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    authors, activists, musicians

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    Stu Levitan has been a mainstay of Madison media and government for thirty-five years, a leader in both politics and the press since 1975. In addition to Books and Beats, Stu hosts Access: City Hall on the Madison City Channel and serves as chair of the Madison Community Development Authority and on the Madison Landmarks Commission. Since 1987, he has been a mediator/arbitrator for the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. (more  below)



About Stu
  • Stu Levitan was the first local host on Madison's Progressive Talk, The Mic 92.1 when the station was launched in the Fall of 2004.  Airing weekdays during the afternoon drive home, Stu was there for Madison during the '04 election and the months following.  In 2005, Stu debuted "Sundays With Stu" and focused his attention on authors, artists and musicians.  Then, during an exhaustive research and writing process, Stu took a break from The Mic 92.1 before releasing Madison: An Illustrated Sesquicentennial History, Volume I, 1856–1931.  On the heels of the book's incredible reviews and record sales Stu returned to The Mic 92.1 with "Sunday Journal," 10am to noon starting on February 4. 

    Stu began his journalism career in the summer of 1975 as the Washington Correspondent for the Capital Times. In 1977, he moved to Madison as a staff writer under the Newspaper Guild contract. Stu had gone back to Washington when five unions, including the Guild, struck the paper and Madison Newspapers, Inc. on October 1, 1977. Stu immediately quit the Cap Times and joined the fledgling Madison Press Connection, where he remained until it folded in January, 1980. (Stu was on the last front page, with an exclusive -- and unauthorized -- interview with Karl Armstrong inside Waupon Prison. Stu then published his own newsletter, Scoopsheet, for about two years. He also worked as a special investigator and analyst for the legislature's Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules. He also punched that essential Madison ticket of driving a cab, on the weekend graveyard shift with Union Cab Co-Op.

    Stu was elected to the Dane County Board of Supervisors, where his accomplishments (1982-1987) included writing a countywide Fair Housing Ordinance, creating the Sensitive Crimes Commission, revising the Affirmative Action ordinance, and creating a newspaper recycling program. As a result of these early efforts, the United Way of Dane County in 1984 honored Stu as "Key Person in the Community." Since then, Stu has held numerous leadership positions on various municipal and non-profit boards, including the Madison Plan Commission, the Zoning Board of Appeals and Madison Development Corporation; he currently serves as chair of the Community Development Authority. Stu is also an award-winning magazine writer for Madison Magazine, frequent political reporter, cultural commentator and essayist for several newspapers, and award-winning host of Access: City Hall on the Madison City Channel.  And since 1987 he has even had a day (and sometimes night) job, spreading labor peace and imposing industrial justice as a mediator/arbitrator for the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission.
    Stu comes by his penchant for politics and the press naturally. His father David worked for the United Nations, served on the Nassau County (NY) Board of Social Services and had his own public affairs show on ABC-TV, "On Trial." His mother, the late poet/playwright Judith Morley, was active in Democratic Party politics and had her own shows on Voice of America and NBC radio. Sister Barbara is head of the law department for the New York Surrogate's Court.


 
 
 
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