Today was the 2025 WAVE Day of action for gun violence prevention, and advocates gathered in the State Capitol for a press conference to discuss strategies and persuade lawmakers to join them.

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Amb. Tom Loftus, "Mission to Oslo" by WORT 89.9FM Madison

Wisconsin Republicans gathered this weekend for their annual state party convention. Their mission: deciding on their priorities for the next year and finding consensus on a party platform.

A lot is at stake for the state’s GOP, as they struggle to match national successes on the local level. As a solution, speakers this weekend repeatedly emphasized the importance of unifying behind President Donald Trump.

Abigail Leavins, a reporter at WisPolitics (and former WORT volunteer), made the trip up to central Wisconsin this weekend to cover the convention. She joined our News Producer Faye Parks in studio this afternoon to give us a rundown on what happened.

Image courtesy: Abigail Leavins / WisPolitics.

Madison Public Library marks 150 years of service this month. They’re celebrating the anniversary with a series of events across the city, including one on Saturday that kicked off with a mini-parade in downtown Madison.

Image courtesy: Madison Public Library via their website.

This week on “Madison Mixology,” we take a trip to Prohibition-era London to learn about a Dram-based cocktail.

Feature Contributor Charlie Belawski teaches us how to make the “Lion’s Tail,” a spiced drink with ties to Tiki Culture and the Cocktail Renaissance.

On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes speaks with Dr. Michelle Robinson about the Madison Forward Fund 2.0, which was recently unveiled by the Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness. The “guaranteed income” program will focus on maternal-child health and support 42 families, each getting $500 a month for 12 months. This program builds off of the Madison Forward Fund that ran from 2022 to 2023.

Featured image: a graph of net personal wealth from the World Inequality Database via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forecast from Monday, 5-19-25 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

Gil Halsted talked with Amanda Gennerman, Esq., a very experienced and now very busy immigration lawyer about the situation migrants face in our community given the fast-changing and sometimes little known laws and regulations concerning their status and presence here in the US.

With the US government priority the enforcement of quickly changing and contradictory laws, it’s important for migrants to get good information about status and rights.

Amanda helped establish the Community Immigration Law Center, known as CILC, here in Madison that offers free help for immigrants looking to clarify their options and status in the US at this moment.

Her best advice is to get good information, whether it’s with a private, licensed immigration attorney or from CILC or another community service.

Here are some resources:

Community Immigration Law Center, CILC http://www.cilcmadison.org/

(608) 640-4444 Includes a list of trusted immigration lawyers on the “Services” page

University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School Immigrant Justice Clinic http://law.wisc.edu/eji/ijc/ (608) 890-3753

Catholic Multicultural Center Immigration Legal Services https://cmcmadison.org/immigration-legal/ (608) 441-0114

Centro Hispano http://www.micentro.org/community-resources (608) 255-3018

The Monday 8 O'Clock Buzz features a live performance by the Hunt Quartet, part of the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s “Up Close and Personal” program.

On May 19, 2025, American Civil Rights leader Malcolm X would have been 100 years old. We’ll hear two speeches from him – the first from 1964 and the second from shortly before his assassination in 1965. Audio courtesy of the Internet Archive.