Podcasts about Upper Midwest

Martha Raddatz reports on the U.S. military unleashing a new wave of attacks across Iran, striking "multiple targets,” according to Central Command; Alex Perez has details on the tornado watch issued for parts of Iowa, Missouri and Kansas as a multi-day severe weather threat continues for 100 million Americans from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast, and Lee Goldberg tracks it all out; in an interview with ABC News' Linsey Davis, Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei has issued an urgent warning about the dangers of AI, calling for government regulation as companies across the globe develop the technology; and more on tonight's broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, what the rain and snow are telling about PFAS pollution in the Upper Midwest—plus some information about new PFAS laws in Minnesota that could be a blueprint for Wisconsin. Host: Amy Barrilleaux Guest: Alexander Frie, Research and Fellowship Coordinator, Minnesota Sea Grant Resources for you: Amara's Law regulating PFAS in Products (Minnesota) Episode 62: What to Know about PFAS in Pesticides PFAS Contamination in Public and Private Wells in Wisconsin (Health Research Brief)    

00:00:35 Iowa weather history: May 1892 flooding and rare late-season snow/sleet event 00:01:17 Weekly forecast: Cooler with rain chances Thu–Fri, warming into Memorial Day weekend 00:01:40 Rainfall outlook: Light to moderate precipitation, heaviest in southwest Iowa 00:02:03 Frost update: No widespread frost, but isolated 32°F readings reported 00:02:20 8–14 day outlook: Strong signal for above-normal temperatures; slightly drier east, near-normal west 00:03:37 3–4 week outlook: Continued warm trend; mostly equal precipitation chances, slightly wetter southwest 00:04:27 El Niño discussion: Likely developing soon (82% chance), high confidence by late summer–winter 00:05:20 El Niño impacts: Weak summer correlation; possible cooler, slightly wetter Upper Midwest summers 00:08:37 Shift from ONI to RONI: New index accounts for broader ocean trends and climate change effects 00:12:22 Historical reclassification: Past El Niño events adjusted under new RONI metric 00:14:16 Recent weather recap: Active severe weather week with storms, hail, wind, and tornadoes 00:15:47 Storm impacts: 23 EF1 tornadoes, widespread wind events, heaviest activity in northwest and southwest Iowa 00:17:32 Weekly extremes: High 95°F (Sioux City), low 32°F (Emmetsburg, Sac City), heavy rainfall in Mount Ayr 00:18:00 Record rainfall: Mount Ayr logs wettest May on record with over 12 inches 00:19:34 CoCoRaHS discussion: Importance of dense rain gauge networks for accurate data and decision-making 00:22:43 Peak wind gust: 88 mph recorded in Correctionville 00:23:48 Crop planting tips: Peppers, eggplant, cucurbits, marigolds, and strawberry plug timing 00:25:31 Pest update: Low flea beetles in some areas; cucumber beetles and onion thrips active 00:26:07 Field conditions: Wet soils aiding crops but increasing weeds; cultivation timing important 00:26:19 Cover crop management: Winter rye termination strategies and timing considerations 00:27:17 Herbicide drift case: Damage to asparagus; guidance on reporting incidents to IDALS 00:28:44 Greenhouse issue: Edema in tomatillos from high humidity, not disease 00:29:12 Watermelon pollination: Grafted pollenizers improve survival and pollination success 00:30:16 SWD update: Parasitoid wasps potentially established in Minnesota 00:30:54 Disease note: Bacterial soft rot observed in lettuce after heavy rains 00:31:32 Events: Weed Control Field Day (MN) and TekFlex (MI) highlighted 00:32:11 Additional content: "Pivot Points" episode on farmer civic engagement released Podcast Summary generated using perplexity.ai

The Weekend Whassup for Friday, 5/15/2026! The Point keeps you connected to the top 19 things happening around Sheboygan! The Sheboygan Area Weekend Wassup is powered by Pleasant View Realty’s Kristine Hartmann! The Howards Grove PTO Spring Carnival is tonight (Friday) from 5-8. Food, carnival games, face painting, balloon animals, and fun for everyone! https://shorturl.at/Qguu1 Cleveland Lions Annual Brat Fry is today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday) from 9-5 at Dairyland Park in Cleveland. Cleveland garage sales are this weekend too! https://shorturl.at/QCp7Q There’s a plant sale at Plymouth High School tomorrow (Saturday) from 8:30-1. The students have been working hard to fill the greenhouse full of plants to sell. https://www.facebook.com/events/4253630061618254/ Racing’s past comes to life this weekend as the Spring Vintage Weekend returns to Elkhart Lake’s Road America! https://www.roadamerica.com/spring-vintage-weekend-svra Falls Community Church hosts a Rummage Sale PLUS tomorrow (Saturday) from 9-1. Brat fry, baked goods and lemonade stand too! https://www.facebook.com/events/1728913845200098 The Sheboygan County Homebuilders Association invites you to their spring parade of homes this weekend. Tour six featured homes to get inspired in home design and construction. https://schba.org/event?s=spring-parade-of-homes-2026-05-14 There’s a Fundraising Brat Fry to Benefit Camp Evergreen tomorrow (Saturday) from 1-4 at Racer’s Hall in Plymouth. Live music from Skyhouse, great food and more! https://www.facebook.com/events/26669499026053263 Sheboygan Theater Company Presents - Mama Mia on stage at Horace Mann Middle School with showtimes through this weekend. https://www.stcshows.org/stc-mainstage-shows/mamma-mia There’s a fundraising Brat Fry to benefit the Oostburg Public Library tomorrow (Saturday) from 10-2 at Mentink’s Market in Oostburg. https://www.facebook.com/events/797917736445709 The Fred Astaire Dance Studios invite you to check out the world of competitive ballroom dancing this weekend at Sheboygan’s Blue Harbor Resort and Conference Center. Public spectators welcome! https://www.fredastaire.com/wisconsin/event/great-lakes-championships/ Farm Wisconsin Discovery Center is offering FREE ADMISSION for teachers this month. They’re open today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday) from 9-4. Combine simulator, meet a cow and more! https://wxerfm.com/events/536083/ Come support the Schleswig Cadets 4-H Club selling hamburgers, brats, and homemade bake sale tomorrow (Saturday) from 9-2 at Piggly Wiggly in Kiel. All funds raised will go towards the operating costs for the cadets as they continue to grow and expand their knowledge in 4-H. https://www.facebook.com/events/2724486561265143/ Plymouth Dirt Track Racing action heats up again tomorrow (Saturday) evening at the fairgrounds in Plymouth. Pits after 2. Qualifying and racing after 4:30. https://www.plymouthdtr.com/schedule.html The Sheboygan Symphony Presents: America @ 250 tomorrow (Saturday) night at 7:30 on stage at The Weill Center For The Performing Arts in Downtown Sheboygan. https://sheboygansymphony.org/events/america250/ Upper Midwest singer-songwriter Luke Callen celebrates the Sheboygan release of his new album Fool’s Spring with a live performance at Paradigm Coffee and Music tomorrow (Saturday) at 7. https://wxerfm.com/events/542934/ Sheboygan North High Wrestling Team Brat Fry is Sunday from 10-3:30 at Festival Foods in Sheboygan. They’re raising money for new equipment. https://wxerfm.com/events/546666/ The Cascade Fire Department Hosts a car show and fundraiser, Sunday from 11-5. Grilled burgers, brats, chips, desserts, soda, water and beer. Meat and Bucket Raffles! https://www.facebook.com/events/801-madison-ave-cascade-wi The Lincoln Erdman PTO Brat Fry is Sunday from 11-5 at 3 Sheeps in Sheboygan. It’ll feature the Sheboygan North Drumline and the Sheboygan North Jazz Band. https://wxerfm.com/events/544274/ Food Trucks are back at BOTH Vollrath and Kiwanis Parks on Monday evenings from 4-8 through the summer! https://visitsheboygan.com/event/food-truck-mondays/57/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Trump administration is preparing to temporarily lower tariffs on imported beef in an effort to ease record-high beef prices for American consumers. That news on Monday sent cattle futures on a wild ride that ended well off of session lows, as some early week cash cattle trade surfaced on the day as well. John Heinberg with Total Farm Marketing joins us to discuss the livestock and grain trade to start the week, including a look ahead to the May WASDE Report, US/China meeting and more on tap this week. Find more online at https://www.totalfarmmarketing.com. Could we see a warmup in the weather pattern to help propel more spring planting this week? What about the early week frost concerns in the Upper Midwest? Eric Snodgrass with Nutrien Ag Solutions joins us to discuss on our Weekly Weather Update as we look at U.S. weather, updates for South America and Europe and more. Find more at https://www.ag-wx.com. In Segment One, we also get some market perspective from Tyler Schau with AgMarket.net and Arlan Suderman with StoneX at the top of the show.

Planting season is moving forward, but late April and early May are bringing plenty of questions for corn, soybeans, and grain marketing decisions. In this Weekly Market Outlook from The Ag View Pitch, we break down where acreage may still shift, how planting progress differs across the Corn Belt, and what farmers should be watching as the market reacts to weather, demand, and upcoming USDA reports.This episode covers corn acreage expectations, possible soybean acreage shifts, delayed planting conditions in parts of the Upper Midwest, and why large acreage changes may be less likely as southern crops continue moving ahead. We also discuss new crop marketing strategy, old crop grain decisions, storage management, cash flow needs, and why many producers may want to have bins cleaned out by the Fourth of July.On the market side, the conversation looks at strong corn export demand, fund positioning, drought concerns, soybean crush margins, biofuel demand, wheat crop conditions in Kansas, and the upcoming May USDA WASDE report. If you are a farmer trying to manage old crop sales, new crop pricing opportunities, planting risk, or grain storage decisions, this episode provides a practical look at the week ahead.

