Author Katherine Stewart will tell us about her new book, “Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.”

The Wisconsin Elections Commission appeals a court ruling requiring citizenship checks for voters. And who would have guessed that Representative Scott Krug would become the voice of moderation in the State GOP? Votebeat Wisconsin’s Alex Shur joins us with a state elections update.

This week on Mel & Floyd: Features of the renovated White House; SNAP benefits ending; Robot tales; 42% of Lay’s customers didn’t know potato chips are made from potatoes, about the same percentage of the public that supports trump - coincidence?; John Nolan Drive update; No Kings reviewed; Lego theft ring?; 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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City of Madison planning staff held a public feedback session on Tuesday evening for the Southeast Area development plan.

The plan is part of the city’s efforts to make development more equitable by dividing the city into 12 geographic areas. Each area will have its own development plan which will be revisited every 10 years.

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For the last 20 years, today’s guest Rob Hopkins has organized community-led, bottom-up solutions to the climate crisis, from creating community energy companies to food systems. He joins host Esty Dinur to talk about his latest book, How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World, that draws on his career of community-based work to ask, what would our activism look like if we had a longing for the future?

Featured image: cover of How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World by Rob Hopkins.

Henry Larson joins The Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz to share the hilariously spooky story of Mount Horeb’s Mount Horrible House of Horror.

Wisconsin Book Festival Director Jane Rotonda joins the Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz.

Dr. Kate Phelps joins The Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz to discuss the UW-Madison Department of Gender and Women’s Studies’ 50th anniversary.

An interview from The Friday 8 O’Clock Buzz has contractor Ron Constantine describing a spooooky White House renovation.

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