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If Listening To The Left Of The FM Dial At 9AM

Friday, January 27th, 2012

KFAI Radio on the West Bank will be running an interview with me by Allison Herrera on their 9AM “Weekly News” show.  The subject was Voter ID.

KFAI reaching out for conservative counterpoint?  That’s not the KFAI I used to volunteer at!

I will try to tune in on the stream, work schedule permitting – although if there’s anything I hate more than hearing my recorded voice, it’s my voice as recorded after being filtered through a cheap cell phone.  But what the heck, I’m game.

Anyway, check it out.

I Heard It On The NARN

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

The Rally for School Choice is Thursday at 10AM on the Capitol Steps.

Northern Alliance Radio Network

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism!

  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – is on from 1-3 on Sunday.
  • Ed and I cover things from 9-11AM.  Today we’ll have Speaker of the House Kurt Zellers and House Majority Leader Matt Dean on the show to talk about the GOP’s plans in the session starting next week.  We’ll also be talking with Rep. Kelby Woodard, talking about the Rally for School Choice, and the legislation supporting choice in education.
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream) .
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

We Learned More From A Three Minute Record Than We Ever Learned In School

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

 Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network goes on the road – to the Restoring Excellence in Education forum at Saint Cloud State!

Ed and I will be there from 1-3, with a variety of guests talking about how, exactly, we fix our system of education.

And of course, don’t forget…:

  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – is on from 1-3 on Sunday.
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream) .
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

Don’t Forget!

Friday, January 13th, 2012

If you’re in Saint Cloud tomorrow, join Ed and me as we broadcast from the Restoring Excellence in Education forum at Saint Cloud State.

And if you can’t make it to St. Cloud – well, that’s why we’re broadcasting live!

More tomorrow.

If In St. Cloud This Weekend

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

The NARN will be occupying St. Cloud State this Saturday from 1-3PM for the Restoring Excellence In Education forum.

The forum will deal with the need for, and avenuies of, reform for primary/secondary and higher education.

Ed and I will join our friend, former radio colleague, talk show host, professor and state Rep. King Banaian and an array of other great guests on the subject “Why is the education system broken, and how do we fix it?”

It’s a hot topic for most of us.

Hope to see you there.  If not, tune in!

I Heard It On The NARN

Saturday, January 7th, 2012

Dave Osmek is running for State Senate.  Check out his campaign – and feel free to pony up a few bucks – at his campaign website.

And look here for more info on the Jack Jablonski situation.  Jack was gravely injured in a hockey accident about a week ago.  .And the American Spinal Injury Association is right here.

I Said It Out Loud, Out Loud In A Crowd

Saturday, January 7th, 2012

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism!

  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – is on from 1-3 on Sunday.
  • Ed is in New Hampshire, and as this is written might join us from a studio in Nassagawpahaqua Crossing.  We’re on from 1-3PM Central. We’ll be talking the Iowa Caucus results, the outlook in the Granite state, and much more.  Also, we’ll have Mound city councilman Dave Osmek to talk about the real cost of light rail, and – in the 2PM hour – new MNGOP state chairman Pat Shortridge to talk about – well, what do you think, huh?
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream) (not today – Ed’s got the camera).
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

Big NARN Tomorrow

Friday, January 6th, 2012

It’s going to be a big show on the Northern Alliance Radio Network tomorrow.

For starters, we’ll have Mound city councilman Dave Osmek on, to talk about the story about light rail that you’re juuuust not hearing from the rah-rah mainstream media.

Then, we’ll be talking with newly-elected MNGOP chair Pat Shortridge about the way forward from the party’s mess, and – more importantly – how the MNGOP is going to capitalize on last year’s epic gains.

And there might be more.  Stay tuned!

Fixing The Past, Winning The Future

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Talk about timely.

On the Northern Alliance on Saturday, I’ll be interviewing the new chairman of the Republican Party of Minnesota, Pat Shortridge.

We will, naturally, be taking calls.  If you have questions of the new chair, by all means tune in and call in.

Talk Is Cheap!

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism!

  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – is on from 1-3 on Sunday.
  • Ed and I are on from 1-3PM Central. We’ll be talking Hawkeye Cauci, the MNGOP State Central meeting, and I think James Lileks might be stopping in today as well.
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream).
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

As Talk Show Hosts Watched Their Flocks By Night

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

The Northern Alliance Radio Network is taking the Christmas holiday off.  We’ll be running “best-of” broadcasts for both days today.  Enjoy the holiday!

On behalf of King, Ed, Bradley, Tommy and the folks at Salem Radio, Merry Christmas, all the best for any other holidays you observe, and thanks for making this past year the best in NARN history so far, which is, indeed, the best Christmas present of all!

(Short of all that “our savior is born”, “peace on earth and good will to men”, and time with our families stuff, which I’ll be honest and tell you is is way more important, but you know what I mean, right?)

A Letter

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

President Hanson,

My name is Mitchell Berg. I’m a modestly-successful blogger (www.shotinthedark.info), covering Minnesota politics and current events from a broadly conservative viewpoint; .think Locke, Buckley and P. J. O’Rourke, rather than Larry the Cable Guy. As a parent of two college-age kids, I write a lot about education; I have been an occasional critic of Hamline’s policies.