Scott Stipetich, Senior Precision Ag and Conservation Specialist for Pheasants Forever in Wisconsin, joins Tyler and Matt to unpack how yield and profitability data are reshaping habitat conservation on working farms. We dig into identifying marginal cropland, converting unprofitable acres into prairie strips, pollinator plantings, and wetland restoration, and why wider habitat corridors mean better nesting success against fox, skunk, and coyote predation. A must-listen for upland hunters, landowners, farmers, and anyone interested in pheasant habitat, CRP, and practical farm conservation in the Upper Midwest. If you are looking for more information on the topics in this episode, check out these links: Pheasants Forever - Find A Biologist Precision Ag & Conservation in Wisconsin Story Map Precision Ag & Conservation in Wisconsin Minidocumentary Check out the following links for even more content: Instagram Facebook Youtube More About the Upduck Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's episode of WeatherBrains is all about Colorado weather! Tonight's show features Guest WeatherBrain and Colorado State Climatologist Dr. Russ Schumacher.  He's also a Professor at Colorado State University and is Director of the Colorado Climate Center.  He's been involved in extreme precipitation, weather prediction, and is the guru of Colorado weather.  Dr. Schumaker, welcome to the show! Second Guest WeatherBrain is the project manager of CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network).  He is the CoCoRaHS East Central Region Illinois State Coordinator and has been an active observer in Illinois for over 19 years.  He retired as the director of the MRCC and is a big fan of winter weather.  Steve Hilberg, thanks for joining us tonight! Third Guest WeatherBrain Noah Newman is a Research Associate with the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University.  He's been the Education Coordinator at CoCoRaHS since 2008, and has teaching experience from astronomy to rocketry to various Earth sciences.  Noah, welcome to WeatherBrains! Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. Upper Midwest severe weather event (03:00) What is it like to be a State Climatologist?  (07:00) 2019 Colorado hail record (14:30) How did Noah get into meteorology?  (24:30) Deep dive into CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network) (27:00) Snowfall vs snow depth and the confusion between them (41:00) CoCoRaHS Significant Weather Reports (48:45) Moderate risk busts vs overachieving conditional systems (57:00) Dr. Schumacher's current research in Colorado (01:05:00) Process to get involved at CoCoRaHS (01:10:00) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:15:30) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (01:18:15) E-Mail Segment (01:20:00) and more! Web Sites from Episode 1056:   CoCoRaHS Alabama Weather Network Picks of the Week: Steve Hilberg - Ag Weather Noah Newman - CoCoRaHS Data Explorer Dr. Russ Schumacher - CoCoRaHS All About Hail James Aydelott - NWS Norman Observed Sounding Jen Narramore - County Road 69 Tornado April 15th, 2011 Rick Smith - Out Troy Kimmel - Out Kim Klockow-McClain - Reed Timmer tornado video John Gordon - NWS Louisville Shareholders Report 2025 Bill Murray - Out James Spann - James Spann on X: Emmetsburg, IA tornado video The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, John Gordon, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.

Today's EM Morning Brief covers an active multi-day severe weather outbreak across the Southern Plains and into the Upper Midwest, with confirmed tornadoes in Kansas and Minnesota and an enhanced threat continuing through Tuesday. Emergency operations continue in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands under Super Typhoon Sinlaku, with a Presidential emergency declaration in effect. NIFC is at Preparedness Level 2, with active large fires on the Southern Plains and a growing wildfire near the Colorado–New Mexico border. USGS reports Kīlauea's eruption paused, while three Alaska volcanoes remain at elevated alert levels. CISA adds a new Adobe Acrobat vulnerability to the KEV catalog, and CDC's HAN on medetomidine in illicit fentanyl remains active. EM Morning Brief is your concise daily update on national and state-by-state emergency management news. Produced by Sitch Radio, an EOC Voices podcast.Key Takeaways* Multi-day severe weather outbreak is the top national concern, stretching from the Southern Plains into the Upper Midwest; confirmed tornadoes and damage reported in Kansas (Ottawa, minor injuries in Franklin County) and southern Minnesota late Monday, with tornado watches continuing through Tuesday across TX, OK, AR, MO, and WI.* Excessive rainfall and flooding risk flagged by the National Water Center from the Texas Hill Country through the Great Lakes through mid-week.* Super Typhoon Sinlaku remains the Pacific operational priority — Presidential emergency declaration in effect for Guam (signed April 12), Typhoon Warnings for Rota, Tinian, Saipan, and the Northern Islands, Tropical Storm Warning for Guam.* Wildfire posture is elevated for April — NIFC at National Preparedness Level 2; active large fires include Buffalo Gap (SD, ~5,400 acres), Horny Toad (TX Panhandle), and Glen Ferris (WV).* Early-season fire activity in the Southwest — Colorado fire near the NM border grew to ~450 acres; New Mexico maintains statewide fire restrictions banning prescribed burns, fireworks, campfires, and smoking on state lands.* Volcanic activity — USGS reports Kīlauea's Halemaʻumaʻu eruption paused after episode 44 (ADVISORY / YELLOW); Great Sitkin remains at WATCH / ORANGE; Shishaldin and Atka Volcanic Complex at ADVISORY / YELLOW.* Cyber — CISA added a new Adobe Acrobat vulnerability to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, triggering federal remediation timelines.* Public health — CDC's Health Alert Network advisory on medetomidine in the illicit fentanyl supply remains active guidance for EMS, EDs, and harm-reduction programs.* Planned federal exercise — FEMA biennial radiological emergency preparedness exercise at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station (PA/MD border); not an actual emergency.* Water advisory — Precautionary boil-water notice for the Island of Rota (CNMI) tied to planned water system maintenance.* Travel posture — U.S. State Department travel advisory posture remains elevated across multiple regions; operators with international deployments should re-check country-specific levels before travel.SourcesNOAA / NWS / Storm Prediction Center• SPC Convective Outlook — Daily severe weather outlooks covering the Plains and Mid-Mississippi Valley tornado threat• NWS Active Alerts — National map and feed of active watches, warnings, and advisories• National Water Center — Flood and hydrologic outlook for Upper Midwest and Great LakesNational Hurricane Center / NWS Guam• NWS Guam / WFO GUM — Tropical cyclone warnings and advisories for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands• Central Pacific Hurricane Center — Central and Western Pacific tropical cyclone productsUSGS — Earthquakes and Volcanoes• USGS Volcano Notices (HANS) — Current volcanic alert levels and aviation color codes, including Kīlauea and Alaska volcanoes• USGS Earthquake Map — Real-time global earthquake feed and magnitude filtersNIFC / InciWeb• NIFC Situation Report — Daily national Incident Management Situation Report and preparedness level• InciWeb Incident Information System — Current large-fire tracking, including Buffalo Gap and other active incidentsFEMA• FEMA Press Releases — Disaster declarations, grants, and operational announcements• FEMA Disaster Declarations — Searchable database of federal disaster and emergency declarationsDHS / NTAS• National Terrorism Advisory System — Current DHS National Terrorism Advisory bulletin postureCISA• CISA News & Events — Advisories, alerts, and operational cybersecurity guidance• CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog — Current KEV catalog including newly added Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilityCDC / Public Health• CDC Health Alert Network — Current HAN advisories including medetomidine in illicit fentanylU.S. State Department• Travel Advisories — Country-by-country travel advisory levels and recent updatesColorado• Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control — State wildland fire information and incident statusKansas• Kansas Division of Emergency Management — State emergency management updates and severe weather response• NWS Topeka — Local forecast office warnings and confirmed tornado reports for eastern KansasMinnesota and Wisconsin• NWS Twin Cities — Severe weather warnings and storm reports for southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin• Wisconsin Emergency Management — State severe weather response and county-level watchesNew Mexico• New Mexico Fire Information — Statewide fire restrictions, red flag warnings, and active incident updatesOklahoma• Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management — State emergency management severe weather response• NWS Norman — Local forecast office tornado watches and warnings for central OklahomaPennsylvania and Maryland• FEMA Peach Bottom REP Exercise — Biennial radiological emergency preparedness exercise noticeSouth Dakota• South Dakota Wildland Fire — State wildland fire situation and incident resourcesTexas• Texas Division of Emergency Management — State severe weather and wildfire response updates• Texas A&M Forest Service — Statewide wildland fire situation and active incident trackingWest Virginia• West Virginia Division of Forestry — State wildland fire situation and active incident informationGuam and Northern Mariana Islands• Guam Homeland Security / OCD — Territorial emergency management and typhoon response coordination• CUC Public Advisories — Commonwealth Utilities Corporation notices, including Rota boil water notice• NWS Guam Tropical Cyclones — Current warnings and advisories for Super Typhoon Sinlaku This is a public episode. 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Audio from our free seasonal tasks masterclass on March 31  Spring makes people want to rush outside and “fix” the yard, but we've learned that the fastest way to a healthier landscape is slowing down. We kick off with a practical Upper Midwest spring gardening checklist: last-chance dormant-season pruning for shrubs and fruit trees, a clear warning to leave oak trees alone once temperatures warm, and a gentler spring cleanup that protects overwintering native bees, caterpillars, and other beneficial insects. If you only tidy one spot, we suggest keeping it near high-visibility areas and leaving the rest of the habitat intact a bit longer. From there, we get into planting and maintenance decisions that actually make life easier. We talk about timing for perennials and native grasses, early cool-season vegetable seeding, and why “leave the leaves” still applies in spring. We also share our take on bed edging, why we minimize dyed mulch, when bird feeders should come down, and how lilacs are getting thrown off by climate patterns plus when to prune them without losing blooms. You'll also hear how we aim for a realistic sweet spot with natives while still leaving room for fun color like dahlias and gladiolus. Then we shift into spring lawn care: overseeding a bee lawn with clover and other pollinator-friendly plants, mowing higher for deeper roots, why we skip No Mow May here, and the hard no on Weed and Feed. We cover irrigation timing, power raking myths, and a simple organic fertilizer approach including the half-pound nitrogen guideline. If you want a yard that saves water, stores carbon, and feeds pollinators, this one's for you. Subscribe, share with a neighbor who loves their lawn, and leave a review with your biggest spring yard question.Save $30 on your first month of A Better Yard!Head to ABetterYard.org and use coupon code PODCAST at checkout to save $30!

