Heidi Holtan: Listening to dig deep on Northern Community radio. I'm Heidi Holton with Aaron Brown or liberal commentator and Chuck Marohn is our conservative commentator today. We are talking about. Small towns. Our small towns of northern Minnesota and how to get things done. Is there a Magic Bullet? We in our prior conversations about what a university of four-year University be that silver bullet that would change everything. How do you start having these conversations? Chuck Marohn: Well, I

We care deeply about the natural world around us here at KAXE-KBXE. Each week our resident phenologist John Latimer's Phenology Report provides a comprehensive look at what's happening in nature here in northern Minnesota. Snowstorms, catkins, warm days, and mating owls are all part of this wide ranging spring report. Check it out! What are you noticing? Send us a note via email or leave a voicemail at 218.999.9876. We'd love to hear about it. If you love this stuff, you'll dig our KAXE-KBXE

Every Tuesday we hear from students and listeners as they send in weekly Phenology observations. Spring is here. These listener and student reports include irises poking thru the ground, tree swallows, snowshoe hares changing colors, flocks of snow buntings, turkey vultures, wood frogs and even some open water! Our phenologists did some incredible reporting during this action packed week!

Ely writer, DyAnne Korda weaves together the revelatory and the succinct into a poem about healing called "Guadalupe and Burdock." You can find more of her words at www.sleddogmoon.com.

We spoke with Mark Lelwica from the Roundhouse Brewery in Brainerd recently. He told us how he got into being a brewmaster, what life is like at the Roundhouse Brewery and what's brewing right now. Tonight, all Brainerd listeners are welcome to stop by the Northern Community Radio Community Advisory meeting which will happen at the Roundhouse Brewery from 5:30 - 7pm. We'd love to meet you and hear your thoughts about our programming. Stop by the Roundhouse Brewery tonight!

*Dig Deep – Where Is the White Knight in our Small Towns of Minnesota? Pt. 1 Heidi: You're listening to Dig Deep on Northern Community Radio it's where we pair conservative commentator Chuck Marohn with our liberal commentator Aaron Brown. Thanks for being back you guys. I'm Heidi Holtan. We had a great time doing a live dig deep our first run at that Itasca Community College last month. And I wanted to revisit some of the things that we talked about there especially a question that was posed to

In celebration of Earth Day , all humans are invited to stop by Hobson Union on the Bemidji State University campus Sunday, April 22 between 12:30 and 3:30p.m. The Bemidji State University Sustainability Coordinator Erica Bailey-Johnson stopped by to tell us all about it. Music by local musicians, readings by local poets, artwork by local artists, hands on activities, demonstrations by local experts, free food and a silent auction that will benefit the Bemidji Area Food Shelf and the Watermark

Program 66: Impact of World War II on the Paper Company 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

When you think of breakfast, the first thing that comes to mind might not be instant oatmeal, but that's what Amy Baasi of Cherry offered up when she joined Heidi and John for breakfast (since Rob forgot). Weekends are for real, yummy oatmeal, but instant makes an easier start to a busy day. Either way, it all starts with a handy red teapot. 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

Conversations can lead to places you never expected. On the Thursday Morning Show we were introducing a NPR Morning Edition story on Swarms Of Tiny Sea Creatures are Powerful Enough to Mix Oceans. That led us down the rabbit hole of Sea-Monkeys. And the ads in the back of comic books like X-ray specs, Throw Your Voice, Charles Atlas and Your New Real Live, Miniature Monkey. It wasn't just us that remembered, KAXE member Melanie from Brainerd called in her memory of her miniature monkey Capricorn