Podcast Episodes

Madison Public Market Lives, UW Raises Stalled, and Where to Cry in Public

The City Cast team is here to round up the news of the week. Dylan Brogan, Molly Stentz and Hayley Sperling recap how the Madison Public Market may g…

2 years, 7 months ago

How Madison Can Get Better School Lunches

According to UW-Madison professor Jennifer Gaddis, most kids don’t eat school lunch in Madison. She studies school lunch programs across the country,…

2 years, 7 months ago

Lawsuit Seeks to Toss Wisconsin School Choice Program

The first school choice program in Wisconsin was created more than thirty years ago - and it’s been fought over ever since. If you’d rather send your…

2 years, 7 months ago

What Should Madison Do With Dangerous Dogs?

Madison journalist Bill Lueders learned first-hand what happens to dogs who attack. His dog Stella was attacked by a neighborhood pit bull left to ro…

2 years, 7 months ago

Why Madison’s Crisis Response Team Is Working

Madison started the CARES, or Community Alternative Response Emergency Services, program in 2021 after a wave of protests and a series of deaths. Par…

2 years, 7 months ago

Madison School Enrollment Up, UW System Rebrands, Campus Responds to Mideast War

The City Cast team is here to round up the news of the week. Dylan Brogan, Molly Stentz and Hayley Sperling talk about Madison schools gaining more k…

2 years, 7 months ago

The Restaurant Preserving Wisconsin’s Dairy Legacy

Seven Acre Dairy is many things - a cafe, a restaurant, a hotel, a butter plant. 

But if you talk to founder Nic Mink, it’s also a place for restorati…

2 years, 7 months ago

Here’s Who’s Coming to the WI Book Festival This Year

More than 60 authors, from the nationally famous to the locally beloved (and sometimes both!), are speaking in Madison next week. It’s Madison’s larg…

2 years, 7 months ago

There's a $2M Pipe Organ in Madison and You Should Hear It

There’s a giant among us and it lives at the Overture Center for the Arts. It’s a 30-ton pipe organ. It cost more than two million dollars, contains …

2 years, 8 months ago

Lawmakers Threaten to Impeach Elections Official and County Exec Retires

The City Cast team is here to round up the news of the week. And this week’s theme is executive power. Dylan Brogan and Molly Stentz reflect on Dane …

2 years, 8 months ago