WORT Local News

WORT Local News

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WORT Local News episodes

  • Madison's Independent Police Monitor expected to be announced mid-October
    Here's your WORT Local News for Tuesday, Spetember 7th, 2021: The selection process for Madison’s independent police monitor narrows, A new report details how the pandemic affected Wisconsin workers, Cheaper electricity bills may be on the horizon for some Madisonians and in the second half, we learn the latest from UW-Madison, bone up on wildlife rehabilitation and visit the heart of an exploding star.
    50 min
  • A Brief History of Shrekfest
    Here's your WORT Local News for Thursday, September 2nd, 2021: Madison’s students head back to class, UW-Health nurses work to reestablish their union, Transparency Talk gives us an open government master class and in the second half Radio Chipstone looks at the history of fake medicine and New Domains goes to Shrekfest.
    50 min
  • A Brief History of Shrekfest
    Here's your WORT Local News for Thursday, September 2nd, 2021: Madison’s students head back to class, UW-Health nurses work to reestablish their union, Transparency Talk gives us an open government master class and in the second half Radio Chipstone looks at the history of fake medicine and New Domains goes to Shrekfest.
    50 min
  • Wisconsin Gets An ‘F’ For Its Handling Of COVID-19 In Prisons
    Here's your WORT Local News for Wednesday, September 1st, 2021: Madison’s Common Council greenlights a new home for Capital High, environmental groups sue to stop the state’s wolf hunt, Wisconsin receives an “F” for its handling of COVID-19 in prisons and in the second half, we get the week in local government news, the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves and revisit the labor strikes of yesteryear on Madison in the Sixties.
    51 min
  • Wisconsin Gets An ‘F’ For Its Handling Of COVID-19 In Prisons
    Here's your WORT Local News for Wednesday, September 1st, 2021: Madison’s Common Council greenlights a new home for Capital High, environmental groups sue to stop the state’s wolf hunt, Wisconsin receives an “F” for its handling of COVID-19 in prisons and in the second half, we get the week in local government news, the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves and revisit the labor strikes of yesteryear on Madison in the Sixties.
    51 min
  • Colectivo Bargaining: Colectivo Coffee Workers Enter Final Phase Of Unionizing
    Here's your WORT Local News for Wednesday, August 25th, 2021: Colectivo workers are in the final steps of unionizing, a new bill aims to protect breastfeeding parents, UW-Madison dips its toes into some psychedelic research and in the second half, we get the latest in local government news, the most comprehensive weather forecast on the air and head back to school on Madison in the Sixties.
    52 min

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