On the KMOJ Morning Show, Freddie Bell speaks with Rep. Esther Agbaje about urgent legislative efforts to support Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), a critical safety net hospital serving the Upper Midwest. She discusses her upcoming “Ball Park” tax bill and the need for bipartisan cooperation as the legislative session winds down. Rep. Agbaje emphasizes that the future of HCMC impacts all Minnesotans, from urban communities to rural areas, making it a statewide concern. The conversation highlights the importance of securing sustainable funding to ensure continued access to essential healthcare services.

Heavy thunderstorms this week may bring hail, damaging winds, tornadoes and flooding rain from the Plains to the Great Lakes, disrupting travel and outdoor plans into Easter weekend. Also, rounds of snow and ice will sweep from the Upper Midwest to northern New England later this week, raising the risk of slippery travel and power outages as ice and snow accumulates on trees and power lines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, we delve into the remarkable experiences of Holly Burns, psychic, from the Minneapolis, Minnesota area, who shares her ongoing encounters with the Sasquatch people across the Upper Midwest. Living near a network of wooded corridors and rural landscapes, Holly describes how her interactions began to intensify over the past few years, leading to repeated activity near her property and nearby wilderness areas. From unusual gifting exchanges and food interactions to large footprints appearing in deep snow, Holly recounts moments that have steadily strengthened her belief that a Sasquatch clan lives closer to civilization than many would expect.Holly also shares a series of late-night sightings that left a lasting impression, including a moment when glowing eyes watched from the tree line and a brief video she captured during one of these encounters. Her experiences extend beyond Minnesota as well, with surprising discoveries in places like Utah and Wisconsin that suggest these beings travel along natural corridors stretching far beyond a single location.Along the way, Holly reflects on the intelligence and awareness she believes these beings possess and the unusual ways they communicate with those who notice them. Her story offers a detailed look into what it might be like to live near a Sasquatch clan while slowly building a connection with something rarely seen and even more rarely understoodJoin us as we explore Holly's ongoing journey in Minnesota and the growing mystery surrounding Sasquatch activity in places many people pass through every day without ever realizing what might be watching from the woods.Resources: https://www.youtube.com/@hollyburnspsychic1523https://www.instagram.com/hollyburnspsychic/https://www.facebook.com/Hollyburnspsychichttps://www.hollyburnspsychic.com/

Prairie Musicians returns for Season 18, showcasing Upper Midwest talent, while Prairie Plates explores Fargo's food scene—from cheese boards to the rising tinned fish trend.

Today on America in the MorningTrump Finds No Help For Strait Of Hormuz Plans In a Monday press conference, President Trump discussed the war with Iran, but also vented frustration with a number of America's allies over their reluctance to aid the US military in getting ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz and getting Middle East oil to its destinations.  Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports President Trump is urging other nations to help, but many European and Asian countries are rejecting his pleas.   Severe Weather & TSA Trouble The combination of Monday's severe weather in the Upper Midwest and the East Coast, combined with those tasked with providing security at the nation's airports still not getting paid due to the partial government shutdown is putting pressure on lawmakers to act.  Correspondent Julie Walker reports there were over 4,000 canceled flights in the US on Monday, and people waited as long as 4 hours to get through security checkpoints due to a lack of staffing.   Cuban Power Outage President Trump is again considering action against Cuba as the country suffers economic hardships and island-wide power outages.  Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.   SCOTUS To Hear Immigration Case The Supreme Court says it will hear another Trump administration immigration case, this one involving migrants from nations in the Caribbean and the Middle East.  Correspondent Ed Donahue has details.   Striking Slaughterhouse Workers About 3,800 workers for the world's largest meatpacking company began striking Monday in Colorado, and if they don't get a new contract soon, already costly beef could become even more expensive for U.S.   Trump-Kennedy Center To Close President Trump announced it last month, and now it's official.  The Trump-Kennedy Center will close for a massive two-year renovation project inside and out.  More from correspondent Rich Johnson.   Historic Nebraska Wildfire It's being called the worst wildfire in the history of the state of Nebraska.  More than 700-thousand acres of rangeland are burning in the Cornhusker state, and cattle farmers say it's leading to big losses that could stretch over the next few years.  Correspondent Joan Jones has the story.   EU Saying No To Trump President Trump's pleas to the European Union and other nations to help the United States work to keep the vital Strait of Hormuz open to shipping as Iran targets vessels and oil facilities in the region seems to be falling on deaf ears.  Correspondent Karen Chammas reports on E-U foreign ministers weighing up a decision of what to do to keep the Strait of Hormuz open in order to stop an energy crisis. Richins Guilty Kouri Richins, the Utah woman accused of fatally poisoning her husband with fentanyl, and then self-published a children's book on grieving following his death, has been found guilty of murder following a weeks-long trial.  Finally   There were some surprising snubs, at least one missing winning actor, and a number of controversial moments at Sunday night's Oscar's.  The details from entertainment reporter Kevin Carr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on America in the Morning Trump Wants Help Reopening The Strait As gas prices around the world continue to rise due to the U.S. led war with Iran, President Trump is urging allies, and a main adversary, to help secure a highly used oil shipping waterway off Iran's coast.  John Stolnis has more from Washington. Severe Weather In America Snow measured in feet in the Upper Midwest, severe rain and bad weather for the South and Midwest, excessive heat in the West, and record rainfall for Hawaii that has caused flooding and power outages for over 100 thousand people is wreaking havoc for a majority of the states.  Correspondent Julie Walker says from Florida to Minnesota, the East Coast and over to the Hawaiian Islands, mid-March is roaring in like a lion with more bad weather today.   Latest On Michigan Synagogue Attack The Israeli government is claiming they have evidence that the brother of the man who carried out Thursday's attack on a synagogue in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield Township, Michigan was a Hezbollah unit commander responsible for launching hundreds of rockets into Israel who was killed in Israeli airstrikes against the terror group in Lebanon days earlier.  The latest from correspondent Ed Donahue.   FCC Chair On War Coverage There's bipartisan pushback to a comment made over the weekend by the FCC Chairman regarding media coverage of the war in Iran.  Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.   Gun Seller Charged In ODU Attack In Virginia, the government is bringing criminal charges against the man who sold the Old Dominion University shooter a gun.  Lisa Dwyer reports.   Iran On The Sunday Shows In the Middle East, nations are responding with caution after President Trump called on countries including China, France, the UK and South Korea to join an effort to help protect ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran effectively shut down due to attacks.  The topic of the war with Iran and the shutdown of shipping was heavily discussed on the Sunday TV talk shows.  Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.   US-Cuba Talks There were protests in Cuba including the torching of Communist Party headquarters in the central part of the island nation over rolling blackouts and a lack of fuel due to the US effectively cutting off oil supplies.  Correspondent Cristiana Mesquita reports.   Powell Subpoenas Blocked The Department of Justice plans to appeal a judge's decision to block subpoenas issued to the Federal Reserve and Jerome Powell involving a criminal investigation that the DOJ claims has what it alleges as a mountain of evidence.  Correspondent Ed Donahue reports.   Talking About Higher Prices President Trump's Energy Secretary took to the Sunday talk shows to discuss the rapidly increasing price at the gas pump, but as Sue Aller reports, the answer from the Trump administration is that gas prices will remain higher, but not for the long term. Pain At The Pump Gas prices continue to soar by the day across the nation.  At one Chevron gas station in the Chinatown section of Los Angeles, regular unleaded priced out at $7-61-a-gallon, nearly $3 more than the city average, and about $2 more than the Golden State statewide average.  Finally   The Oscars took center stage in Los Angeles with a showdown between Sinners and One Battle After Another.  With a Hollywood recap, here's entertainment reporter Kevin Carr.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's episode, Brownfield broadcasters cover the ongoing Nebraska wildfires, the winter blizzard that hit the Upper Midwest this weekend, the soybean market trading 70 cents lower Monday, the latest trends in domestic pork demand, and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kelly Pederson, a Ronald McDonald House Charities mom, joins to share her family's emotional journey as her four-year-old daughter, Lacie, undergoes multiple heart surgeries. Kelly talks about how the Ronald McDonald House has become a vital home-away-from-home, giving their family a place to rest, recharge, and find support while focusing on Lacie's recovery and growing strength each day. She also highlights the difference RMHC makes for families facing medical crises far from home. Through March 17th, local McDonald's owner/operators will donate 25 cents from every Shamrock Shake sold to Ronald McDonald House Charities Upper Midwest, a promotion that raises more than $50,000 annually and helps provide complimentary lodging, meals, and essential support for families traveling to Minnesota and across the Upper Midwest in search of the best care for their children. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A whopping seventy-seven percent of Americans went to at least one movie in person last year. With a fifteen percent uptick in cinema loyalty programs as of late, and 115 wide releases set for 2026, the movie business is really having a moment. That is especially true here in our neck of the woods, something that can be attributed to the Upper Midwest Film Office. Today, they are the only nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing jobs and economic impact to the region through media creation, aiding filmmakers every step of the way, from providing incentive administration to connecting producers with local vendors to helping overcome production challenges that pop up. In fact, connecting filmmakers to the community has been their specialty since 1955, aiming in the decades since to advance the regional economy by promoting increased media production across the northern part of the state, helping make the magic of cinema happen in the smoothest way possible. With the Upper Midwest Film Office at the forefront of northern Minnesota's booming film industry, the future is brighter than an Academy Award. One key member of the team is Riki McManus, the Chief Production Officer. It's the perfect role for her, pun intended, and she has the resume to prove it, working in the film and broadcast industry for the entirety of her career. Now, she's taking us behind the scenes to see just what it takes to make a movie, and that, as they say, is show business. 

