Bemidji Now News Bites

Larissa Explains it All: Where the Rubber Meets the Road 🚜 Rail Corridor! 🚜 Jail Project! 🚜 Code of Conduct! 🚜 Larissa Learns All About Fire! 🚜 Cone Alert!

Larissa Explains it All: Jails and Taxes and Bears, Oh My! 🐻 Beltrami County votes on new jail site 🐻 Bemidji City Council talks 2024 budget 🐻 Bear Encounter! 🐻 The Case of the Ruby Red Slippers 🐻 Riding the School Bus 🐻 Blotter Report!

Larissa Explains it All: The Smoke of Saskatchewan Topics: 🔥Canada's on Fire 🔥No connection without annexation 🔥 Quest for City Manager 🔥 Defining Art 🔥 What's next on "People Who Go to Work Earlier Than I Do"

Larissa Explains it All, The Return! Topics: 🎈Where in the World was Larissa Donovan? 🎈Back to Reality (5:35) 🎈MMIW (7:52) 🎈Trek North's K-12 Liasion (11:43) 🎈Recreational Marijuana (13:35) 🎈Cone Season 🎈Blotter!

Week 9 of the Larissa Explains it All Podcast! Topics: What's up, City Hall? The Bird is the Word Women's History Month wrap up! Egg-centric Blotter Correspondent visit

The meetings and motions continue! Topics covered include recaps of Bemidji City Council, Bemidji School Board and Beltrami County Board meetings, clips from interviews and some of those meetings, some reflections from my trip to the Sugar Bush and our official blotter correspondent!

We're back for Week 7 of explaining things! Topics: Northern Township proposal work session, extension of city services without further annexation Ridealong with a Beltrami County Sheriff's Deputy! The Charter Commission recommendation for a council code of conduct Beltrami County Jail wrongful death lawsuit Highlights from Chatabout last week, with Sheriff Jason Riggs and Mayor Prince. Blotter Correspondent Randi Su Tanem

In this episode, we'll cover the "myriad of mayoral motions" at Monday's Bemidji City Council meeting, the Township grievances with Beltrami County's new road maintenance contract, a recap of the Red Lake State of the Band Address with a brief bonus history talk on why a portion of Upper Red Lake is currently excluded from the boundaries of the Red Lake Nation. Plus, a fun new segment with our Official Blotter Correspondent RandiSu Tanem!

Larissa's moving the release day officially to Mondays, recapping all that happened last week, starting with the Bemidji School Board meeting Monday, Feb. 27, swatting calls that targeted schools in the state including Bemidji, threats at Bemidji State University, the Ward 1 special election, and highlights from some interesting interviews.

Larissa is a couple days late on this episode, which will recap the State of the City Address and interesting updates from the Beltrami County Board meeting, as well as more fun items like blotter trends, and the quote of the week!