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An unlikely dinner exchange between two not so different people...after all.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2010
  • Length: 00:08:04
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David looks back to his own college years and feels a stab of envy for this year’s freshmen.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:46
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Garbage is not generally the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about fuel sources. However, commentator Mark Blackmon says that where he...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:52
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When the bell rings, you are supposed to be in your seat. You are now one of 27 child units in a classroom.

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:34
  • Licenses: 1
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I was so lost, so bereft, I doubted my vocation. I wasn't worried about becoming a priest, I was worried about dressing myself.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:15
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School is like what the postal worker Newman from 'Seinfeld' said, "the mail just keeps coming."

  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:51
Caption: Walter's Office, Credit: Benedict Moran
Pop culture has recently been inundated with Bounty Hunters -- from a recent Jennifer Aniston movie to Dog the Bounty Hunter, now in its 6th seaso...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2010
  • Length: 00:09:00
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A short story about my romance with a young German actress back in 1986, based on my journal entries and her letters. Thanks to Noel Dinneen and E...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:59
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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: 00:02:32
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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: 00:08:44
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A diverse group of writers has been meeting regularly in a small coffee shop in Albany, MN for the past three years to create, critique, and caffei...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 00:29:47
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News. Where do you get your news? More importantly, who do you trust to deliver that news? Commentator Mark Blackmon says he's given up newspapers ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:05:12
Caption: Sarah Haskins at The Paper Machete, Ricochet's Tavern, Chicago, 8/14/2010, Credit: Kurt Heintz
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:09:16
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There's a world of difference between just driving somewhere and heading off on a road trip in that direction.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:36
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With scant regard for consequences, Guido and three pals decided they absolutely had to be in Washington DC by Saturday.

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:03
  • Licenses: 1
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The name's Corolla. I'm just a two-bit, four door sedan, living with a foreign label in a Minnesota union town.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:25
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Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. O...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:56
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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...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:26
  • Licenses: 1
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This is a special time of year for anyone who resides at the end of a dirt road, lives of the land, or enjoys purchasing deep fried foods from peop...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:18
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On this news feature, Arts and Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack travels back in time with the Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict’s “In The...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 00:32:04
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As a new federal report shows,unionized workers not only earn more than non-union workers, but also have much better benefits.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:19
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Those yellow forks that drop from the table of heaven, they strike us to the core with their terrible power.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:58
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The howler monkey starts a whoopin' and a walin' in Balsam. Using some kind of funnel and a great deal of effort, one could drown in a gentle rain.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:21
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Stormy weather brings out our animal instincts.

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:41
  • Licenses: 1
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Farm worker advocates have lost a major battle to grant the highly exploited workers the legal right to overtime pay that most other workers have.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:50