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Wednesday, January 10 – From The Cutting Ed Podcast , host Tom Gerhardt speaks with Cory Steiner about customized learning. Steiner is superintendent at Northern Cass. The school is piloting a three-year program aimed at meeting students where they’re at. ~~~ Millions of people are unable to control their eating, says Joan Ifland, PhD. She calls it a food addiction, with a cycle of craving, overeating, remorse and self-loathing. She joins us to discuss the problem and how to break the cycle.

Vision West ND , a consortium of the energy producing counties in western North Dakota recently commissioned an updated study to help them plan for future employment, population, and housing needs. Here to discuss this updated outlook is Deb Nelson of DLN Consulting , a Dickinson firm serving as administrator for the Vision West group. ~~~ The problem of sex trafficking is often an unrecognized problem, but in 2016, 72,000 ads appeared on Back Page selling women or children in North Dakota. Here

Monday, January 8 – “Into the Amazon” is a new television documentary from American Experience. It’s the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing expedition down a tributary of the Amazon River . It debuts tomorrow night on PBS at 8 central. Clay Jenkinson is one of the scholars interviewed, and he joins us to discuss his involvement with the project. Clay is a distinguished scholar of the humanities at Bismarck State College and the founder of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State

Friday, January 5 - Cass Clay Food Partners and Ugly Food of the North are two organizations working to create healthy, sustainable food systems. They launched a speaker’s series this morning.We hear from three members of the group Growing Together, A Community Garden Ministry. ~~~ We share an excerpt from this week’s Prairie Pulse television show as guest host Barb Gravel visits with Maureen Kelly Jonason, the executive director of the Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center. ~~~ In a Natural

Cass Clay Food Partners and Ugly Food of the North are two organizations working to create healthy, sustainable food systems. They launched a speaker’s series this morning. We hear from three members of the group Growing Together, A Community Garden Ministry.

Thursday, January 4 – Earlier on Main Street we previewed the new Cutting Ed Podcast , a collaboration of North Dakota United, Prairie Public, the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction and philanthropist Ted Dintersmith. We’ll be airing portions of those conversations, and today we feature host Tom Gerhardt’s visit with Governor Doug Burgum. ~~~ The sales of grass fed beef have soared in recent years. Fans say raising cattle as much as possible on grass, instead of bulking them up with

Jill Weise of the band Cotton Wood stops by for a preview of the Blizzard Bluegrass weekend.

Wednesday, January 3 – Could geoengineering mitigate the effects of climate change? It’s an approach inspired by volcanic eruptions that cause cooling by injecting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. Joining us is Dr. Douglas MacMartin, a senior research associate at Cornell University. ~~~ UND journalism professor Mark Trahant commentary as congress faces new pressure to cut federal spending. Visit Mark’s blog at TrahantReports.com . ~~~ Jill Weise of the band Cotton Wood stops by for a