The Devil's Ledger Week of March 2 Winter is doing what winter does — and depending on where you live, it's doing a lot of it. If you're under 35 and living in the Northeast, this may be the coldest winter of your life. In parts of the Southwest, it might be the warmest. Here in Los Angeles, it's been suspiciously perfect. Sorry to our friends back East. The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week Apparently, Bigfoot is alive and well… and wandering along power line clearings in the Upper Midwest. Multiple sightings, same week. Tall, broad, covered in dark hair, walking upright before disappearing into the tree line. Either it's misidentification — or something out there really prefers utility access roads. On The Devil Within We begin a two-part series on the possession of Anna Ecklund, one of the most documented exorcism cases in American history — a story that may connect back more than a century and across an ocean. On The Ides of April Alexander reaches Egypt and starts naming everything after himself — cities, allies, probably his lunch — until his exhausted army finally refuses to follow him any farther toward India. On Criminal Mischief Carolyn covers the trial of Kouri Richins, the mother who wrote a children's grief book after her husband's death — and now stands accused of causing it. On Taboo Treasures The guys dig into the long history of executions — and how capital punishment has become one of the most politically charged debates of our time. On Finding Me with Josh Wolf Josh continues his daily pursuit of accountability, honesty, and becoming the best version of himself — one uncomfortable truth at a time. This Week in Horror The Bride! reimagines the Frankenstein story in 1930s Chicago, starring Christian Bale, Jesse Buckley, and Jake Gyllenhaal. Follow The Devil's Ledger for weekly updates from across the Evio universe — and share it with someone who likes their news with a darker edge. Because sometimes the strangest stories aren't legends. They're the ones happening right now.

Ross Willits is the Executive Director of the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Association. He swings by to talk about the modern state of Bluegrass in the Upper Midwest and to share all the details of the upcoming 46th Minnesota Bluegrass Winter Weekend. Enjoy!

You've probably heard of a watershed or a foodshed, but have you heard of a fibershed? On today's show, host Douglas Haynes unpacks the growing movement of farmers and fiber artists rebuilding Wisconsin's wool and flax textile systems. He's joined by Leslie Schroeder of the Midwest Linen Revival, Jane Hansen, a sheep farmer and Board Member of the Three Rivers FIbershed, and WORT's Talk Producer, Sara Gabler, whose article about fibersheds is featured in this month's Isthmus magazine. Fibersheds focus on what can be readily grown within a particular bioregion. In the Upper Midwest, that's not cotton or indigo, but wool and flax. These grassroots organizations nurture place-based relationships–between sheep, the soil, water systems, and the farmers and laborers who grow and process the raw materials into the quality yarns that fiber artists love.  Going local is a choice that supports the environment and local farmers at a time when small family farms need as much backing and better crop opportunities as they can get. Hansen and Schroeder recommend mending the clothes that you already own and avoiding buying synthetic fabrics that shed microplastics. Schroeder says to start small, make one garment from locally sourced materials and it will become something you always cherish. Hansen describes the work that goes into raising healthy sheep, including her pasture management practices and the process of prepping fleece to go to the fiber mill. She gets support from her fibershed and uses her farm to educate the public about the importance of locally grown textiles.  Though there are several cottage mills in the state, Wisconsin lacks the infrastructure that would make it possible for sheep farmers to produce wool at a commercial scale. We don't have any infrastructure for producing linen, the fiber that is derived from the flax plant. There's a healthy demand for locally grown linen, says Schroeder, but you'd have to grow and prepare it yourself at the moment. Schroeder hopes to change that with her grant-funded work to source high-quality domestic seeds, purchase and import harvesting equipment, and site a multi-million dollar mill.  You can learn more about wool and fibersheds by reading one of Schroeder's recommended books (Vanishing Fleece, Women's Work, or Fibershed) and find your local organization here. Jane Hansen raises Coopworth sheep in Ogema, WI. She is a board member of the Three Rivers Fibershed, Northern Pines fibershed and Embrace (a domestic and sexual violence advocacy service provider in a 4 county region of Northern WI). She is also an active member of Wisconsin Farmers Union and host of a monthly Fiber Fun on the Farm event at her own farm. Leslie Schroeder is the co-founder of Midwest Linen Revival, an organization dedicated to laying the groundwork for establishing flax for fiber as an agricultural crop in our region. She is co-curator of the Field to Frock festival, co-creator of two teenaged daughters, and sleeps outside whenever she can. Featured image of the stages of flax production. Courtesy of Sara Gabler/WORT. Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Local Fiber Movement Is Re-Stitching the Social Fabric appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

Wildfire response constitutes the primary national concern as we delve into the developments surrounding the ongoing fires in the Southern Plains, particularly in Oklahoma's Panhandle and its western counties. The Ranger Road Fire, which has expanded significantly into Kansas, exemplifies the critical nature of this situation, with emergency management reporting substantial acreage affected and a mere 15% containment. Additionally, the state of Texas has received federal assistance for the Eight Ball fire, underscoring the severity of the crisis and the necessity for coordinated firefighting efforts. Concurrently, winter weather impacts persist in the Upper Midwest, complicating travel and safety for residents in those regions. As we navigate these pressing issues, it is imperative to remain informed about local conditions and heed official advisories to ensure personal safety and community resilience.Takeaways:* The ongoing wildfire response remains a paramount national concern, particularly in Oklahoma and Texas.* In Oklahoma, the Ranger Road Fire has reached an alarming 283,283 acres with only 15% containment.* Winter weather advisories in the Upper Midwest forecast hazardous travel conditions due to accumulating snow.* California experiences cold conditions prompting freeze warnings, necessitating protective measures for vulnerable entities.Sources[NWS Sacramento | https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?firewxzone=CAZ216&lat=39.732&local_place1=Chico+CA&lon=-121.842&product1=Flash+Flood+Watch&warncounty=CAC007&warnzone=CAZ016][Kansas Dept. of Agriculture | https://www.agriculture.ks.gov/Home/Components/News/News/629/17] [Oklahoma OEM | https://oklahoma.gov/oem/news/newsroom/wildfire-situation-update-2---feb-18-2026.html][NWS Duluth | https://www.weather.gov/dlh/][NWS Hazard Info | https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?firewxzone=MNZ012&lat=47.796&local_place1=10+Miles+NW+Schroeder+MN&lon=-91.112&product1=Winter+Storm+Warning&warncounty=MNC075&warnzone=MNZ012][Oklahoma OEM | https://oklahoma.gov/oem/news/newsroom/wildfire-situation-update-2---feb-18-2026.html][TDEM | https://www.tdem.texas.gov/press-release/2-19-26] [TDEM Disaster Page | https://tdem.texas.gov/disasters/26-0001-february-wildfires][NWS WWA Text | https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mpx&wwa=winter+weather+advisory] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emnetwork.substack.com/subscribe

On a warm-for-February day in Minnesota, Brad dives into two topics shaping today's dairy landscape: changing dairy herd demographics in the Upper Midwest and new research on dairy cow preferences for grooming brushes.The episode opens with a look at dairy farm numbers in Minnesota, where the state has lost nearly 37% of its dairy farms since 2019—dropping from 2,567 to just 1,622 operations. Brad breaks down herd size distribution, showing Minnesota remains dominated by small herds (especially 50–100 cows), even as the number of very large herds continues to grow. He also highlights where dairy farms are concentrated geographically, with Stearns County leading the state, and notes that seven Minnesota counties now have no dairy farms at all.Brad then compares Minnesota to Wisconsin, which still has over 5,100 licensed dairy farms. Wisconsin's dairy industry includes a notable number of goat dairies (nearly 400) and a small but interesting presence of sheep dairies. He walks through the top dairy counties in Wisconsin, illustrating how dairy production clusters in central, southwestern, and Green Bay–adjacent regions.In the second half of the episode, Brad discusses a new Purdue University study examining dairy cow preferences for grooming brushes. Researchers compared three brush types—swinging and rotating, swinging only, and stationary—and found that more than 75% of cows preferred the swinging, rotating brush. Cows spent several minutes grooming their heads, backs, and rumps, with rotating brushes offering the most engagement and relaxation. While stationary brushes were used mainly for head scratching, the study suggests that offering a variety of brush types may give cows valuable choice and enrichment.Brad wraps up by reflecting on what these trends mean for dairy farm viability, animal welfare, and management decisions—leaving listeners with practical insights and plenty to think about.Questions, comments, scathing rebuttals? -> themoosroom@umn.edu or call 612-624-3610 and leave us a message!Linkedin -> The Moos RoomTwitter -> @UMNmoosroom and @UMNFarmSafetyFacebook -> @UMNDairyYouTube -> UMN Beef and Dairy and UMN Farm Safety and HealthInstagram -> @UMNWCROCDairyExtension WebsiteAgriAmerica Podcast Directory 

