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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 03:04
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In the relaxation drink market, companies aren’t waging the usual battle over a single word like “energy”; instead they’re picking their drugs of c...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:57
Caption: Still have to visit the grocery store..., Credit: Susan Cook
Citizens are being reminded these days of everything they don't have control over. Any nutritionist will tell you that the one thing you always ha...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 04:02
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:16
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
Caption: Robert Saxton
In the first of a series of essays, Robert Saxton reflects on perspective and some of the unique characteristics of living in northern Minnesota. I...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
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The strange evolution of the iconic Pop-Tart.

Bought by WMMT and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 2
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Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 4
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He finally succumbed to the peer pressure of the pastoral society in rural Northern Minnesota. His recipe for Summer 2010.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
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He used to spend summer evenings shuttling back and forth between the deck where the grill was and the kitchen where everything else was.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2010
  • Length: 08:44
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A fair is so long so that you can get around to eat everything being offered. Eat your walleye on a stick, and then eat the stick because it's mad...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael asks, "Are we, ourselves, not bowls? Empty vessels always being filled and refilled..."

  • Added: Apr 12, 2010
  • Length: 02:35
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"I have my own version of the Golden Rule - Do unto others as Barbara Kingsolver would do unto you."

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Another adventure in the life of our hairnet lady, who is this week trapped at Publix between surly lobsters and manly beers.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:03
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David discovers a restaurant in Paris.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2009
  • Length: 03:47
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Proposal by PETA to replace cows' milk with mothers' milk makes Ian squirmy.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:07
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Florida's highly exploited tomato pickers are aiming at new targets in their nationwide struggle to win decent wages and working conditions

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:35
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This discusses the attempts of Burger King to undo agreements by its major fast-food competitors to improve the shameful conditions of tomato pickers.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2007
  • Length: 03:52
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David takes food very seriously.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2007
  • Length: 03:46
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A strong movement is under way to win decent treatment for the miserably treated tomato pickers whose work is essential to the hugely profitable fa...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 03:24
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Orange Juice: The transglobal nature of drink production.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:03
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This commentary notes the great need for President Bush to provide much more relief to the thousands of farmworkers who've been struggling to meet...

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Mar 15, 2007
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1