A statewide conversation with Minnesota’s Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan. It’s your opportunity to ask questions about Minnesota’s response and plans during this COVID-19 pandemic. This week the Lt Governor answered questions about mask mandates, reporting of cases, decisions to reopen school and leadership in the time of COVID. If you didn’t get a chance to send or call in your question this week email [email protected] or call 612-562-9895.

When we talked with Karla Theilen last she was at the beginning of the pandemic of COVID-19 in one of the hardest hit places - the Navajo Nation in Arizona. It's not over, but there's some light coming through. Read her essay from the Arizona Daily Sun.

This week on our Statewide Conversation about COVID-19 Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan answered questions about food insecurity, school openings, unemployment insurance, masking and the economy. This program is a joint project with AMPERS - Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities and the MN Broadcasters Association. Send in your questions [email protected] or call and leave a message 612-562-9895.

... In this heightened sense of anxiety, this heightened sense of the unknown...we don't have a clear vision of the future and we need to hold that close and give ourselves more space, more time, more patience ... giving ourselves grace and remembering that there's so much going on right now... we just really need to be kinder to ourselves... because of all the factors happening in our world. It's extra important to slow down, to give ourselves space to just be and to just process everything

Sarah Stonich originally released her book Fishing with RayAnne under the psuedonym Ava Finch. It's recently been re-released as simply Fishing! under her real name. Stonich will be the featured author at today's Brown Bag Author Series facilitated by the Brainerd Public Library. To be part of the event, go to the Brainerd Public Library Facebook page . To hear the author discuss her book, its characters, and how she ended up writing a story about a professional fisherwoman turned talkshow host,

KAXE/KBXE's Heidi Holtan hosts a weekly statewide conversation with Minnesota State Officials. It was an opportunity to ask questions about Minnesota’s response and plans concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, the Minnesota Department of Health Director, Kris Ehresmann. For more information on the states response to COVID-19 visit the Minnesota State's Website. If you’d like to ask the Lieutenant Governor a question email [email protected] or call 612-562-9895.

A statewide conversation with Minnesota’s Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan. It’s your opportunity to ask questions about Minnesota’s response and plans during this COVID-19 pandemic. This week the Lt Governor answered questions about school's reopening in the fall, isolation of people in long-term care facilities and pandemic fatigue. If you didn’t get a chance to send or call in your question this week email [email protected] or call 612-562-9895.

Kim Green is a board co-chair at the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial in Duluth . She talked with us this morning about the story of the black men wrongly accused and lynched in Duluth in 1920. On the evening of June 15, 1920, three black men, wrongly accused of raping a white woman, were abducted from the Duluth, MN, City Jail. A mob numbering between five and ten thousand people savagely beat and tortured these three young men, then hung them from a lamppost in the middle of Duluth's downtown.

In May we celebrated Mother's Day with stories of the impact of grandmothers on our lives for our Strong Women series. Originally a public event, COVID-19 had us come up with a new way of presenting these stories with hopes of reviving it in the next year or so, when we can all safely come together.

Nevada posted this on Facebook: I live within walking distance of Minneapolis Police Precinct. I have been onsite peacefully protesting everyday this week. I have been shot at with rubber bull ets, tear gassed, hit with percussion bombs and watched people hit with “soft” bullets (see below). I’ve seen the police advance on citizens using violence and intimidation. A man standing in front of me was hit in the neck with a rubber bullet and dropped to the ground. As we surrounded him to protect and