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David Pouncey discusses Madison’s annual SPAM Carving Contest, its history, bizarre creations, and SPAM’s cultural legacy.

The Guy Who Can’t Say Goodbye returns and critiques Elliot’s vacation...

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

Todd Cambio discusses rare Italian folk recordings and preserving cultural traditions.

A gilded ballroom at the White House may cost taxpayers a billion dollars because Congress is proposing to add this amount to the millions already promised from private donors.

Millions of dollars taken from the budget of the Forest Service are going toward painting the reflecting pool in Washington DC instead of hiring and training forest fire fighters.

Not to mention the billions going toward the war in Iran.

If a budget demonstrates values and priorities, then what does the federal budget say about us? Her Turn reporter Arlene Zaucha recently spoke with Lindsay Koshgarian, director of The National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Their recently released report issued a “tax receipt” to show what the average taxpayer paid in 2025 for various items in the federal budget. For more information about the group, or to see your tax receipt, you can check out their website

Graphic courtesy of Lindsay Koshgarian

Gov. Evers’ legal battle with the state legislature over agency rulemaking is far from over. Just last week, a Dane County Circuit Court judge handed Evers another victory that put power back in the hands of state agencies.

In this episode of Legal Brief, WORT feature contributor Fiona Hatch takes a look at one of the most important cases in this battle so far – one that had big implications for the separation of powers in Wisconsin.

Gov. Evers’ legal battle with the state legislature over agency rulemaking is far from over. Just last week, a Dane County Circuit Court judge handed Evers another victory that put power back in the hands of state agencies.

In this episode of Legal Brief, WORT feature contributor Fiona Hatch takes a look at one of the most important cases in this battle so far – one that had big implications for the separation of powers in Wisconsin.

WisconsinEye, or WisEye for short, is the state’s first and only independent state Capitol broadcast network. Their small team has been providing live, unedited coverage of political proceedings since 2007 – from legislative hearings, to press conferences, to oral arguments in the state Supreme Court.

But the network is running low on funds and in danger of shutting down this summer. Co-founder Jon Henkes joined our News Producer Faye Parks to explain how state lawmakers and private donors can help them stay afloat.

Image courtesy: Chali Pittman / WORT News.

A compromise plan to spend Wisconsin’s projected surplus died in the Senate last night, despite bipartisan support in the state Assembly. The plan, brought forward by Governor Evers and Republican legislative leaders, would have spent nearly two billion dollars on school funding and lower taxes.

Image courtesy: Brian Standing / WORT News.