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Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
Over lunch recently my guest mentioned a friend of hers. Without thinking, I said enthusiastically, “That nut-case!” My guest almost chocked as she...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
Caption: Money Matters Award Winning Host Marc Cuniberti
Money Matters details the workings of the Federal Reserve and the blatant and massive theft it carries out on the American People. Evergreen for 20...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
Get ready to refuse a whole batch of requests for your time and money. It’s that time of year when you receive too many invitations to too many hap...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
Now that the elections are over, okay, okay, almost over, what should you do? Well, if you are disappointment at the outcome, then make it work.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
Are you torn between voting and not voting? Do you think it too much trouble to get up, get dressed, get fed, get mobile, get vetted and get voted?

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
As it seems to be about the economy, stupid, let’s start with a quote by a famous economist: “When confronted with the facts, I change my mind. Ge...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He like physical books and coffeehouses. And Anthony Sw...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
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Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller, writer, and poet. Following Paul Wellstone's death she wrote this poem to honor his legacy.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
This election season has triggered a quotation which is stuck in my head like a pop song. “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
Why do we believe that many of our problems will get worse or better after the elections? Depending, of course, on whether the better or worse guy ...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Broadband." The Beat i...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:25
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
‘Tis the season to hear people of certain ambition tell me how they will solve problems that I didn’t know I had.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Money Matters Award Winning Host Marc Cuniberti
Biting commentary that may anger some listeners. Preview first. Analysis leans right in this piece but still a Money Matters classic.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
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Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
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Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
As you struggle through this era of endless political waffle, play this game to help you focus on what matters. For one week, listen to the message...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
All these political promises and visions of futures without painful pathways make me nervous. I am by nature suspicious of loose talk without bindi...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
Guess what I like about sports and other games. They end; they finish; they last for a predefined, limited time. Remember when we had a time limite...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:00

  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Nonsense is a serious business
As always, the economy will grow after the elections, so be ready for problems at work if you stay where you are. These problems are triggered by ...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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Will Weaver grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota. He's attended St. Cloud State, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford. He was a Professor of E...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:07