A major focus of the Minnesota state legislature is rooting out fraud in government programs. We heard about a new committee in the Republican-led House and talked to a DFL Senator about a bill to create a new agency aimed at finding and stopping fraud.

Before he was former President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan was a star student in Minneapolis. We heard more on his Minnesota roots and where he thinks U.S. foreign policy stands today.

A chef is bringing African American food traditions from his home in the Low Country of the southeastern U.S. to his community in Minnesota. For Black History Month, he’s cooking up a workshop about Gullah Geechee food.

Our Minnesota Music Minute was ‘Cease and Desist’ by the band Crush Scene.