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This month Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn take on the topic of journalism. In this first episode a look back at the purpose of newspapers for immigrants of our region and yellow journalism. SIGN UP FOR THE DIG DEEP PODCAST

Minnesota Brown's Aaron Brown and Strong Town's Chuck Marohn finish off our conversation on class today. SIGN UP FOR THE DIG DEEP PODCAST In this final installment they talk about class and how it affects urban vs. rural people and how class affected the Trump effect in the last presidential election. Here are some of the books mentioned in this month's Dig Deep: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America

Once a month we gather together Minnesota Brown's Aaron Brown and Strong Town's Chuck Marohn. They have lots in common including their choice to work and raise their families in their hometowns on the Iron Range and in Brainerd....but they come from different philosophical backgrounds - Aaron is liberal, Chuck is conservative. SIGN UP FOR THE DIG DEEP PODCAST In our second installment on class, we look more at today. What does it mean to be working poor? What does class mean to rural areas? Here

Once a month we gather together Minnesota Brown's Aaron Brown and Strong Town's Chuck Marohn. They have lots in common including their choice to work and raise their families in their hometowns on the Iron Range and in Brainerd....but they come from different philosophical backgrounds - Aaron is liberal, Chuck is conservative. SIGN UP FOR THE DIG DEEP PODCAST This month our large topic to dive into is CLASS. The first episode looks at history - why immigrants came to America and more

Listen to part 3 of our Dig Deep conversation on education with liberal commentator Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn . Chuck has an idea for a new system for teachers. Aaron IS a teacher and has some of his own ideas to offer. Send us your thoughts on Dig Deep on Education. And don't forget to sign up for the podcast of Dig Deep, via iTunes .

Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn continue the conversation on education in this next episode. Most school districts in northern Minnesota find themselves in situations that involve their older buildings with failing infrastructure. But where do the models for the future of schools come from? How come most school districts have the same answer to their problems - leaving old buildings for larger, consolidated buildings on the edge of towns? What COULD we do instead? We want to know what you think.

This month our Dig Deep topic is Education. Many have suggested this topic, as school funding and consolidation has an effect on many in northern MN. In this first conversation our commentators Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn look at the history of education. Our forefathers like Thomas Jefferson made sure that the articles of incorporation upheld this noble idea that farm kids and regular people were capable of learning things like Greek and governing themselves. There was this idea that the

Last week on Dig Deep we talked infrastructure. In our final conversation we talked about the modern version of infrastructure Broadband. Bernadine Joselyn was in the studios to elaborate on Chuck and Aaron's discussion.

Aaron Brown has been a strong advocate for rural broadband. Chuck? Not quite as much. Listen to this conversation and let us know what you think! Don't forget to sign up for the Dig Deep podcast!

In our second Dig Deep conversation this week we talk transportation. Conservative commentator Chuck Marohn posed this: Are we trying to connect places or are we trying to build places? He and liberal commentator Aaron Brown dig deep into roads and highways and what the costs are to our communities. Sign up for the Dig Deep podcast!