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Jack Aakhus, Todd Haugen, Nicole Jaranson, Carol L. Johnson, Julie Laitala and Ann Long Voelkner are running for I.S.D. 31, Bemidji Area Schools, School Board.

Bird notes that WNBA players represent society's most marginalized groups. "We're Black, we're women, we're gay," she says. "And those are the groups that are held back in our society."

Microsoft and NBC, Disney and ABC, Westinghouse and CBS...the line between business and broadcast is growing blurry. Commentator Rueven Frank says broadcasters need to remember the rules in order to minimize the conflicts.

When Mitt Romney said he would cut PBS funding in the first presidential debate — and singled out Big Bird, whom he said he liked a lot — he perhaps inadvertently introduced the befeathered yellow children's icon smack into the center of political debate. President Obama approved a cable-only commercial dinging Romney for going after Sesame Street rather than Wall Street, but Romney appears to think he has a winning hand — castigating the president for focusing on a profitable educational puppet empire rather than big issues, like terrorism in the Arab world.

Retail sales declined 0.6% in November compared to October, the biggest decline in almost a year. For once, declining prices seem to be part of the story.

Birds change the shape of their wings far more than planes. The complexities of bird flight have posed a major design challenge for scientists trying to translate the way birds fly into robots.

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape. An 80 million-year-old bird fossil that sheds light on that mystery.

Previews of a new opera start tonight in Minneapolis. It's about the "Swedish nightingale," Jenny Lind, and her ahead-of-its-time relationship with P.T. Barnum. Barnum was the first to market personality when he brought Lind to tour the United States in 1850. He advertised and put her name on cakes, cigars and soap. And Lind was a savvy businesswoman in her own right. Their relationship fascinated noted contemporary composer Libby Larsen, who wrote the score and co-wrote the libretto for Barnum's Bird. Minnesota Public Radio's Marianne Combs reports.

Retail sales fell sharply in October. It was the fourth straight month in which overall retail activity declined. The October decline of 2.8 percent looks worse than it actually is, however. Take out gas prices, which are declining, and retail sales decline 1.5 percent.

Birds may be a familiar sight, but studying their migration patterns is difficult. They travel at night — thousands of feet in the air — defying scientists' attempts to track them. Bird expert Miyoko Chu discusses the many mysteries of bird migration.

Laura Erickson joins Heidi Holtan and John Latimer on the Tuesday Morning Show. They talk about her upcoming Zoom presentations on birding that she will…

New figures from the government show that the estimated count of babies born in 2018 has dropped to a historic low. "We know we must address the birthrate," a Japanese official says.

Ahead of Saturday's presidential election in Zimbabwe, Heidi Holland, author of Dinner with Mugabe, explains her theory of how Zimbabwe's leader of 28 years went from hero to deluded dictator.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with research professor Peter Gray about the connection between the decline of children's mental health and the decline of independent play.

Early Bird Fishing on the Thursday Morning Show

Early Bird Fishing on the Thursday Morning Show

NPR's Lynn Neary talks with Jacques Perrin, the director of the film Winged Migration, which tells the story of the seasonal migration of birds from a bird's eye view.

Scientists found remains of parrots in the Atacama desert, far from the birds' home in the Amazon. The discovery allowed scientists to reconstruct ancient trading routes used to transport the birds.

Early Bird Fishing Guide on the Thursday Morning Show

Early Bird Fishing Guide on the Thursday Morning Show