This week on Stuff Yer Face, Emily Tucker talks pasties with the owner of Teddywedgers, Anthony Rineer. Situated in the 400-square-foot triangle space at the top of State Street, they've been cranking out savory hand-held pockets of pastry since the 70s. Listen in to hear how they do it.

Sunday was NOT a normal day at World View. We had no news for listeners, but we did have a special panel of five Third World View and World View veterans and current members to help celebrate WORT’s 50 Years in Your Ears, the community of WORT volunteers, listeners and donors that have made this station great.

We had Norman Stockwell, the ultimate WORT and World View veteran and continuing member of the collective leading the panel as well as Professor Marc Becker zooming in from Missouri, Stephen Mikesell just back from Kathmandu, current interview host Gil Halsted and Allen Ruff now of A Public Affair on WORT in the studio.

We asked listeners to celebrate with us by pledging new or continued support of WORT and enough of them pledged online to convince us that they share our love for community radio and are willing to begin and continue their support.

Norm guided us all through the years of TWV/WV that began in the spring of 1976 with stories covered from around the world and some from right here in Madison. We celebrated seeing and hearing each other talk about the good old days and the good new days when our community gathered around - and still does - to make WORT one of the best.

So thank you to all who joined us and if you didn’t hear it while it was on, please have a listen here. It was a good old time had by all.

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The value of butter in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has dropped by half since September of last year. This may be good for the consumer…but the butter and cheese industries are taking a big hit, losing out on millions of dollars. Meanwhile China, who in the past imported about a third of our soybean crops, has not purchased any soybean at all this season. 

Pete Hardin and Bert Zipperer talk about these falling markets and how farmers and consumers will be affected in this edition of “The Milkweed.”

Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash

Alcohol-induced deaths are on the decline here in Wisconsin after a significant spike during the pandemic. But Wisconsin’s rates remain higher than the national average, despite those rates being nearly identical fifteen years ago.

Black Wisconsinites are also at higher risk than their counterparts across the country and women in the state have experienced a noticeable increase in recent years.

That’s according to a new report from nonpartisan research organization Wisconsin Policy Forum. WORT reporter Gabriel Gibbons sat down with Mark Sommerhauser, their communications director and policy researcher, to learn more about their findings.

Image courtesy: Prateek Katyal / UNSPLASH

This week on "Madison Mixology”, feature contributor Charlie Belawski takes us to Alabama to try an alcoholic lemonade with an unexpected flavor.

He’ll teach us the ins and outs of the Lynchburg Lemonade – and the drink’s long history of lawsuits.

50 years ago, not only was WORT hitting the airwaves for the first time, but a combo out of Sweden called ABBA was lighting up the charts. This month, MANIA, the ABBA tribute brings the experience to the Barrymore. We’ll talk with singer musician and Frida portrayer, Melissa Harding.

Youth protests against corruption and elitism are erupting all over the globe. In Nepal, protestors toppled the government. We’ll talk with economist and Kathmandu Post columnist Bhojraj Poudel.

We regularly feature ecology and environment stories on this program, stories that you may not hear often in other media. Today we continue that theme, highlighting grassroots climate leaders and the work of independent media organizations like Grist. Our guests are Jess Stahl, the Project Director of the Grist 50 and Deneine Christa Powell, one of the leaders featured on the list working toward community-based climate solutions.

Featured image of a bioswale for stormwater management in Milwaukee via Aaron Volkening on Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Forecast from Monday,10-6-25 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

This is an audio snapshot that captures the sounds of a group of naked bicyclists as they pose for a photo shoot for a Madison area magazine.