Each week John and Heidi pull up a chair to one of our member’s kitchen tables and get to know them a little bit better. This week’s caller, Mikki Anderson of Grand Rapids took time to share her breakfast of a possibly rubbery two egg omlet with American cheese. Hear the whole conversation by clicking below. Thanks to our sponsor Homestead Mills for their support of this program! Let us know if you want to be our guest on What's For Breakfast . All it takes is your membership and an email !

More from our Dig Deep commentators Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn on how the system works - how elections 2020 are at this moment - how the primaries and early campaigning actually work. Sign up for the Dig Deep Podcast!

Over a year ago KAXE received email from Amanda Roach, explaining that her mom, Peggy Boggs, was both a farmer and one of Northern Minnesota's Strong Women. Peggy Boggs grew up in Chicago but fell in love with farming when she moved north to the Spring Lake area many years ago. Like most farmers, Peggy is super busy. It took us months to find a time when we could talk and share her story. She spoke with Northern Community Radio's Maggie Montgomery. Maggie : Tell me about your farm up in Spring

Phenology is the biological nature of events as they relate to climate. Each week in our Phenology Talkback segment we hear from listeners who have been paying attention to nature. This week we are thrilled to report we received our first phenology note from a classroom! The kids from Prairie Creek Community School in Northfield sent in their first class report! These young phenologists noted the decrease in monarchs and dragonflies, the increase in colors on maple trees, horses' hair getting

It's time for our next round of our monthly Dig Deep conversations with liberal commentator Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn. They tell us about their summers and then take a look, from their differing political perspectives, at how the presidential election is playing out and why the candidates are doing what they are doing. Sign up for the Dig Deep Podcast!

Program 84: Charles Blandin's Last Days and Death A radio series produced by historian Don Boese. Don is the author of eight books dealing with local history in Itasca County, including "John C. Greenway and the Opening of the Western Mesabi", and the main source for this series, "Papermakers: the Blandin Paper Company and Grand Rapids, Minnesota". The series begins with the arrival of the first Euro-Americans to the forested wilderness of Itasca County in the 1870s. In those early days the site

This week Marshall Helmberger reports on Senator Tina Smith's recent visit to Ely to talk economics in rural areas... she was met with lots of folks who wanted to talk about the proposed copper nickel mine Twin Metals near the Boundary Waters. He also told us about some local movie stars, a wolf attack of a dog in Ely and the latest on Tower's lunch lady Marilyn Turnbull.

Every First Friday, Area Voices Producer Katie Carter digs around to find out what art events are going on around the region, Today she hooked us up with happenings in Cook, Bigfork, Brainerd, Park Rapids and Bemidji!

Every First Friday we connect with Betty Firth from the Ely Folk School. She lets us in on the upcoming classes and events in Ely and at the Folk School. This month is full of cool stuff... including a class today where you can learn how to make a fish leather wallet and later in month a class on bent willow chair making! Go to the Ely Folk School website for a full listing of upcoming courses!

Every First Friday of the month, we check in with Katie Marshall, Executive Director of the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids. She fills us in on all the First Friday happenings around Grand Rapids and lets us know about the new exhibits at the MacRostie. This morning we also had the joy of connecting with Dan Anderson whose media-based installation art is up this month at the MacRostie! Dan discussed his media and film work and let us in on what is behind his exhibit at the MacRostie called