Marshall Helmberger fills us in on Tower City Government, the DNRs decision to do their own environmental review for the Twin Metals Project (proposed copper nickel mining near the Boundary Waters), the lack of pine grosbeaks at the feeder and 30 years of the Timberjay newspaper.

Kathleen Blake from Grand Rapids joined us to talk about this time of the year, and how tough it can be for those who are grieving loved ones. Especially those who have lost children. It's a good reminder to find ways to be kind to those who are struggling at the holidays. There are events going on in the Grand rapids area to help parents including: A candlelight vigil for grieving parents at the Angel of Hope Park in Grand Rapids on the Mississippi River across from the YMCA at 7 p.m. A role

Samuel Shem’s 1978 novel The House of God, has been called “one of the most important medical novels written.” A sharp satire exposing the excessive and demanding medical training for doctors, it helped reshape internship practices. Shem is hoping to foster change again in his follow-up novel, Man’s 4th Best Hospital. Using the same style of satire and returning characters, Shem now focuses on the two current issues in patient care: money and screens. Samual Shem telsl us about his new novel and

…Art school is an exciting process of slowly figuring out what you really want to study ... I started out with jewelry and found it fun but there wasn't enough color . I really realized color was my favorite thing . So then I switched my major to ceramics … and I had my painting teacher who I was taking fundamental painting classes with . He said , “Gillian, you should change your major a third time and be a painter . You have the soul of a painter . ” And so I changed my major a third time and

More on impeachment on Dig Deep with Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown . Don't forget to join us at the LIVE Dig Deep Community Conversation on Strong Towns at the Reif Center on Tuesday December 10th at 7pm. Along with a Dig Deep conversation the audience will have an opportunity for questions at the end. It's free and open to the public and will be available at a later date on the radio and via the Dig Deep podcast. Chuck Marohn will be speaking about his new book "Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up

Listen in to the third part of our Dig Deep conversation with liberal commentator Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn. The conversation moves into impeachment of Presidents Nixon and Clinton. Read more here about the three articles of impeachment of President Nixon and the two articles of impeachment of President Clinton. Don't forget to join us at the LIVE Dig Deep Community Conversation on Strong Towns at the Reif Center on Tuesday December 10th at 7pm. Along with a Dig Deep conversation

Taking time to contemplate what is happening in nature is one of the many aspects of Northern Community Radio that sets us apart from any other radio station. Each day we bring you a phenology note where our resident phenologist John Latimer shares a note from his journals of more than 35 years of climate and nature data collection. Each Tuesday we dig even deeper with the full Phenology Report. This week, among other things, John reports on sightings in his yard - woodpeckers, a porcupine, and

Tuesdays are special at Northern Community Radio and when school is in session, we are even more jazzed than normal because in addition to hearing from our listeners, young phenologists across Minnesota call in their classroom phenology reports. This week we heard from students in Hill City, Shevlin and Northfield. We also heard from Rich Libby who contacted John about a study he recenty read regarding the effects of artificial light on insects. Listen to to the links for the full experience!

...if we can't find what we want, w e'll just do it ourselves . And we've done this for years ... all of our products have really unique features that you won't see in other places . And there's kind of a story behind each piece about what what we were looking for and we couldn't find... - Rose Heim discussing the winter women's wear line she designs and manufactures with her daughter Gretchen, Heim-Made Rose Heim moved to the Kelliher area to teach k-12 art at Kelliher School in the 1970s. She

This week our Ojibwe puppet friends Natasha and Nana Boozhoo taught us MINOBII NIIBAA ANAMA'E GIIZHIGAD - or Merry Nighttime Prayer Day. Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo is a podcast about Ojibwe language and culture made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the Citizens of Minnesota. It's created by Michael Lyons of Bemidji. You can order Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo merch and Ojibwe language books and comic books by Michael Lyons here.