Last month the USDA eliminated two programs that help schools, child care centers, and food banks buy food from local farms. This cut erased more than $1 billion in support, and a USDA spokesperson said these programs “no longer effectuates the goals of the agency.” Now, school districts and local organizations are scrambling to save these programs.

To talk about school nutrition and farm to school programs, host Douglas Haynes is joined by Erica Krug, the Farm to School Director at Rooted, Kaitlin Tauriainen is the President of the School Nutrition Association of Wisconsin, and Jennifer Gaddis, a scholar and advisory board member of the National Farm to School Network.

Featured image of lunch served at a DC public school via Wikimedia Commons.

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Broom Street Theatre's premiere of "Bloody Aftermath" skips through time and space to explore the horror-adjacent. Playwright Rob Matsushita and director Jessica Jane Witham find the comedy and pathos in B-movie fandom.

Can you really help conserve birds by eating chocolate and drinking coffee? Save Our Songbirds' Lisa Gaumnitz and Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance's Brenna Marsicek explain the connection between sweet or bitter beans and our fine feathered friends.

The Supreme Court lays down the law in a critical deportation case, but what happens if President Trump ignores the ruling? Howard Schweber, Professor Emeritus of American Politics and Political Theory, University of Wisconsin-Madison tells us what’s at stake.

This week host Ted Hyngstrom speaks to College News Editor Ella Hanley about her story “Student immigration organization offers stability in times of uncertainty through advocacy events” in a discussion of how student immigration organizations provide stability during times of uncertainty.

This week on Forward Lookout, the City is holding a nice ceremony to say farewell to outgoing Alders and welcome the new... followed that evening by an incredibly long agenda. Good luck new Alders! Hosts Brenda Konkel and Rebecca Kemble will run through that and all of this week's meetings, including, as Brenda likes to say, a lot of "report, reports, reports."

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Prison reform advocates are organizing around several goals this spring. Key among them, a shutdown of Wisconsin's oldest prisons. They shared those goals with lawmakers at the Capitol last Thursday.

WORT reporter Shayna Clark was there.