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Wednesday, June 13 – David Osborne has won the 2018 Spur Award for historical fiction from the Western Writers of America. He’ll be honored later this month (June 20-23) at the WWA’s annual convention in Billings. Osborne’s “The Coming” is a rigorously researched novel that tells the expansive, tragic story of native-white relations in the American West through a fictionalized account of the life of Daytime Smoke, the real-life son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. ~~~ Entrepreneur Gary

Tuesday, June 12 – The Equal Rights Amendment was intended to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. It was first introduced way back in 1923. It finally passed congress in 1972, but it failed to get the required 38 states to ratify it by the 1982 deadline. Recently, Illinois lawmakers symbolically voted to ratify, putting it still one state short. Today, in acknowledgement that the amendment never became law, there’s an

Monday, June 11 – Today we share a compelling documentary from Montana Public Radio titled “Alex not Amy – Growing up transgender in the rural West.” Producer Denise Dowling shares the story of ten-year-old Alex O'Neill, who knew since he was a toddler that he's a boy, despite being assigned female at birth. The documentary follows his transition as he changes his legal and social gender. The piece explores the various laws, identification policies, school and sports guidelines regarding

The Share A Story Family literacy event is hosted by Prairie Public, United Way of Cass-Clay, and Fargo Parks every June at Rheault Farm in Fargo—this year on June 9.

Friday, June 8 – Jack Russell Weinstein joins us to preview this month’s episode of “Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life.” This month he visits with Jason Hill in a conversation titled “An Immigrant Defends America.” ~~~ Tom Isern has this week’s Plains Folk essay, “Great Plains Bison.” ~~~ Our weekly news chat with news director Dave Thompson. ~~~ Matt Olien has this week’s movie review: “The Rider,” which was filmed in South Dakota.

We visit with Sue Balcom of the “ Root Sellers ” farm near Mandan.

Thursday, June 7 – Almost daily the Alberta oil sands make the news across Canada with pro-pipeline and anti-pipeline stories. In the ultimate power move, the Canadian government recently (end of May) purchased the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, allowing the national government to sidestep opposition from the government of British Columbia. The province had objected to the proposed route across the Rockies. Today we share an interview with Chris Turner, author of The Patch:

Wednesday, June 6 – PBS’ Great American Read event is underway, with voters choosing America’s favorite book. Today we’re visiting with avid readers Greg Danz and Val Stadik. Danz owns Zandbroz , an independent variety and bookstore in Fargo. Stadik owns Main Street Books in Minot. ~~~ In this week’s Natural North Dakota, Chuck Lura discusses Scorpius and other summer constellations. ~~~ Ashley Thornberg visits a mother daughter duo combining their skills as personal coaches for a yoga and

Tuesday, June 5 – “ We Proceeded O n” is a publication of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. The new issue is characterized as “A Very Special Issue.” That’s because it features a 10-page discussion of a map that only recently has been recognized for its importance. Joining us to discuss the map’s relationship to Lewis and Clark is Lewis and Clark scholar Clay Jenkinson. ~~~ Season Two of North Dakota Shakespeare kicks off with Twelfth Night. Here to discuss this outdoor presentation

Monday, June 4 – Prairie Public’s Christine McClellan joins us to share clips from the North Dakota winners in the PBS Kids Writers’ Contest. Bill Thomas does an interview with winner Jacob Day about his story, “The Adventures of Chicken,” and we also hear from winners Kennedy Riggins of Watford City; Cole Anderson of Marion; and Caleb Zerr in Grand Forks. ~~~ Chuck Lura shares a Natural North Dakota essay on Fort Stevens State Park. ~~~ Building human rights museums, lecturing on rape culture..