Hello Interactors,Minnesota has seen federal incursion and overreach before. And not just in 2020. These removal tests we're witnessing are rooted in the premise of US ‘manifest destiny' and how quickly the notion of ‘home' can be made fungible by a violent state. But likeminded bodies always resist being bullied.SCAFFOLD, SOVEREIGNTY, AND SEIZUREOn December 26, 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln authorized the hanging of 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota. The execution, staged as public theater, was not a solemn judicial act. A special scaffold was built, martial law was declared, and an estimated 4,000 spectators witnessed the largest mass execution in U.S. history. The spectacle mattered because it carried meaning beyond Mankato. The hanging marked the end of the six-week U.S.–Dakota War of 1862. This brutal conflict devastated the Minnesota River Valley and left deep trauma in Dakota communities. It also conveyed that the state could swiftly and effectively attempt control of contested land by violent force.Mankato was the visible climax, but Fort Snelling was the quieter cruelty that continued. After the war, Dakota families — women, children, elders — were confined in harsh conditions near the fort during the winter of 1862–63. Disease and exposure killed between 130 and 300 Dakota people. Execution and exile worked together. One provided public power, the other attempted to ensure territorial outcomes.Here's what Dakota Chief Wabasha's son-in-law, Hdainyanka, wrote to him shortly before his execution:“You have deceived me. You told me that if we followed the advice of General Sibley, and gave ourselves up to the whites, all would be well; no innocent man would be injured. I have not killed, wounded or injured a white man, or any white persons. I have not participated in the plunder of their property; and yet to-day I am set apart for execution, and must die in a few days, while men who are guilty will remain in prison. My wife is your daughter, my children are your grandchildren. I leave them all in your care and under your protection. Do not let them suffer; and when my children are grown up, let them know that their father died because he followed the advice of his chief, and without having the blood of a white man to answer for to the Great Spirit.”This moral failing was part of a larger burgeoning political economy. In 1862, the Twin Cities were still emerging, with mills, river commerce, and infrastructure. Yet the region's future as an urban, financial, and political center depended on converting Dakota and Ojibwe homelands into transferable property. The spring prior to the massacre, in May 1862, Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, handing out 160-acre chunks of stolen land labeled now as “public.” Colonizers and immigrants could occupy this land, and be defended by the US government, if they showed they could “improve” it through five years of occupation.This act negated all Dakota treaties, seized 24 million acres of Minnesota lands, and mandated removal of what were now called Dakota “outlaws.” This converted communal Indigenous homelands into surveyed “public domain” eligible for homesteading, auctions, and rail grants, directly feeding wheat production for Minneapolis mills. Speculators and railroads exploited the act via proxy filings, reselling “cleared” parcels at profit to European immigrants.By 1870, non-Native population surged from 172,000 to over 439,000. The “clearing” of land was not metaphorical. It was the prerequisite for surveying, fencing, settlement, rail corridors, and the wider commodity circuits that would bind the Upper Midwest to national and global markets.That is what Harvard historian Sven Beckert calls war capitalism. He argues that global capitalism's ascent was not a clean evolution toward free exchange. It relied on coercion, conquest, and violence. As his book on the history of Capitalism lays out, state funded war capitalism fundamentally relied on slavery, the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, imperial expansion, armed commerce, and the imposition of sovereignty over both people and territory. In this framing, the Dakota and Ojibwe were obstacles to industrialization and commodification. The frontier needed to be safe for settlement and investment of Germans, Irish, and Scandinavians, as well as railroads and industry. This included these two flour mills, the world's largest by 1880: General Mills and Pillsbury.The gallows in Mankato were the blunt instrument that made the state-capital alliance credible. The point was not only to punish alleged crimes, but to demonstrate a capacity and will to kill. The American state needed to show it could override Indigenous sovereignty and reorder space. The subsequent removals and confinement at Fort Snelling completed the transformation. “Home” was recoded from relationship into asset. This land was no longer lived geography but extractable territory, from stewarding real soil to the selling of real estate.TOPHOPHILIA, TIES, AND TENSIONSWar capitalism is not merely to punish resistance, but to convert a lived place into a fungible asset. But violence plays a deeper role than just legal rearrangement. It has to break this constant of human life: our attachment to place.Behavioral geographer Yi-Fu Tuan borrowed the term topophilia to describe this attachment — the “affective bond between people and place or setting.” The phrase can sound soft and sentimental but it can also cause friction in projects of political economy.The state may be able to abolish or rewrite a treaty, redraw a border, rename a river, and issue new deeds, but it still confronts bodies that have been oriented by firm ground. It's on these grounds that paths are walked, food gathered, relatives buried, stories anchored to landmarks, and seasonal rhythms internalized as a habit of life. The obstacle is embedded and embodied in the physiology, including cognitive, and grounds to location.Modern neuroscience gives a concrete account of how place becomes part of a person. The hippocampus plays a central role in spatial memory and navigation, and research on place cells shows that hippocampal neurons fire in relation to specific locations in an environment. Familiar surroundings are not only around us they are within us. The brain builds spatial scaffolding that links location to memory, routine, prediction, and emotional regulation.When cognition is tied to the specificity of place, it becomes hard for a parcel to be made equivalent to another. Commodification demands interchangeability. A home cannot easily be made equivalent to another home when it's part of the nervous system — not quickly, not cleanly, and often not at all. When the state-capital alliance imagines territory as a grid of extractable value, it is implicitly trying to override how humans experience territory. That is why “simple” displacement so often produces disproportionate harm. Psychiatrist Mindy Fullilove coined the term root shock to describe the traumatic stress that follows the destruction of one's “emotional ecosystem.” Root shock is not only grief or nostalgia. It is a stress response to the sudden loss of the social and spatial cues that stabilize daily life. The shredding of a mesh of relationships, routines, and meanings embedded in a neighborhood or homeland.The root shock of the state violence of 1862 was not just incidental to the project of transformation. It was structurally necessary. If topophilia is a biological and psychological anchor, then a purely legal or economic strategy (bureaucratic coercion) will often be insufficient because the anchor of topophilia holds. To clear land at speed and scale, the state reaches for tools that can sever attachment abruptly. Public executions, mass incarceration, forced marches, and exile doesn't just relocate people. They're violent attempts to scramble the conditions under which people can remain attached at all. It transforms topophilia into vulnerability.Work on social exclusion and “social pain” helps explain why. In a widely cited fMRI study, Naomi Eisenberger and colleagues found increased activity in the anterior cingulate cortex during experiences of exclusion. This parallels patterns seen in physical pain studies where distress is tracked with painful activities. The point is not that social threat is “just like” physical injury, but that the brain treats social severing as a serious alarm condition. It's something that demands attention, vigilance, and behavioral change to overcome.ROOTS, RESISTANCE, AND REPAIRTopophilia doesn't end with the so-called frontier or attempts at ‘removing' its inhabitants. It reappears wherever people form durable bonds. That includes the streets and schools, churches and parks, language, kin, and the local economies and cultures war capitalism eventually built. The Dakota and Ojibwe were never “removed” in any final sense. Many live and organize in and around the Twin Cities today.In South Minneapolis, the Indigenous Protector Movement, a biproduct of the American Indian Movement, works out of the American Indian Cultural Corridor along Franklin Avenue — an immediate target for ICE. The protectors made their presence known as a form of ongoing place-based care and defense. It is a living archive of tactics for defending attachment under pressure through direct action, community building, patrols, and the mundane discipline of showing up. What it offers is not merely a critique of state violence, but vigilance without spectacle, care without permission, and solidarity as a daily habit rather than a momentary sentiment.Other areas of Minneapolis show how when federal enforcement turns public space into a zone of uncertainty, topophilic neighbors often respond by adopting exactly those same “weapons” of persistence — care, documentation, rapid communication, mutual aid — that have long characterized Indigenous resistance and slavery abolitionist networks.Standing Rock, where the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and allies gathered in 2016 to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline, demonstrated how quickly infrastructure can scale when a place becomes a shared object of defense.The #NoDAPL movement assembled a broad coalition of Indigenous nations and allies, over 200 tribes, alongside legal support, medical care, and communications systems designed to withstand state patience. The 2020 George Floyd uprising in Minneapolis also revealed how love of place can become a platform for organized care rather than retreat. Alongside protest, residents built mutual-aid channels, street-medic networks, food distribution, and neighborhood defense efforts that treated the city as an emotional ecosystem worth repairing. What looked to outsiders like spontaneous eruption was, on the ground, a rapid layering of roles that included medics, legal observers, supply runners, translators, and de-escalators. This ecology of participation made it possible for large numbers of people to act without centralized command.Social psychology helps explain why these movements generate allies rather than only sympathizers. One key concept is collective efficacy — the combination of social cohesion and a shared willingness to intervene for the common good. It blossoms when people repeatedly see each other act, learn local norms of mutual obligation, and build trust that intervention will be supported rather than punished. All rooted in topophilia.Place attachment can bridge boundaries that would otherwise keep people separate. Work in community psychology and planning shows that place attachment and meaning can support participation and collective engagement, especially when development or coercion threatens everyday life. In other words, topophilia is not just private feeling. When it's under threat it can become public motive and an engine for coalition.The coalition in Minneapolis is being characterized by the federal government as terrorists. This borrows from a long history of resistance to violence because war capitalism has never been only domestic. The United States and its allies refined coercive governance overseas through night raids and “capture-or-kill” operations in Afghanistan, midnight house raids in Iraq, and broader militarized campaigns that treat homes as “searchable terrain” and communities as “intelligence environments.”Many of the officials, contractors, and voters who authorized or normalized these methods rarely imagined the same atmosphere of violent seizure in their neighborhood. As unimaginable as it may be watching unmarked vehicles, sudden detentions, and public uncertainty coming to American streets — used against the very citizens and taxpayers who fund such operations — it's not to those victims overseas in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, or even inner city America.That return is what the poet and politician Aimé Césaire called the “imperial boomerang” effect, the idea that techniques tolerated in peripheral countries can come home to roost. In the U.S., the boomerang has long “landed” first on people of color. It emerges through surveillance and disruption campaigns like the two decades of the covert and illegal COINTELPRO program where the FBI targeted counterculture groups of the so-called New Left.Or the “Palmer Raids” of 1919 and 1920 targeting largely Italian and Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their left-leaning politics. These led to riots in 30 US cities and culminated in the bombing of the home of A. Mitchell Palmer, the US attorney general. These programs all reflect the notion that war can come home — just look at the increased militarizing of policing complete with SWAT tactics. And the same history that produced the scaffold of war capitalism of the past also produced reservoirs of resistance we see here and now. When neighbors anywhere respond to incursions not only with fear but with organized vigilance and material support, they are adapting older strategies of care found in Indigenous, abolitionist, and other movement-based defenses of people and places against infiltration, intimidation, and attempted violent removal.We can see how war capitalism endures. Mankato's 1862 gallows aimed to clear Dakota homelands of their people for homesteading, rails, and mills. Meanwhile, today's Operation Metro Surge includes thousands of federal agents raiding Minneapolis homes and streets, attempting to sever immigrant attachments to allegedly enforce labor control and national security. These militarized spectacles of warrantless entries, tear gas, and shootings echo what Beckert has uncovered. They treat people and place as obstacles to commodification rather than roots of stewardship.Yet topophilia also persists. These cross cultural rapid-response networks are not new to these lands, even though the US government tried to erase them centuries ago. The inspiring actions we see in Minneapolis reflect the values of compassion, positiveness, and respect for all relatives with neighborly solidarity that the first occupants of that land embraced. They're now woven with their allied 21st century neighbors in common and shared resistance. As best expressed here by Indigenous studies and political ecology scholar Melanie Yazzie. (and the longer version here) Minneapolis, like those acts of resistance in the nearby Dakotas, enacts and rehearses an alternative form of civil governance that centers mutual obligation over coercion and extraction. It shows how cities can survive the strain and stay alive — not through fear and gain, but through care that grounds and sustains. This is a public episode. 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Episode #1685 of Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran explores 12 Practical Tips for Practice Management with Bill Rossi. Bill Rossi is a nationally recognized dental practice management consultant with over 35 years of experience helping dentists grow more profitable, efficient, and sustainable practices. Through Advanced Practice Management, Bill and his team are actively involved in the ongoing management of 250+ dental practices across the Upper Midwest. Each month, Bill analyzes more than $30 million in dental activity and conducts 600+ on-site consultations annually, giving him a uniquely deep and practical perspective on what truly works in real-world dentistry. His approach is tactical, data-driven, and focused on delivering measurable results dentists can implement immediately.

