Annelle Sheline, PhD, is a research fellow in the Middle East program. She previously served as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor ...

Members of the public have submitted four police complaints for the office to process. But a procedure for processing those complaints still hasn’t been adopted. Copley says the procedure has been ...

Amelia Royko Mauer, co-founding advocate for the Community Response Team, joins the Thursday edition of the 8 O’Clock Buzz and host Tony Castañeda to talk about the status of the Police Civilian ...

The Madison Police Department deployed more tear gas during Black Lives Matter protests in late May and early June than they did in the prior 16 years combined. Over just three days and nights from ...

It takes a lot of staff to keep the city running, but many of them work behind the scenes. Kicking off our new series “Get To Know Your Local Government,” WORT reporter Sutton Johnson visited City ...

First up, we review Madison Water Utility’s latest annual drinking water quality report with civil engineer Kelly Miess. “We drink the tap water here,” she says. “We take that for granted—that’s not ...

Vets on Frets is a band formed from the non-profit Guitars for Vets, which has been sharing the healing power of music by providing free guitar lessons to veterans since 2007. Vets on Frets consists ...

Madison in the Sixties — and Seventies. The gay rights movement. Born in late 1969, the gay rights movement began in earnest on May 1, 1970, when the Madison Alliance for Homosexual Equality (MAHE) ...

On today’s program, Allen Ruff speaks with friend of the show, Mouin Rabbani, about Yasser Abu Shabab, the continuing genocide in Gaza, the chaos created by US-backed aid organizations, and Israel’s ...

On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Cole Erickson interviews author Ben Pladek about his debut novel Dry Land. It is 1917, and a young forester in the north woods of Wisconsin has just ...

‘Tis the season for moving in Madison as roughly 35,000 downtown leases are expected to end on or around August 15. That means a population the size of the entire city of Sun Prairie may be moving ...

Two weeks after unveiling their new complaint form, Independent Monitor Robin Copley says they’re beginning the first investigations of complaints brought against the Madison Police Department. That ...