Community Conversations
- 1st and 3rd Thursday 7-8pm
On the first and third Thursday of every month from 7-8 p.m. WTIP hosts a live interactive conversation on an issue of community importance. Guests are invited into the studio and listeners are invited to call in or email with questions, comments, and concerns. This participatory program is designed to give everyone a voice in the discussion of public affairs issues that shape our community. To participate in the conversation call 218-387-1070 or email us at wtip@boreal.org.
What's On:
WTIP airs Marriage Constitutional Amendment discussion
-The ballot question reads, Recognition of Marriage Solely Between One Man and One Woman.
Author Beryl Singleton Bissell
-Beryl Singleton Bissell left the monastery to marry a former priest.
“Building Assets for Kids” -- September's First Thursday on WTIP
-Do your kids talk to you? Bring their concerns home? Do you listen? If so, that’s good news. If not, why not?
"Nature of the North Shore" is August's First Thursday topic
Jay Andersen-It's high summer on the North Shore, and there's plenty going on in our woods and waters.
First Thursday looks at the beginnings of WTIP
-During our North Shore Sights and Sounds membership drive , we brought you lots of sounds you could not have heard before April of 1998.
Two from Grand Portage State Park are Third Thursday guests
-In 1985 Lloyd K. Johnson sold 178 acres of the land adjoining High and Middle Falls on the Pigeon River to the state and donated an additional 129 acres.
North House founder is May Third Thursday guest
-Years ago he moved to Cook County to build birch bark canoes. He stayed to build one of the most vibrant and important non-profit organizations in Minnesota – North House Folk School.
Revised ISD166 School Calendar is WTIP’s First Thursday topic
-The ISD166 school board has voted to try a different calendar for the 2012-13 school year.
WTIP’s Third Thursday features Cook County businessman Scott Harrison
-Join WTIP’s Jay Andersen for “Scott Harrison – the business of Cook County business” -- this month’s Third Thursday Community Conversation.
Courthouse security is topic for WTIP’s April First Thursday
-In response to the dramatic rise in local courthouse violence across the nation, Minnesota’s U.S. Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar have introduced the Local Courthouse Safety Act.
