The Morning News with Vineeta Sawkar

There are so many food vendors along Nicollet Mall for Promenade du Nord and we chatted with a few of them as well as Adam Duininck, President and CEO of Minneapolis Downtown City Council about the buzz along the mall with these events!

This year's Olympics are in Paris and with the 2024 Gymnastics trials in town, we also get a taste of Paris on Nicollet - Vineeta chats with Mich Berthiaume, with the Markets of Promenade du Nord. She helps come up with the many, many vendors - over 60 with a Paris and French theme. 

No shortage of hits and runs for your Minnesota Twins as they had the hot bats swinging in the desert last night - Henry joins to recap a Twins win, recaps the NBA Draft including a #8 and #27 pick for the Timberwolves and previews a Twins prospect making his debut this afternoon!

Only about a day left of dryness before we could see more storms roll through. Paul joins us to preview the forecast for the next few days!

Vineeta chatted with Wendy Blackshaw of Gymnastics City USA and President of Minnesota Sports and Events, discussing the excitement of the big events this weekend in Minneapolis and what went in to making it happen! 

After several days of flooding and damage, Governor Walz declared a peacetime emergency calling upon the National Guard to assist with the damage in many of the affected areas in Minnesota. We chatted with Blois Olson on the latest with that and also asked Blois for any predictions for the much anticipated debate tonight between Joe Biden and Donald Trump!

Summer is in full swing and so many places are having festivals and celebrations for their town or city so today we highlighted Saint Cloud, MN and its Granite City Days - Alisa Schmidt is on the committee for Granite City Days and she gave us the fun details of the events taking place only an hour north in Saint Cloud beginning Thursday through the weekend. 

In today’s Twins First Pitch we chat with Dustin Morse who was recently promoted to Senior Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs for the Minnesota Twins - talking all things Cooperstown and Joe Mauer, Simeon Woods Richardson, and updates on Chris Paddack and more!

In this week’s Midweek Motivation, we learned a few valuable tips and lessons from Maha Abouelenein, Managing Director for Digital and Savvy as well as an author, talking about how to work with a purpose! This discussion is timely with graduation season here and so many people are beginning a new chapter. She tells us about the importance of working with a purpose and she even gives insight to those who are experienced workers as well!  

There is still a strong push in Congress for AM radio to stay in our vehicles despite some pushback - we talked to Wendy Paulson of the Minnesota Broadcasters Association about the latest developments and how listeners can still make the difference towards keeping AM radio in cars.