Bankers, Realtors, the Land itself, and Personal Finances. All Key aspects to consider and shop around when buying land in today's Wisconsin or Upper Midwest market.

Those planning on travel in the Upper Midwest and the Northeast through this weekend may encounter some delays on the roads and at the airports, due to waves of Arctic air packing areas of snow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This podcast episode provides a comprehensive overview of current weather conditions and natural events affecting various regions of the United States. The salient point of discussion centers on the notable warmth in the western states juxtaposed with a winter storm impacting the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes. Additionally, the episode addresses ongoing freezing spray hazards in the Bering Sea and the current status of wildfire incidents, which remain low but are nearing containment in Kentucky, Texas, and Missouri. Other significant updates include new flood maps released by FEMA for Pima County, Arizona, and winter weather advisories for Northern Michigan. We conclude with a reminder to monitor local forecasts for any evolving weather situations and to prioritize safety during adverse conditions.Takeaways:* The National Weather Service has reported significantly above normal warmth across the western United States.* In Alaska, freezing spray hazards are currently affecting portions of the Bering Sea, posing risks to mariners.* A prolonged Santa Ana event is anticipated in Southern California, with strong gusts and dry conditions.* Residents of Pima County, Arizona, are encouraged to review newly released flood maps from FEMA.* Winter weather advisories have been issued in Michigan, warning of slippery roads and reduced visibility due to blowing snow.* Flood watches are in effect for parts of Washington State, where minor flooding is a concern due to recent rains.Sources[NWS Anchorage Marine | https://marine.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?product1=Heavy+Freezing+Spray+Warning&warnzone=PKZ414][FEMA | https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20260112/fema-updates-flood-maps-pima-county][NWS Los Angeles | https://www.weather.gov/lox/][NWS San Diego FWF | https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?issuedby=SGX&product=FWF&site=sgx][NWS Bay Area AFD | https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?issuedby=mtr&product=AFD&site=mtr][NIFC | https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn][NWS — Winter Weather Advisory text | https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=winter+weather+advisory][NWS Grand Forks/Duluth — WWA/HWO | https://www.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=fgf&wwa=all][NIFC | https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn][NWS Seattle — Flood Watch | https://www.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sew&wwa=all][NWS Seattle AFD | https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?issuedby=SEW&product=AFD&site=sew] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emnetwork.substack.com/subscribe

From the shadowy northern forests where the elusive Canada lynx roams, to the fragile prairies guarding tiny butterflies and rare orchids. Join us as author Adam Regn Arvidson takes us on a captivating journey through Minnesota's most threatened wild critters and plants.  In his book Wild and Rare: Tracking Endangered Species in the Upper Midwest, Adam shares stories of hope, discovery, and the dedicated people fighting to protect our state's incredible biodiversity.    Presented by Kinetico (kineticoMN.com/), Star Bank (star.bank/), FishUSA (fishusa.com/), Ebels Voyageur Houseboats (ebels.com/), & Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota (https://davmn.org/)

We're taking a look at the evolution of the crops in the region and how crops have changed in recent years. We'll see how climate change is affecting farmers. We'll look at 2026 winter weather.

As cold keeps its grip in the northeastern part of the United States, rounds of snow will continue to cause travel problems in portions of a dozen states into early next week. Also, big rain is poised to renew flash flooding in Northern California in the coming days. As freezing levels plunge and feet of snow pile up in the high country, travel over Donner Pass, California, may shut down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Donald Trump hosted Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend and then spoke by phone with Russia's Vladimir Putin. After years of war, could this finally be the moment that changes the trajectory? Plus, a powerful bomb cyclone tears across the country to close out the year. Snow, ice and fierce winds hammer the Upper Midwest, the Northeast and even parts of the South. And new video shows a deadly helicopter collision in the skies over New Jersey. These stories and more highlight your Unbiased Updates for Monday, December 29, 2025.

The Upper Midwest braces for a developing snowstorm. The end-of-year travel rush is on. Progress, but still no Ukraine peace deal. CBS News Correspondent Peter King has those stories and more on the World News Roundup podcast. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Whether heading out of town for hundreds of miles or just a few to the town center for New Year's celebration, there will be some trouble spots in the United States due to snow, wind, cold and rain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A powerful winter storm is bringing extreme weather to the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, and Northeast this weekend. 1,000 cancellations and 1,000 late flights.

Predictions pointed to a slowdown. The Upper Midwest answered with record-setting land sales, resilient equipment demand, and grassland values that surged on the back of a powerful cattle market. We break down why 2025 refused to dip and how smart marketing, live auctions, and confident buyers kept the momentum rolling.We walk through the year, from a fast start in Pembina and Traill Counties to a standout run in Cass County, where multiple quarters hit five-figure per-acre prices. Minnesota held a tight $8,000 to $8,700 band across thousands of acres, and South Dakota delivered wins where they mattered most: local operators secured legacy tracts, irrigated ground topped expectations at $11,500 per acre, and pasture demand accelerated as supply tightened. In the Black Hills, a rare Custer County property with direct views of Mount Rushmore demonstrated how scenery, access, and adjacency to Custer State Park can create its own category of value.On the iron side, the story was condition and representation. Magnum 310s, 8R410s, and S770 combines led a strong set of results, proving that clean, well-documented machines still command premium bids—even with historically high combine inventories. Livestock strength spilled into machinery, lifting loaders, balers, rakes, and portable panels. Most importantly, shifting our Upper Midwest sale from timed online to a live, multi-platform format unlocked fivefold growth, blended the urgency of the chant with nationwide reach, and showed exactly how to build competition without forcing consignors to move equipment.You'll hear how we structure complex multi-parcel ranches by following natural boundaries—water, fence, power, access—to protect legacy while widening the buyer pool. We also unpack a simple truth: fewer registered bidders doesn't mean fewer buyers when confidence is high and information is clear. If you care about farmland values, pasture demand, high-horsepower tractors, and the future of live auctions, this recap is your roadmap for 2026.Enjoyed the show? Follow, subscribe, and leave a quick review. Share this episode with a friend who watches land and equipment markets as closely as you do.Follow at www.americalandauctioneer.com and on Instagram & FacebookContact the team at Pifer's

The roar of engines is just the opening note. What started as a handful of car lovers swapping stories in the 1970s has become a weekend that fills Bowman's Main Street, books every hotel, and draws families from across the Upper Midwest. We sit down with Ryan Shear and Kevin Hilton from the Dakota Territory Car Club to share how a leadership reset and a back-to-basics approach transformed a small-town show into a regional anchor between Bismarck-Mandan and Cool Deadwood Nights.We dig into the club's secret sauce: show up, help out, and make it easy for people to belong. Membership swelled from a few dozen to nearly 200, with more than half joining for the social life as much as the chrome. Along the way, the club turned community need into action—staffing parades, serving burgers at show-and-shines, running indoor trunk-or-treat when the weather bites, and raising over $14,000 in one evening for a local medical benefit. That service-first mindset powers a weekend designed for neighbors and travelers alike: Friday night socials with pre-registration and vehicle previews, a Saturday morning breakfast, streets lined with cars, and kids' games that keep the youngest gearheads smiling.We also spotlight the classic car auction that now caps at 50 lots for quality and pace. It's a Main Street spectacle that draws bidders from across the country and sends cars to new garages far beyond county lines. When the sun drops, the stage lights up for a free concert funded by local donors and sponsors—a promise that keeps the event welcoming and the sidewalks packed. Expect practical details on dates, how to pre-register for free until June, where to consign for the sale, and why this weekend has become a can't-miss stop on the summer calendar.Love what we're building? Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves classic cars, and leave a quick rating or review so more people can find the show and join us on Main Street.Follow at www.americalandauctioneer.com and on Instagram & FacebookContact the team at Pifer's

