“The only constant is the change… The state of Minnesota just built Minnesota’s tallest highway bridge. This bridge is an amazing thing to walk on… You can walk across the Rouchleau pit and you can look across and see the old strata in the walls and it’s very cool... in the winter, during the snow storm you can walk out there and it’s just so calm and peaceful, in the spring you can hear the water trickling down the sides of the mine pit. In the summer it’s green and lush and you can hear the

Phenology is the biological nature of events as they relate to climate. Every Tuesday morning, our resident Phenologist John Latimer gathers his phenological data and reports his findings in the weekly Phenology Report. Among many other observations, John addresses the many changes in foliage and flowers in this week's segment! As always, we love to hear what our listeners are noticing out in nature. Give us a call at 218.999.9876 and let us know what is happening around your place. You can also

Leah Lemm visits a bakery and a small farm both operated by Jay Rigdon and Erik Heimark of Maple Ridge Farms. Have an idea of where Leah should visit? Send it to [email protected] .

We hear from listeners and school kids across northern Minnesota every week when they submit their phenology observations and we look forward to airing their findings every Tuesday. The school year is winding down and we're already lamenting the upcoming loss of our weekly classroom reports. The students have done a stellar job of documenting and reporting their nature observations this year. We've loved all of it! Hopefully some of the kids will continue to connect with us over the summer. What

Chuck Marohn our conservative commentator for Dig Deep asks a provocative question to liberal commentator Aaron Brown (he's an educator) : does more money for education make a town "less poor"? And Aaron then asks, what do they mean by the word education? Education, Aaron argues, can be very political. They talk about books by some of their favorite authors including Jane Jacobs and Jared Diamond . Sign up for the Dig Deep podcast!

Program 60: Labor Relations at the Mill, 1937-38 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

“We had a pet bear that lived in Nevis at the Pur-Oil station… Growing up here was wonderful. I had the best this country ever had to offer…We’ve had the best of it, and we still do. ” – Gary Wolff, Nevis, MN Gary Wolff grew up in Nevis, Minnesota. His family moved to town in 1949, the first year of what is now known as Musky Days – a mid-summer music and arts celebration in downtown Nevis. He and his wife Marsha had their first official date at a Musky Days event many years ago and 50-some

“I owe a lot to jazz…I was really shut down emotionally and I couldn’t really express myself or feel anything hardly. A cousin of mine came from Laguna Beach, California…when he opened up his suitcase, he said, here’s a present for ya…he handed me two Louis Armstrong albums. Those records changed my life. I felt so excited and for the first time in my life I could emote and really let my feelings out and from then on, I just kept following jazz…it opened a door to a whole world for me.” –Anthony

This Youth in Radio Podcast features Nate Bartholomew from Grand Rapids, an 18-year-old with a passion for the history of the Iron Range. Hear the episode below. Listen Thursday mornings about 8:10 to hear the Youth in Radio Podcast on KBXE/KAXE. The Youth in Radio Podcast is also available on kaxe.org and through iTunes. If you know someone who might want to make a podcast, send an email to [email protected] . Northern Community Radio's Youth in Radio Podcast seeks to keep radio relevant and

“Haiku are kind of the most gem-like, jewel-like poem. They are very short. Unlike other poetry, they don’t use fancy words, metaphor, simile, rhyme. The lines aren’t even capitalized…and they are usually three lines of something fewer than 17 syllables that compare one image with another or reveal an image and then change it so there is a surprise.” –Marsh Muirhead Marsh Muirhead’s second book of haiku last night of the carnival has recently been published. He’ll be reading from that collection