We reconnected with our Locally Grown radio show roots by recording at Carleton’s KRLX 88.1 FM studio yesterday. KRLX station news director Brandon Walker coaxed us back. (Cameron and Morgan…
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Doug McGill, visiting instructor in English at Carleton, invited me and Northfield Citizens Online/Northfield.org board member Doug Bratland to his Truth vs. Power: A Journey in Journalism class this week…
Saint Olaf College administrators have decided to stop donating the institution’s money to Northfield non-profits. “It’s ethically troubling in hard economic times, with rising costs of higher education, to take…
As a logical followup to my earlier post on the “Eat Local” challenge, I was reading a report of the Slow Food Nation conference in San Francisco earlier this month.…
According to the Wikipedia, “the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), provides a suite of standards for…
The Amethyst Initiative got a lot of media coverage last month. Launched in July 2008, the Amethyst Initiative is made up of chancellors and presidents of universities and colleges across…
The Carleton Arb is awash in wildflowers. Areas surrounding the Rec Center are particularly spectacular. See the panel on the Arb Trailhead kiosk (right photo) for all the work…
Ruth Sylte, president of SaveWCAL, alerted me yesterday to a press release posted on their website titled Rice County District Court Judge issues Order in WCAL case. In his ruling,…