Following a shooting near the White House earlier this week, authorities have confirmed that National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has died. A second soldier, Andrew Wolfe, remains in critical condition. The attack has renewed scrutiny of immigration policy. The administration has ordered a review of all green cards from so-called “countries of concern,” including Afghanistan.At least 128 people are now confirmed dead in Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court fire, one of the city's deadliest disasters in generations. Rescuers are still combing the burned high-rises, with around 200 residents unaccounted for, as investigators examine how renovation materials and faulty alarms may have fueled the fast-moving inferno. Officials say the fire engulfed seven of the eight residential towers after bamboo scaffolding and renovation materials fueled the flames.A powerful winter storm is poised to disrupt post-Thanksgiving travel across the Northern Plains, the Upper Midwest, and into the Great Lakes. Forecasters warn snow could spread as early as Friday and intensify through the weekend, creating hazardous road conditions and ushering in a sharp drop in temperatures.

Earlier this year, South Korea's government admitted that widespread corruption had tainted hundreds of thousands of adoptions from its country. Babies who were thought to be orphaned had living parents. Some children were trafficked. Paperwork was falsified. Records were destroyed.Korean adoptees worldwide were left reeling, including here in Minnesota, home to the largest population of Korean adoptees in the U.S. Many had already wrestled with questions of identity and racial and cultural belonging. Now even the small bits of information they had about their past could no longer be trusted.How are Korean adoptees who call Minnesota home responding to this foundational earthquake? Earlier this month, MPR News' North Star Journey Live project hosted a gathering of adoptees who are deeply invested in the search for truth about their origin stories at Arbeiter Brewing in Minneapolis. Moderated by Twin Cities PBS reporter Kaomi Lee, who is herself an adoptee, the panel shared their personal histories and how the work they do today is moving the narrative forward. Guests: Kaomi Lee is a reporter at Twin Cities PBS. She is also the host of Adapted, one of the longest running Korean adoptee podcasts.Ami Nafzger has been working on behalf of Korean adoptees for decades as the founder of the Korean-based GOAL (Global Overseas Adoptees' Link) and the newer Minnesota-based Adoptee Hub. Matt McNiff is the board president and director at Camp Choson, one of many Korean culture camps started in the Upper Midwest in response to the wave of adoptions from Korea. Cam Lee Small is a licensed clinical therapist who specializes in adoption literacy, working both here in the Twin Cities and online. He's also the author of “The Adoptee's Journey.”Mary Niedermeyer is the CEO of Communities Advocating Prosperity for Immigrants, also known as CAPI, a Minnesota-based nonprofit.Find a resource guide to learn more about this topic at MPRnews.org.

Earlier this month, Minnesota-based Xcel Energy announced it wants to double the amount of lithium battery storage it already planned to install next to its Sherco coal-fired power plant in central Minnesota. The batteries would allow Xcel to store energy produced at its wind, solar, nuclear and natural gas plants across the Upper Midwest.MPR News reporter Kirsti Marohn has been covering how batteries that store electricity on demand are becoming an increasingly important part of the transition to clean energy. She joined MPR News host Nina Moini to share more about her reporting as part of a weekly check in with MPR News reporters based in greater Minnesota.

As a child, riding, tinkering/repairing bicycles were just a few hobbies Mike enjoyed. But the woodworking project is beneficial for so many reasons. Yes it's fun but it truly helps children and adults with distracted minds become more grounded and able to focus.  Children collaborate and help one another, improve their math skills, use their hands, learn to measure and cut wood and so much more. But it was Mike's mother, Linda, who really concentrated on helping Mike with his OCD/ADHD.  He says, "she was very instrumental in trying to keep me active. It was very hard for her to see this disruptive behavior in her own child." Mike agrees that he was dealing with Impulse control negative attention issues.Education was very important to Linda. She completed her PHD when Mike was a teen.  She was determined to help Mike figure out what interested him, what his strengths and attributes were and decided to concentrate on those gifts. Linda's grandfather had been a Rabbi in Ukraine. Her father died when she was in high school and mother had dyslexia and had never learned to read or write, so all of her past, played a major role in her passion for a solid education. She was determined to help her son overcome his educational challenges.Linda got married at 19. In order to become a lab technician, she got her Batchelor's degree in Science and Medical Technology. "To show how important education was to her, she went back to school got her Masters Degree and then  in her 40's got a PHD in "Immigration History." Mike explains, "growing  up Jewish in Minnesota, was very rare. It was very interesting to see these immigration patterns that she lived through and seeing similar patterns repeating again today. Later on LInda started a historical society to study Jewish Immigration in the Upper Midwest.Knowing her son's interests helped Linda come up with the idea for Mike to help her when she was cataloging information from those of her Jewish community who had passed away. Family members had donated diaries and personal information. These tasks were very detail oriented and she knew that was one of her son's many strengths. He created a useful database.Contact Information for Maplewoodshop:Email address:mike@maplewoodshop.comFacebook -@MaplewoodshopNJhttps://www.facebook.com/MaplewoodshopNJ/LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/company/maplewoodshop/Instagram -@maplewoodshophttps://www.instagram.com/maplewoodshop/?hl=enTwitter-@MaplewoodshopNJhttps://twitter.com/MaplewoodshopNJThreads -@maplewoodshophttps://www.threads.net/@maplewoodshopYoutube -@maplewoodshop727https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpPIu2juABNjm_2ZoMjrx4wTiktok -@maplewoodshophttps://www.tiktok.com/@maplewoodshophttps://www.maplewoodshop.com/ "Should Have Listened To My Mother" is an ongoing conversation about mothers/female role models and the roles they play in our lives. Jackie's guests are open and honest and answer the question, are you who you are today because of, or in spite of, your mother and so much more. You'll be amazed at what the responses are.Gina Kunadian wrote this 5 Star review on Apple Podcast:SHLTMM TESTIMONIAL GINA KUNADIAN JUNE 18, 2024“A Heartfelt and Insightful Exploration of Maternal Love”Jackie Tantillo's “Should Have Listened To My Mother” Podcast is a treasure and it's clear why it's a 2023 People's Choice Podcast Award Nominee. This show delves into the profound impact mother and maternal role models have on our lives through personal stories and reflections.Each episode offers a chance to learn how different individuals have been shaped by their mothers' actions and words. Jackie skillfully guides these conversations, revealing why guests with similar backgrounds have forged different paths.This podcast is a collection of timeless stories that highlight the powerful role of maternal figures in our society. Whether your mother influenced you positively or you thrived despite challenges, this show resonates deeply.I highly recommend “Should Have Listened To My Mother” Podcast for its insightful, heartfelt and enriching content.Gina Kunadian"Should Have Listened To My Mother" would not be possible without the generosity, sincerity and insight from my guests. In 2018/2019, in getting ready to launch my podcast, so many were willing to give their time and share their personal stories of their relationship with their mother, for better or worse and what they learned from that maternal relationship. Some of my guests include Nationally and Internationally recognized authors, Journalists, Columbia University Professors, Health Practitioners, Scientists, Artists, Attorneys, Baritone Singer, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Activists, Freighter Sea Captain, Film Production Manager, Professor of Writing Montclair State University, Attorney and family advocate @CUNY Law; NYC First Responder/NYC Firefighter, Child and Adult Special Needs Activist, Property Manager, Chefs, Self Help Advocates, therapists and so many more talented and insightful women and men.Jackie has worked in the broadcasting industry for over four decades. She has interviewed many fascinating people including musicians, celebrities, authors, activists, entrepreneurs, politicians and more.A big thank you goes to Ricky Soto, NYC based Graphic Designer, who created the logo for "Should Have Listened To My Mother".Check out the SHLTMM Podcast website for more background information: https://www.jackietantillo.com/Or more demos of what's to come at https://soundcloud.com/jackie-tantilloLink to website and show notes: https://shltmm.simplecast.com/Or Find SHLTMM Website here: https://shltmm.simplecast.com/Listen wherever you find podcasts: https://www.facebook.com/ShouldHaveListenedToMyMotherhttps://www.facebook.com/jackietantilloInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/shouldhavelistenedtomymother/https://www.instagram.com/jackietantillo7/LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-tantillo/YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@ShouldHaveListenedToMyMother

Traditionally, a college degree has been seen as a ticket to a secure future.But not today. Thanks to soaring tuition costs and weighty student loans, many people are questioning the value of college. A 2025 Pew Research poll found that only one in four U.S. adults says it's “extremely or very important to have a four-year college degree” to get a well-paying job. And many young Americans — including Black, Latino and Indigenous students — contend they can build solid careers without seeking further education. In a 2025 survey by New America, a majority of young Americans agreed “there are lots of well-paying, stable jobs that people can find with only a high school diploma or GED.”So is college still worth it — especially when it comes to low-income or first-generation students? Is college still worth it? MPR News' North Star Journey Live project teamed up with Sahan Journal Community Conversations in October to host a panel discussing the pros and cons of higher education. They also discussed other burgeoning post-secondary options, like trade schools, apprenticeships and becoming an entrepreneur. Guests: Frida Torres Macal is the founder of That Social Invite, an independent social media marketer focused on helping women-owned businesses and professionals grow.Marquan Harper is a sophomore at the University of St. Thomas, where he is double majoring in Digital Media Arts and Marketing Management. He's also the founder of Ador Hospitality, a Midwest-based hospitality group dedicated to enhancing the nightlife experience for young adults aged 18-24. Jalayah Johnson is enrolled at the Finishing Trades Institute of the Upper Midwest as a second-year glazer apprentice for the Empire House.Ali Osman is a high school counselor at South High School in Minneapolis. Jessica Yang is the senior implementation manager at the Get Ready GEAR UP Minnesota program administered through the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.Subscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify or RSS. 

