06/26/25: Dustin Gawrylow is the Managing Director of the North Dakota Watchdog Network, and joins Joel Heitkamp to talk about property taxes. Read Dustin's latest article regarding property tax reform, as well as his other articles on his substack. 

(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)

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06/26/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined by Todd Leake, a farmer in central Grand Forks County near Emerado, North Dakota. They talk about the Trump administration's agenda to sell public lands, and dig into Governor and Secretary Burgum's work towards it. 

(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)

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06/26/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined by Cindy Mason, a children’s librarian at the Fargo Public Library. She speaks about a 1975 time capsule buried near the Fargo library that will be opened tonight!

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06/25/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined in the KFGO studio by former Fargo Broadcaster and KFGO Reporter Al Aamodt, as well as Jack Zaleski, former Editor of the Devils Lake Daily Journal and The Forum’s editorial page. Joel, Jack, and Al talk about current events including President Trump's dealing of Iran, how he speaks about media outlets, and Joel gets their take on the next generation.

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06/25/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined in the KFGO studio by Jeana Peinovich, the Lend A Hand Up Director. Jeana also brings in the champion for the Maria Richard online Lend A Hand Up fundraiser, and speaks to that as well as a few other fundraisers. 

Check out these fundraisers and others on their website, lendahandup.org.

(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)

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06/24/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined in the KFGO studio by the Creative Director of Folkways in Fargo to talk about upcoming events in Downtown Fargo. 

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06/24/25: Ben Geman is the energy reporter for Axios, and joins Joel Heitkamp on "News and Views" to talk about the oil market, and how it's been impacted by the bombing of Iran. 

Read his recent articles:

Oil market's ho-hum response to Iran strike seen as "remarkable"

Trump urges "drill, baby, drill," but U.S. producers are cautious

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06/24/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined by Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak to ask her about President Trump bombing Iran and the current ceasefire, her town halls, tax credits for solar and oil, and more. Congresswoman Fedorchak is serving her first time as North Dakota's Member of Congress and completed 12 years as a member of the North Dakota Public Service Commission.

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06/23/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined in the KFGO studio by KFGO's Chief Meteorologist, Tom Szymanski, to go over all of the severe weather of the weekend and what North Dakota's history says about it. 

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06/23/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined by Jesse Jahner, the Sheriff of Cass County, after the weekend filled with severe weather. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office also released the names of the three victims of the tornado that hit Enderlin Friday night. Michael Dehn, 73, Katherine Pfaff-Dehn, 73, and 89-year-old Marcario Lucio died in the storm. All three were from Enderlin.

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