madison the next week.

Looking for an environmentally-friendly way to dispose of your food scraps?

Starting this Sunday, you can drop them off for free at a handful of locations across the county.

Image courtesy: Lenka Dzurendova via Unsplash.

Budget planning for 2026 is underway for the Madison Metropolitan School District. Next year’s proposed spending plan was released to the public earlier this month. It includes a boost in revenue, after Madison voters approved two budget referendums in November to raise local property taxes.

Nonpartisan research org Wisconsin Policy Forum released their analysis of the district’s proposed budget yesterday.

Senior Research Associate Tyler Byrnes co-authored the report. He tells W-O-R-T reporter Maria Segura that Madison schools are in good fiscal shape – with a sizable cost to taxpayers.

On today’s show, host Allen Ruff speaks with three solidarity activists who recently returned from Cuba as part of a delegation to Santiago de Cuba called Levantate por Cuba. For decades, Cuba has been the target of a vindictive blockade, used as a punishment of the island’s people because they dared seize their own history and break free of neocolonialism from Washington DC and across the hemisphere.

Featured image: The Cuba State Capitol (El Capitolio) in Havana via WIkimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Robert Craig, Executive Director of Citizen Action Wisconsin, talks with Tony Castañeda of the 8 O’Clock Buzz about a collective protest against the Republican intransigence regarding the Wisconsin State budget, and the need for Governor Evers to stand and fight for what is right.