John Chang analyzes how perception and data often diverge in real estate investing. Drawing from fresh insights after speaking with investors in Dallas, he contrasts Texas Sunbelt markets with the Upper Midwest to reveal surprising five-year trends in rent growth, vacancies, and pricing. John breaks down why overdevelopment has dampened returns in high-growth metros like Austin and Dallas, while steady markets like Chicago and Cincinnati quietly outperformed. He closes by encouraging investors to look beyond the headlines, challenge herd mentality, and explore under-the-radar markets where fundamentals—not hype—drive performance. Join the Best Ever Community  The Best Ever Community is live and growing - and we want serious commercial real estate investors like you inside. It's free to join, but you must apply and meet the criteria.  Connect with top operators, LPs, GPs, and more, get real insights, and be part of a curated network built to help you grow. Apply now at ⁠www.bestevercommunity.com⁠ Podcast production done by ⁠Outlier Audio⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dean's chat hosts, Drs. Jeffrey Jensen and Johanna Richey, welcome Dr. Kelli Iceman to the podcast! Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she earned her Bachelor of Science degrees in Microbiology and Human Biology at Michigan State University, followed by her Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree from the Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine in Chicago. This episode is sponsored by Bako Diagnostics!! She completed an intensive residency in reconstructive foot and ankle surgery at Gundersen Medical Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin — a training that set the stage for her distinguished career in sports medicine, trauma, and complex reconstructive surgery. Today, Dr. Iceman practices with the Advanced Foot & Ankle Clinic across Minnesota and Wisconsin, where she combines cutting-edge surgical expertise with a compassionate, patient-centered approach. She is a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and a respected educator dedicated to mentoring future podiatric surgeons. Kelli also has a passion for AI, and its incorporation into the electronic medical record. She as been involved with a start-up and her insights are incredible! Join us as Dr. Iceman shares her inspiring journey from Michigan State to surgical leadership — and how she's redefining reconstructive foot and ankle care across the Upper Midwest. Enjoy!

In this episode, Rebecca talks with longtime friend and former economic developer Justin Neppl about what it really means to reimagine economic development for small towns. For years, economic development has focused on the same things, but the future looks different. This episode is about collaboration, trust, and people-centered leadership and how they can come together to update traditional models to make futures brighter for our small towns. About Justin: Justin Neppl is a community-focused entrepreneur from Breckenridge, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife, Jamie, and their three children — Karsyn, Easton, and Addy. He is the co-owner of Tiny Tykes Inc., a growing childcare company that has recently begun franchising across the Upper Midwest, with the goal of helping both small and mid-sized communities expand access to quality childcare. In addition to his work in childcare, Justin has partnered with local stakeholders to revitalize Breckenridge's Main Street and address community housing needs — from rehabilitation projects to new construction. Through his partnership with GFY Custom Crafts, he is helping bring affordable, high-quality housing options to communities across Minnesota and North Dakota. Justin is also developing a craft distillery in his hometown that celebrates the agricultural heritage of the Red River Valley. Outside of work, he enjoys hunting a variety of game with his family and coaching youth hockey in the local association. His passion for entrepreneurship and rural revitalization drives his mission to make small towns stronger, more vibrant places to live and raise a family. In this episode, we cover: Why traditional economic development models are breaking down Why sharing the load and tapping into expertise is better than having one overextended leader Real-world examples of communities leading differently Why boards, councils, and communities' collaboration can be the make or break  Why reimagining economic development starts with people Links + Resources Mentioned: Tiny Tykes Franchise: https://tinytykesfranchise.com/ GFY Custom Crafts: https://www.gfycustomcrafts.com/home.html Hankinson YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR6OvMUaaBY&t=425s Sponsor Spotlight: Brodie Mueller and The Market on the Plaza In small towns, coffee is more than caffeine. It's community! Market on the Plaza roasts beans locally in Aberdeen, in small batches for the freshest, richest cup to start your day or for an afternoon pick-me-up. Stop in to grab a bag for home or linger over a cup with neighbors. Proudly local, always welcoming. This week's Small-Town Shout-Out is: Hankinson, ND! We talk about them twice in this episode, one for their CDC's efforts, and the other is for a YouTube clip (see show notes above) that showcases what it looks like to be welcoming and proud of your small town. We love it so much, Hankinson! We Want to Hear From You! Some of the best parts about radio shows and podcasts are listener call-ins, so we've decided to make those a part of the Growing Small Towns Podcast. We really, really want to hear from you! We're have two “participation dance” elements of the show: “Small town humblebrags”: Call in and tell us about something amazing you did in your small town so we can celebrate with you. No win is too small—we want to hear it all, and we will be excessively enthusiastic about whatever it is! You can call in for your friends, too, because giving shout-outs is one of our favorite things.  “Solving Your Small-Town People Challenges”: Have a tough issue in your community? We want to help. Call in and tell us about your problem, and we'll solve it on an episode of the podcast. Want to remain anonymous? Totally cool, we can be all secretive and stuff. We're suave like that.  If you've got a humblebrag or a tricky people problem, call 701-203-3337 and leave a message with the deets. We really can't wait to hear from you!  Get In Touch Have an idea for a future episode/guest, have feedback or a question, or just want to chat? Email us at hello@growingsmalltowns.org Subscribe + Review Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of The Growing Small Towns Show! If the information in our conversations and interviews has helped you in your small town, head out to Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Spotify, subscribe to the show, and leave us an honest review. Your reviews and feedback will not only help us continue to deliver relevant, helpful content, but it will also help us reach even more small-town trailblazers just like you!  

In this episode of The Birdshot Podcast, host Nick Larson is joined by Jon Steigerwaldt, a Forest Conservation Director for the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society. Jon talks about the critical habitat work happening in the Driftless Region and northeast Iowa, highlighting the challenges facing ruffed grouse populations, the impact of forest management, and ongoing conservation efforts. From habitat restoration to dealing with invasive species, this conversation covers key conservation strategies while also touching on Jon's experiences hunting and training his bird dog, Hazel. Jon Steigerwaldt is a dedicated conservationist and upland bird hunter with a deep background in forestry and forest ecology. With a focus on sustainable forest management, Jon works with multiple states across the Upper Midwest to improve habitats for ruffed grouse, woodcock, and other species. In his role with the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society, Jon is directly involved in large-scale projects to restore forest ecosystems and support wildlife populations in the Driftless Region and beyond. Expect to Learn The importance of forest management for ruffed grouse and other upland species How dynamic forest restoration blocks help improve habitat for grouse populations Challenges faced by forest management in the Driftless Region, including parcelization and topography The role of invasive species like multiflora rose and honeysuckle in disrupting habitat Jon's insights into training bird dogs like his setter, Hazel, and the role of dogs in upland hunting Current efforts to revitalize grouse populations in northeast Iowa and other parts of the Midwest Episode Breakdown with Timestamps: [00:00] - Introduction [04:00] - Nick's First Ruffed Grouse Hunt of the Year [10:22] - Jon's Bird Dog, Hazel, and How She's Developed Over the Years [11:32] - Jon's First Big Dog [13:33] - Jon's Career and Education [23:01] - Parcelization and Landowner Challenges in Logging [35:51] - Invasive Species and Their Impact on Forest Ecosystems [44:50] - Forest Management After Natural Disasters [50:13] - Stewardship Agreements and Reinvestment Into Forests [57:28] - Upcoming Events and Community Management Follow the Guest Jon: Ruffed Grouse Society: https://ruffedgrousesociety.org/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruffedgrousesociety/?hl=en  Fall Membership 2025: https://ruffedgrousesociety.org/  Follow the Host Nick: Instagram: @birdshot.podcast Website: www.birdshotpodcast.com Listening Links: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/17EVUDJPwR2iJggzhLYil7 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/birdshot-podcast/id1288308609 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@birdshot.podcast SUPPORT | http://www.patreon.com/birdshot Use Promo Code | BSP20 to save 20% on https://www.onxmaps.com/hunt/app Use Promo Code | BS10 to save 10% on https://trulockchokes.com/ The Birdshot Podcast is Presented By: https://www.onxmaps.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Marketplace Morning Report” is breaking down the overall picture of the U.S. economy by zooming in on different regions and taking a closer look. Marketplace's senior economics contributor Chris Farrell reports from St. Paul, Minnesota, about what's happening in the Federal Reserve's Ninth District — which includes most of the upper Midwest. Also: Paramount Skydance explores a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, and markets anticipate a Federal Reserve rate cut.

“Marketplace Morning Report” is breaking down the overall picture of the U.S. economy by zooming in on different regions and taking a closer look. Marketplace's senior economics contributor Chris Farrell reports from St. Paul, Minnesota, about what's happening in the Federal Reserve's Ninth District — which includes most of the upper Midwest. Also: Paramount Skydance explores a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, and markets anticipate a Federal Reserve rate cut.