I am also the host of a radio program – “The Northern Alliance Radio Network”, along with national blogger Ed Morrissey. We’re heard in the Twin Cities every Saturday on WWTC-AM 1280, and nationally via the internet.

I’m also a neighbor, living a block off the Hamline campus.

I’d like to request the honor of an interview with you, via any medium convenient to you, regarding both the Tom Emmer fiasco, as well as about Hamline’s commitment to “diversity” about which you wrote in the Star/Tribune this week. This interview could be…

  • on the radio show, on any Saturday you’d be available
  • in person, at Hamline, at any time convenient to you
  • failing either of those, via a list of emailed questions.

I (and Ed, if you choose to come on the show) are acerbic but civil and respectful interviwers; I submit for your reference our interviews with R.T. Rybak, Dane Smith, David Brauer, Rochelle Olson and Erik Black as evidence that we seek a useful dialogue rather than to throw plates at our opposition.

So it would be great pleasure to have the chance to have a dialogue about academic diversity, in general and at Hamline University.

I will eagerly await your response.

Respectfully,

Mitch Berg

I Heard It On The NARN

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

Ed writing on Lightsquared.

Kool Aid Report is back.

Talk And Roll Never Forgets

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism!

  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – is on from 1-3 on Sunday.
  • Ed and I are on from 1-3PM Central. We’ll be talking about the week in review – a little bit of political this, a little bit of electoral that.  You can probably expect a look at the week’s raft of GOP debates, as well as a look at this week’s churn in the MNGOP and the media and left’s sudden change of heart on matters of the heart and state.
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream).
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

I Heard It On The NARN

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Ed Morrissey, for those that don’t know, is found at Hot Air.

Don’t Talk To Strangers

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism!

  • Ed is off on assignment; I’m soloing today, from 1-3PM Central. Ed will be calling in at some point to talk about the latest round of Iowa debates.  Then we’ll talk with Barb Malzacher and Randy Gilbert about the future of the Minnesota GOP.
  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – will be up tomorrow, from 1-3PM!
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream).  (Ed’s got the camera…)
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

I Heard It On The NARN

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Jack Tomczak and Ben Kruse host The Late Debate on FM95.9, which is in the Anoka-Ramsey area.  If you’re outside the Patriot’s listening area and don’t have a computer handy, and are in the northwest ‘burbs between 10-midnight Sunday through Thursday, I grant you special dispensation to listen in.

We’re All Talk

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism!

  • Ed is off on assignment; I’m soloing today, from 1-3PM Central. Today’s guests – in the first hour, Jack Tomczak and Ben Kruse of “The Late Debate” talk show (heard on 95.9FM in the far northwestern ‘burbs) and I will talk party biz, redistricting, and politics in general.  Then, James Lileks of The Bleat the Strib will talk about – well, the same stuff we always talk about.
  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – will be up tomorrow, from 1-3PM!
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream).  (Ed’s got the camera…)
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

The Talk Remembers When

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism!

  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – moves to 1-3PM starting tomorrow!
  • Ed and I are on from 1-3PM Central. We’ll be talking about the week in review – a little bit of political this, a little bit of electoral that.  Tune in!
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream).
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

This Is Radio NARN

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism!

  • Ed is off on assignment; I’m soloing today, from 1-3PM Central. I’ll be talking about the week in review,  We’ll look back at the elections, and ahead to next year’s big show. .
  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – will be up tomorrow, from 6-7PM!
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream).
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

If It’s Saturday, It Must Be NARN Day

Saturday, November 12th, 2011

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism!

  • Ed is off on assignment; I’m soloing today, from 1-3PM Central. I’ll be talking about the week in review,  We’ll look back at the elections, and ahead to next year’s big show. .
  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – will be up tomorrow, from 6-7PM!
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream).
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

I Heard It On The NARN

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

Ben Schwanke is running to replace Larry Pogemiller.  He needs to raise $1,000 by Monday to get the state matching funding for his campaign.  If you can pony up, please do.

Hans Anderson is running for Mayor of Bloomington.  If you live there, you need to get out and vote for him.

Here’s Gary Gross’s piece on the redistricting ruling.

I Heard It On The NARN

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Saint Paul School Board candidates:

They could use your help, even if you’re not in Saint Paul.

Also talking with Hans Anderson, candidate for Mayor in Bloomington MN.

Just Searching For A World With Some Soul

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism!

  • Ed and I are on from 1-3PM Central. We’ll be talking about the week in review, and about a shooting in Minneapolis with an unusual result.  We’ve also got the GOP candidates for the St. Paul School board and the Bloomington (MN) mayor’s office, as wel ramp up for Tuesday’s elections.
  • Brad Carlson’s show – “The Closer” – will be up tomorrow, from 6-7PM!
  • The King Banaian Show! – King is on AM1570, Business Radio for the Twin Cities!  Join him from 9-11!

(All times Central)

So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. You have so many options:

  • AM1280 in the Metro
  • streaming at AM1280’s Website,
  • On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
  • UStream video and chat (at HotAir.com or at UStream).
  • Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488!
  • Podcasts are now available on the AM1280 page!  (Ed and I are #2 – Brad is #3).
  • And make sure you fan us on our new Facebook page!

Join us!

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