Ankur Malhotra shares his picks for the best music events happening around Madison the over next week.

Senator Tammy Baldwin discusses Venezuela, war powers, and why Congress must approve U.S. military action.

Wisconsin’s private school choice program has expanded massively over the last three decades. Starting in Milwaukee in 1990, taxpayers covered just 300 students’ tuition for a total of 700,000 dollars. That spending has ballooned to 700 million dollars this year, Wisconsin Watch finds in a new report, with nearly half of the state’s private school students receiving a voucher last year.

For an in-depth look at Wisconsin’s educational landscape, our News Producer Faye Parks sat down with data investigative reporter Hongyu Liu.

Image courtesy: Chali Pittman / WORT News.

After studying one of Madison’s highest-traffic roadways, WisDOT has drafted a proposal to expand the beltline. At a city transportation meeting yesterday, city leaders and Madison residents shared mixed feelings about the plan.

Greg Wilpert, German activist and founder of Venezuelanalysis.com, joins host Tony Castañeda to discuss recent events in Venezuela and beyond.

On today’s show, host Allen Ruff is joined by Stephen Zunes to talk about his recent article in The Progressive, “The Real Reason Trump Invaded Venezuela: It’s not drugs, democracy, or even oil. It’s power.”

Featured image of Nicolás Maduro at a meeting in Geneva in 2015 via Flickr.

Data centers require a massive amount of water and electricity to stay running. In 2023, they accounted for 4 percent of all electricity consumption in the United States. And Google’s existing “hyperscale” data centers use on average just over a half a million gallons of water a day.

Here in Wisconsin, utility providers are rushing to update their infrastructure in order to keep pace with the data center boom. This comes after two decades of declining demand for both electricity and water statewide, according to a new report from Wisconsin Policy Forum.

Senior Research Associate Tyler Byrnes joined our News Producer Faye Parks to explain what they learned from putting Wisconsin’s changing utility landscape into context.

Image courtesy: Clean Wisconsin via their website.

More than a thousand DeForest residents have signed onto a petition that aims to give voters the final say on land annexations for major redevelopment.

Part of a movement to resist a proposed data center just outside the village’s boundaries, the petition hit a snag yesterday when the village attorney warned that it was illegal.

Image courtesy: Zoe Sullivan / WORT News.

Forecast from Wednesday 1-7-26 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

If you’re not hungry already, today's show is bound to whet your appetite. Host Ali Muldrow speaks with local foodie, Lindsay Christians, about all the good eats of 2025. They talk about what bars, cafes, food carts, fast casual chains, and bakeries closed and opened in 2025, and what they’re looking forward to in 2026.

Featured image of a festive meal at a restaurant via Rawpixel.