Minnesota Now and host Cathy Wurzer will be back on Monday, May 2.

In the meantime, you can tune in to MPR News at noon Monday through Thursday and at 9 a.m. Friday to hear the Westminster Town Hall Forum. Five speakers will talk about climate change solutions:

Noon, Monday, April 25: Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy

Noon, Tuesday, April 26: Danielle Wood, director of MIT’s Space Enabled Research Group

Noon, Wednesday, April 27 LIVE: Colette Pichon Battle, founder of Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy

Noon, Thursday, April 28: Lisa Schulte Moore, director of the Landscape Ecology and Sustainable Ecosystem Management Lab at Iowa State University

9 a.m. Friday, April 29: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert

If you can’t listen on the radio, the Westminster Town Hall Forum has videos of each program on its website.

Wally and Eric talk with Cathy about the Wild's playoff run, sports reviving a sagging downtown Minneapolis and the Wild's chances against the Blue Jays.

Friday, April 22nd, the U.S. Postal Service will honor George Morrison by releasing stamps featuring his work. Morrison is one of the nation’s greatest modernist artists and founding figure of Native American modernism. Minnesota-based painter, Hazel Belvo was married to George Morrison and she speaks with Cathy Wurzer about Morrison's life, work and love of stamps.

The new book “A Kid’s Guide to Saving the Planet” was written by long time Twin Cities meteorologist, broadcaster and entrepreneur Paul Douglas. He talks with Cathy Wurzer about writing a book to help young people understand climate change so they can get active on the issue.

With this wet and chilly spring, it may be hard to remember the dry drought-ridden summer of last year. Jeffrey Strock, a professor at the University of Minnesota’s Southwest Research and Outreach Center, talks with Cathy Wurzer about the drought outlook for spring and summer, drought trends connected to climate change and strategies to keep moisture in the soil.

Sven Sundgaard talk with Cathy Wurzer about the extended weather forecast for Minnesota.

There are more than 5.3 million members in more than seven thousand Buy Nothing Neighborhood groups -- including here in Minnesota. Holly Anderson is the administrator for the Powderhorn neighborhood Buy Nothing Facebook group in Minneapolis and she talks with Cathy Wurzer about the philosophy and unexpected impact of the growing movement.

Graduating seniors at North Community High School in Minneapolis are getting $10,000 in scholarship money from Pillsbury United Communities. Adair Mosley, President and CEO of Pillsbury United Communities, talks with Cathy Wurzer about why and how he raised the money and how other communities can too.

Jewish Americans have sprung into action to help those going through a nightmare similar to what many of their ancestors endured in the Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Cathy Wurzer speaks with Journalist Lev Gringauz, editorial fellow at the magazine "Twin Cities Jewfolk" and host of the news podcast called “The Jews are Tired.”

Avian Influenza in Minnesota has killed more than 2 million birds in commercial and backyard flocks and at least 12 wild raptors. Cathy Wurzer talks with Jeff Bender, professor at the University of Minnesota in Environmental Health Sciences and Director of the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, about where this might be headed.