May Lor Xiong is running for the US House in CD4. She could use your help.
Here’s the link for the NARN 20th Anniversary Party.
And here’s today’s music list:
May Lor Xiong is running for the US House in CD4. She could use your help.
Here’s the link for the NARN 20th Anniversary Party.
And here’s today’s music list:
I’ve told the story so many times, I sometimes wonder if the details have gotten burnished in the re-telling.
Many of the things in my life that actually worked out, started as offhanded, sarcastic, frustrated or intoxicated jokes. My move to the city, my career, this blog…
…and, in 2003, the kind of “what the heck, why not?” vibe that caused me to send an email to the other principals of the “Northern Alliance of Blogs” and ask “Why not try to do a talk radio show?”
The answer was…well, “find the opportunity, and we’ll think about it”. I can’t imagine how far out of left field the idea must have sounded to the rest of the guys – John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson of Powerline, Brian and Chad and Atomizer and JB Doubtless from Fraters Libertas, Ed Morrissey then of Captain’s Quarters, King Banaian of SCSU Scholars, and – trivia alert – a husband and wife pair of lawyers from a short-lived blog called Spitbull whom Hugh Hewitt had added to the NAoB in a frenzy of solicitousness, who weren’t interested in doing the show, and whose names I can’t even begin to remember.
So on Halloween 2003, we met with AM1280 – and to my amazement, they were interested. On January 23, 2004, at a get-together with Hugh Hewitt at the long-defunct Billy’s Lighthouse in Wayzata, we got the formal go-ahead.
And 20 years ago today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network did its first show.
It was a very different production back then: I was the only one who’d done radio (other than King Banaian’s stint as a college radio jock), so I served as more of a traffic cop to keep people from stepping on each other’s lines and prevent the pandemonium that’s usually inevitable with these sorts of group shows.
It has, of course, morphed a lot over the years:
And it’s funny how talking about events nearly every weekend makes it harder to see the slow crawl of history around you. Brad pointed out on his show on Sunday, it’s hard to imagine how much the landscape in Minnesota has changed since the show started.
In 2004:
And writing that list, right there, was the first time in 20 years I thought “daaaaaamn. Thinks really have changed.
Anyway – I have to thank the whole crowd of people who made it possible:
And if you’re so inclined, the 20th Anniversary party is coming up on April 6th at Exchange Food and Drink in New Brighton. I haven’t thrown a party since the last MOB event in probably 2013, so it’s about high time to retire the running joke that the 10th Anniversary party is coming soon…
Hope see you there.
And thanks for tuning in all these years!
Here’s the online documentary about the DFL’s war on religious freedom in Minnesota
And this is the mini-documentary about the DFL’s attack:
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Today’s music list:
My piece on Ilhan Omar and the dueling translations.
Also, the piece on Buddy Holly I talked about.
And of course, today’s music:
Today’s music:
I recorded an “evergreen” Christmas Weekend broadcast. Merry Christmas!
Here’s the song list:
Anna Matthews joined me to talk about Cynthia Lonnquist’s race to replace Ruth Richardson in MN HD 52B.
Interested in helping out? Write “info@mngop.com”, or join them Sunday morning at 10AM at the McDonald’s at Dodd and Crosstown.
Today’s song list.
From yesterday’s show:
Liz Collin and the Fall of Minneapolis.
Also – condolences to the family of Mark Rice, aka “Mark from Saint Louis Park”, a long-time regular caller, and one of the few that the producers were told to always let on the air, because he always added great stuff to the show.
More on Monday.
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John Augustine is with the Legislative Evaluation Assembly.
Charles Kuchlenz is the Libertarian candidate to replace Ruth Richardson in MN HD52b.
Song list:
Mike Casey is running for the GOP nomination in CD4.
Jim Schulz, former MN Attorney General candidate, is with the Minnesota Private Business Council.
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Here’s the link to the Minneapolis GOP City Committee fundraiser, which Elephant in the Room will be at next Saturday.
Jessica Johnson is running for Stillwater School Board.
Find out more about the political and legal efforts re Minnesota’s new cannabis law at the ANC Foundtion.
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The review of the review of Liz Collin’s They’re Lying,
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Find out more about the new, reorganized Minneapolis City GOP.
Jim Schultz is with the Minnesota Private Business Council.
Today’s bumper music:
Want to find out more about Rep Hudson’s and Sen. Lucero’s carry permit fundraiser? Here you go!
And you can find out more about the Frederick Douglass Foundation. And here’s the
Here’s my series about my change of heart about public education.
Today’s music list:
Today’s song list:
I talked with Lacy Johnson and Rep. Walter Hudson about the Frederick Douglas Foundation of Minnesota. Learn more here!
Learn more about helping the Fabro family dealing with the Carver County Attorney’s Office in getting accountability for the alleged attempted kidnapping of their daughter .
And here’s today’s music list!
Here’s the John Phelan piece I talked about.
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Today’s music:
Find out more about the Wall that Heals, at Saint Thomas Academy, Friday through Monday (5/26-29).
Oh, yeah – Jen McEwen’s coming for your guns.
Walter Hudson schoolling DFL apologists on their legalizing of pedophilia:
And here’s the music list for today’s show:
Learn more about the new, improved, streamlined Minneapolis GOP here.
If you’re not in the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus – what do you want, an invitation? OK – I invite you to get involved. Do it!
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