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, Danny Friedman (without his Beastman Band) extolled the benefits of a smoothie made of a can of tuna, spinach greens, and an entire lemon in a blender. 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

Itasca Community College provost Bart Johnson was back with us today - to introcduce us to Jenny Tyler and Neesha Moore, students at Deer River High School who particapated in Education Career Pathways. They spent last fall learning what the career of teacher was like, and spending time student teaching.

On Making Sausage this morning DFL commentator Colleen Nardone joined me to talk with M N Senate Minority leader Tom Bakk (DFL-Cook) to talk about the confirmation process of Governor Walz's appointments, education and health care.

Is it naive to think that compromise could ever happen? Is there a way out of the current stalemate with the partial government shutdown. When Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn were in to record this podcast only conversation we made guesses on when the shutdown might end - keep in mind it was January 8th.

In this final on-air conversation about compromise Chuck and Aaron lead us to right and why compromise sometimes seems impossible, especially when it comes to government. Dig Deep is our conversation between a liberal and a conservative, who model for all of us how to listen to each other, and try to understand each other. It's available as a podcast here. Do you have a topic you want Aaron and Chuck to talk about? Email us!

Paige and Maren Carter understand that the choices they make as human beings can have an impact on the Earth. For that reason, they have chosen to follow a “zero waste” lifestyle. Maren said they made their decision because “We saw that there was an issue with how we are treating our planet. We wanted to make an intentional change to do what we can—even if it’s something small, changing our everyday lives—to protect the planet. We wanted to try and live intentionally, and show other people that

We continued the conversation today with Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn on Dig Deep on compromise. This time, they start with the Missouri Compromise.

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. January is a fairly light month for outdoor animal activity. Even though it's frigid, John reports that the chickadees are singing, pine siskins have taken over the Latimer bird feeder, and woodpecker pecked away on a deer carcus in his yard. Those stories along with an update on

Every week we hear from regular listeners and Minnesota school kids as they call or email us with their nature observations. This week, because of the Monday holiday, we only had two school reports. We did hear from a number of other listeners, tho. Topics in this week's talkbacks include invasive cattails, ravens, rabbits eating their own poop, the sound of the first "phoebe" song and a follow up on last week's discussion about sections of the Mississippi river becoming frozen. What are you

Program 26: Trust Busted 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 that became the town of