Taxes, small business, immigration, jobs, education, rural areas - these are all topics that come into play in Minn Post reporter Gregg Aamot's latest article "No place like home: Looking to expand, electronic parts giant DigiKey scouts the Midwest — but stays put in Minnesota" Gregg was back with us on the Monday Morning Show.

Leah Lemm talks with David Manuel and Michael VanHorn, both work with the Gitigaanike/ Red Lake Local Foods Initiative . The foods initiative is a few years old, but they already have multiple land plots to farm and garden, they distribute seeds to community members, and they partner with other groups to bring local food practices to more and more people. They also interact with the community largely through their Gitigaanike Facebook page . And they also hold a yearly food summit.

If it weren't for a little issue with communication, this would be a mighty fine world to live in. If we had any sense, we would spend more time with bees. Haley Lasche explains in her poem "Earth in Pot and Square"

Program 50 Charles Blandin's Bold Move: A New Paper Machine in the Depths of the Depression 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

Our monthly conversations regarding homes - buying, selling, maintaining - focused on carpets. Local real estate agent Jesse Davis joined Heidi and Kari on the Friday Morning Show to talk to Mark Saiger about the ins and outs of carpets.

"Steinman shows us we can confront the power of food retailser and create an inclusive, health promoting, and sustainable food system" Rod MacRae, Asssociate Professor York University. In northern MN we've got Natural Harvest Food Coop in Virginia, Harmony Coop in Bemidji, Crow Wing Food Coop in Brainerd and the soon to be Free Range Coop in Grand Rapids. Steinman will be in northern MN this July (Grand Rapids) and September (Bemidji). Grocery Story Deconstructs the food retail sector and the

Each week Kari 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, Danny Friedman of Coleraine called for advice on what to eat without stealing the leftovers from his missus, but chucked it all when he realized he could make kipper snacks. 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 .

Samantha Downing has recently published her first novel "My Lovely Wife". She talked with Heidi Holtan and Michael Small on the Monday Morning Show. What are you reading? Let us know and tune in to our weekend program with staff librarian Tammy Bobrowsky.

Wherever there were Finns there were co-ops…Fins got settled here and they realized that the economic conditions didn’t work in their favor. They began to go back to what they had learned in Finland about the economic commonwealth…They turned to the co-ops as a means of providing for themselves. Profit was never a motive, it was always about helping each other… What set the Finnish cooperatives apart from everybody else was the fact that they were retail. So they began to form small stores and

This week we hear about legal actions that the St. Louis County schools are taking against Johnson Controls, Architectural Resources and Kraus-Anderson concerning the North Woods and Southridge school buildings and their structural issues. Marshall also reports on the Tower City Council meeting held at the civic center with a whopping 60 community members in attendance as well as NRRI's new product made of wood pulp and recycled paper and walleye numbers on Lake Vermilion.