After a 3-week hiatus, it was just us Locally Grown co-hosts doing the show yesterday, yakking about a dozen different issues. It was our 50th show overall (woo woo! see the archives) and our first recorded at the studios of KYMN 1080 AM, downtown Northfield on Division.
Right photo: we had a live studio audience. [...]
It was just us three co-hosts in the studio today, yacking away about the real estate guide wars, news racks, sidewalk dining, outdoor smoking, and The Crossing.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
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Friends of Mill Towns Trail Board Member and Carleton Psychology Professor Neil Lutsky was our guest this week, discussing the latest trail developments and controversies.
Neil’s also been active here on our blog the past week, responding to my May 1 Begging for information on the Milltowns Trail post, where the comments now number 36 and [...]
Northfield Ward 1 City Councilor Jim Pokorney was our guest AGAIN this week. (Photo recycled from last week.)
Talk of the revisions to the Comprehensive Plan dominated last week so we asked him back so we could touch on other subjects: the library, the liquor store, downtown streetscape, the proposed ice arena… and of course, [...]
Northfield Ward 1 City Councilor Jim Pokorney was our guest this week.
And of course, talk of the revisions to the Comprehensive Plan dominated. Click photo to enlarge.
We’ll have him back on the show next week so we can cover other topics.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
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Our guest this week was Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, Executive Director of the new Latino Enterprise Center (LEC).
Regi talked with us about the Center’s mission to help Northfield “capitalize on the larger economic opportunity created through the growth in the local Latino population.” He also discussed plans for a Latino Civic Engagement Center.
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February 20, 2007 – 7:34 am
In this week’s show, Ross and I interview the new Executive Director of the Northfield Arts Guild, Michael Fallon.
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Click play to listen. 29 minutes.
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February 5, 2007 – 8:08 pm
Our Locally Grown podcast guests this week included (center) Ward 2 City Councilor Scott Davis and (right) Erin Mayberry, Recreation Coordinator for the Community Services Division at the Northfield Public Schools. Click photo to enlarge.
We first talked with Erin and Scott about Saturday’s Northfield Community Volunteer Festival in the Northfield High School lower cafeteria . [...]
January 29, 2007 – 9:50 pm
The discussion is continuing in the Downtown retail: struggling, thriving, searching message thread (now up to 86 comments as of tonight).
And with more downtown-related discussion on tap at next week’s NDDC downtown forum, the three of us tried to make sense of it all today.
We failed miserably, and got a little grouchy.
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January 23, 2007 – 10:02 pm
Northfield City Administrator Al Roder joined us in the KRLX studios yesterday for a municipal update.
We made sure we got to Stephanie Hendrickson’s and some of John Thomas’ questions and then roamed all over the map with our own.
Click play to listen. 52 minutes, 14 seconds
Our show, Locally Grown, airs on Tuesdays at 4:30 PM, [...]
January 16, 2007 – 8:39 am
Rep. David Bly joined us in the KRLX studios yesterday for a legislative update.
We made sure we got to Adam Gurno’s and Pat Allen’s questions and then we focused on local stuff, including the proposed ethanol plant and LGA.
Click to play. 33 minutes. Our show, Locally Grown, airs on Tuesdays at 4:30 PM, KRLX, 88.1 [...]
January 15, 2007 – 5:01 am
Our new 25B House Representative, David Bly (House web page), will be our guest on next week’s podcast episode of Locally Grown.
David’s got a new look to his DavidBly.com website and has a My First Week at the Capitol blog entry posted. He’s also got a new podcast (RSS feed here) which, thus far, includes [...]
January 8, 2007 – 11:23 pm
Today we were back in the KRLX studio for this week’s Locally Grown podcast recording session with our trusted colleague and producer Mathias Bell — the first time since Thanksgiving.
After the initial BS and a lengthy post-mortem between me and Ross about our plan for a male scrapbooking group, we took ten minutes to summarize [...]
January 1, 2007 – 9:36 pm
Here’s the 3rd part of our series of podcasts related to our interview with Dave Fellon, president of Progressive Rail.
(Part 1 is blogged here; Part 2 is here.)
The three of us did this ‘post-mortem’ last Friday in Tracy’s office. (The photo is an oldie.)
Click play to listen (28:25 minutes). Segments: 0-5:15: commuter rail; 5:15-11:00; freight [...]
December 30, 2006 – 5:31 pm
Eight days ago, we interviewed Dave Fellon, president of Progressive Rail, while riding the train from their offices in Lakeville to Northfield. (See the blog post of photos from that day.) Yesterday, we did a post-mortem with just us three LG hosts in Tracy’s office.
I’ve divided up the audio into three separate podcast episodes and [...]
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