Milt Lee talks with Steve Piragis, owner of Piragis Northwoods Company, about what led him to Ely, Minnesota and the start of his successful outfitters business.

Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn join us for our January Dig Deep conversation. A little different this time - the idea of reform AND what is working in our world. Our Monday conversation is about Universal Basic Income . Sign up for the Dig Deep Podcast!

In his humorous essay "Ardis", Duluth writer Doug Lewandowski notes the passage of time in pet years.

Program 54: Saving the Newsprint Industry in the Bleakest of Times 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

Everybody can use one more person in life that cares about them. Many organizations around northern MN pair caring adult mentors with kids who could use some time with an adult outside their family - including Bridges Kinship Mentoring in Grand Rapids and Kinship Partners in Brainerd, Pequot Lakes, Staples and Crosby. Executive Director of Bridges Deb DeMuth and board member Chelsi Drobnik joined John and Heidi on the Friday Morning Show.

Meadow Kouffeld joined John and Heidi to talk breakfast, names, and more on The Friday Morning Show 's popular What's For Breakfast segment. Join us every Friday morning when we sit down with one of our members and grill up some tough questions about things like omelets, English Tea, and the like or dislike of names . You could be the next call. Become a member of KAXE/KBXE. Call us at 1-800-669-2275 . Let us know what you had for breakfast, and maybe we'll have you on the air!

Mike Duval and Phil Hunsicker are keynote speakers for this year's Back to Basics workshop in Pine River. Both of them work for the MN DNR's Division of Ecological and Water Resources. Phil is an Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Planner and Mike is District Manager. They're also both musicians in the band Hans Blix and the Weapons Inspectors. Phil describes the group as "five friends who enjoy being together and playing some music together." Not surprisingly, music will be part of their

Senator Tina Smith joined us on Making Sausage this week to talk about her transition to Washington DC, imported steel and the importance of rural broadband.

Bill Blackwell, Jr. received the State of Minnesota Martin Luther King, Jr. Commitment to Service Award this past Monday. He's the Director of the American Indian Resource Center on the Bemidji State University campus. Under his leadership, the American Indian retention rate at BSU has reached 84%. Bill has created and continually cultivated an atmosphere of support and encouragement for American Indian students while implementing programs that make significant positive impacts on the students

Erin Marsh takes a scalpel to the process of writing and lays it all out on the table in her dream-like poem - "Writing at Night".