This is your WORT local news for Wednesday, May 24.
- Republicans in the state’s budget writing committee shut down a plan to study paid parental leave in Wisconsin,
- Students at Madison’s Memorial High School are calling on the school board for safer bathrooms,
- Local peace activists call for Wisconsin’s lawmakers in Washington to do more to bring peace to Ukraine,
- And in the second half, citizen scientists study Dane County’s lakes, a successful protest in 1966 Madison, and the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves.