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As election season approaches, KNOX Radio is creating a space for direct dialogue between residents and the candidates who seek to represent them. Join Noah as he moderates a live roundtable forum featuring candidates from city, state, and local offices.

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As election season approaches, KNOX Radio is creating a space for direct dialogue between residents and the candidates who seek to represent them. On Wednesday, June 3rd at 6:00 p.m. CT, host Noah Chelliah will moderate a live roundtable forum featuring candidates from city, state, and local offices.

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Terry Bjerke joins the program to discuss the mess that the county is in and what they're going to do to dig their way out of it.

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Retired U.S. Air Force Major Dave Hughes is running for Minnesota’s Congressional District 7 Republican nomination. Dave joins Noah to talk about his platform and why he is the true conservative candidate for Minnesota.

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A Karlstad, Minnesota, man is running for U.S. Congress as a Republican, challenging the seat’s Republican incumbent.

According to a press release from Hughes’ campaign, Hughes is an advocate for issues like adhering to the U.S. Constitution, lowering taxes, national security, ending abortion and repealing federal gun laws.

The 7th Congressional District includes most of western Minnesota, running from the Canadian border south to Pipestone, Murray and Cottonwood counties. Cities in the district include Moorhead, East Grand Forks, Willmar, Detroit Lakes, Alexandria, Perham and Wadena.

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This week Jarrod Thomas from the Alerus Center Commission joins Noah to discuss the on-going situation regarding the scoreboards at the Alerus Center and the use of Sourcewell.

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The City of Grand Forks has started to deal with looking at a new scoreboard provider at the Alerus Center.

The Grand Forks Committee of the Whole told staff to start looking around for qualified businesses to handle the task.

Grand Forks City Administrator Todd Feland said the plans and specs will make a company who cannot bid, bypass the project.

“There would be an opportunity if a bidder felt like those plans and specs are not going to allow me to bid. You’ll hear that up front as opposed to getting protests at the end of the bidding process,” Feland said.

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This week Mayor Brandon Bochenski makes the announcement that the city of Grand Forks is considering eliminating the city portion of property tax in exchange for a modest increase in franchise fees and sales tax. The proposed taxes would be lower than other cities in the area and would set Grand Forks apart from the traditional way cities are funded.

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This week we discuss the city's intentions as they explore remodeling the old water treatment plant.

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A proposal to raze the former water treatment plant and in its place build an “amenity-rich development project” that highlights the city’s connection to the Red River sparked an 80-minute debate among City Council members Monday.

Specifically at issue was the expanse and scope of the project and not necessarily just the decision to tear down the decommissioned plant, which sits on prime real estate on the south edge of Grand Forks’ downtown.

During Monday’s Committee of the Whole meeting at City Hall, Matt Wetli, of St. Louis-based Development Strategies, Inc., presented the latest news on the proposal, which his company calls a “truly transformative project to redevelop the downtown water treatment plant site." The company’s goal was twofold, according to documents presented to the council: To create “a market-supported vision for an amenity-rich development project” and also “to create a district strategy that builds on the catalytic potential of the project.”

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How do parents guide their kids in the lifelong balancing act of loving other people, while avoiding excessive negative influence? Pastor Paul joins Critical Thought as we navigate how Christians love non-Christians.

Ephesians 6:4:

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Proverbs 13:24:

He who spares his rod hates his son,

Romans 12:20-21:

Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him;

Mark 12:30-31:

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

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This week the Mayor of Grand Forks joins the program and we dig into the role of city government. What role do amenities play in a city? What can you expect from your city leaders? How can you hold the stewards of the city at any one time accountable for the decisions as a whole?

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The Grand Forks City Council formally accepted the first bid package for the Altru Sports Complex. Next, the facility progresses to a June groundbreaking.

The council approved the measure during its meeting Monday night, after it had reviewed the bids, agreements and financing packages last week. Council member Rebecca Osowski cast the lone vote against it, citing her continued view that the project costs too much and is over budget. Even with economic uncertainties regarding national tariffs, the city generally has been happy with the competitive bidding so far.

For the interim financing, the city will draw on a line of credit with a 3.54% fixed interest rate from Wells Fargo. This method will likely save the city interest in the long run as it’ll be able to access the funds as it progresses, instead of a lump sum up front.

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This week Paul joins us and we talk about what role the Church plays supporting couples who want to live a Biblical marriage.

Genesis 2:18

And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Matthew 19:4-6

And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9

but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

Romans 1:26-27

For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

Exodus 22:16

If a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely pay the bride-price for her to be his wife.

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This week Paul Knight joins the program and we talk about the role of woman in ministry

Ephesians 5:21 - 25

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Collossians 3:18 - 19

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

Galations 3:28

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 3:1

Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Timothy 2:11-14

A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.

I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

1 Corinthians 14: 34-35

Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.

If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.

Genesis 2:8

And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.

Exodus 15:20

Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.

Judges 4:4

Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.

Luke 2:36 - 38

There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.

Acts 1:14

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

Acts 18:24-26

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.

Acts 21:8-9

Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven. He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.

Phillippians 4:2-3

I implore Euodia and I implore Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

1 Peter 2:9-10

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

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