One of six regional organizations established by the McKnight Foundation to stregthen opportunities in rural Minnesota, the Northwest Minnesota Foundation inspires people in its 12 county service area to re-imagine possibilities. Nate Dorr is the Vice President for Advocacy at NWMF. He Zoomed into the morning show recently to discuss ways the many ways NWMF supports the region and how his career has changed his perspective.

Today on Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo we learn how to say the month of March in Ojibwe. Onaabani Giizis is the crust on the snow moon. Nana Boozhoo also says a prayer for us in Ojibwe. To learn more about March in Ojibwe click here.

This week on Minnesota Music notes Brett Carter features The New Standards band, a collaborative effort of three of the Twin Cities most well-known musicians, Chan Polling of the Suburbs, John Munson of Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic, and Steve Roehm of Billygoat and Electropolis. They will be livestreaming a show from their favorite venue The Dakota, on Saturday, March 6 th at 7pm. Tickets are available through The New Standards website and at dakotacooks.com .

If I asked you to name a genius, there’s a good chance you’d say: Albert Einstein, or Galileo, or Mozart, or some other famous man from history. But what about Clara Peeters? Lise Meitner? Frances Arnold? Fei-Fei Li? Likely not. The way we have defined genius throughout history, famous men from male-dominated power structures, has kept women geniuses in the shadows for too long. This is according to writer Janice Kaplan, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gratitude Diaries , and in her

This week on Minnesota Music notes we feature Minnesota essayist, rapper, and self-described amaretto enthusiast, Dessa. Listen here to find out about her commitment to release a new song and video on the 15th of every month for the first half of 2021.

Marshall Helmberger, Editor and publisher of the Timberjay newspaper, joins Heidi Holtan with news from northeastern Minnesota. This week Marshall reported the state’s Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling from last year that had sent a PolyMet air emissions permit back to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for further review. The city of Winton east of Ely has been having problems since the last cold snap with frozen water lines, water mains and even a frozen water tower, causing the

The AP reported this week, "Senator seeks probe of natural gas price spikes during storm". They were talking about MN Senator Tina Smith. WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic senator is calling for federal investigations into possible price gouging of natural gas in the Midwest and other regions following severe winter storms that plunged Texas and other states into a deep freeze that caused power outages in millions of homes and businesses. Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith says natural gas spot prices

Today we talked more about the price gouging of utilities - natural gas - after the extreme weather in Texas and what MN Attorney General Keith Ellison's office is doing to combat this....as well as student loan debt and eviction moratoriums. From the Attorney General's website: Attorney General Ellison calls for cancellation of federal student-loan debt Joins multistate coalition in support of congressional resolutions calling for the cancellation of up to $50K in debt per student borrower 775K

Each week Fred Freidman and Kyle Erickson join John Bauer for Sports Page on the Thursday Morning Show. This week they talk about torn ACL’s and visa problems for athletes, have an in-depth discussion on the Timberwolves, give details on Tiger Woods accident and give opinions on a decision to ban bikini’s at a beach volleyball tournament in Qatar. Heidi stumps them with trivia questions on the hiring and firing of coaches and managers.

It's your opportunity to ask questions about Minnesota’s response and plans during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Hosted by News and Public Affairs Director Heidi Holtan. This week we heard about the COVID-19 we heard more about the new Vaccine Connector from the State of MN , mental health and more! If you didn’t get a chance to send or call in your question this week email [email protected] or call 612-562-9895.