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Matt was joined by Rick Smith, who hosts the 8-9 PM hour weeknights. Rick is at the DNC as they talk about how labor has retaken the Democratic Party, how Tim Walz was the perfect choice as a labor candidate and more.

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Matt McNeil was joined by Patti Vasquez, who hosts the 9-10 PM hour weeknights. Patti’s live at the DNC as she and Matt talk about Tim Walz’s speech last night, how his son Gus reacted and other DNC news, Sean O’Brien,

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Matt is joined by our national political expert Jeff Stein for his weekly visit.

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Cliff Schecter is the President of Libertas LLC, a public relations and political strategy firm. He is the author of the 2008 bestselling book The Real McCain, a syndicated columnist, and co-owner of We Act Radio, AM 1480 in Washington DC. He also sits on the Board on the Ohio Innocence Project. You can follow him on…

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Ryan Winkler is a former DFL member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

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Patti Vasquez is a Chicago comedian, writer, actor, talk show host, consultant, advocate, and policy advisor. After achieving a degree in history from the University of Illinois, she set out to share her hilarious observations about how people behave, and stories about her second-generation Irish dad and Mexican immigrant mom.

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Karla Bigham is a current Washington County Commissioner and former Minnesota state legislator.

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Matt is joined by our national political expert Jeff Stein for his weekly visit. Today they talk about: Trump’s campaign melting down; state-by-state polling; down ballot races and more!

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I’m Michael Brodkorb. I’m a husband and a father. I work in communications, media, and research. Overall, I’ve done some bad – I’ve done some good. If you follow my website for updates, you’ll learn about both.

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Patti Vasquez is a Chicago comedian, writer, actor, talk show host, consultant, advocate, and policy advisor. After achieving a degree in history from the University of Illinois, she set out to share her hilarious observations about how people behave, and stories about her second-generation Irish dad and Mexican immigrant mom.

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Dr. Joe Eastman is a disease modeling expert who frequently discusses COVID and other illnesses on the Matt McNeil Show.

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Matt is joined by Minnesota comedian Robert Baril as they riff on the latest political news including JD Vance’s awkward public appearances, trump’s mental decline and more. Catch Robert at Acme Comedy Club tonight through Saturday! Order tickets at: https://acmecomedy.seatengine.com/events

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For the first time in three weeks, Matt is joined by Jeff Stein! They have LOTS to cover, including the aftermath of Joe Biden ending his reelection campaign, Tim Walz being selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate, and JD Vance imploding.

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Patrick Coolican is Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Reformer and joins Brett every Tuesday at 4:15/

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Cliff Schecter is an author, pundit and public relations strategist whose firm Libertas, LLC handles media relations for political, corporate and non-profit clients.

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A. John “AJ” Peters is the DFL-endorsed candidate for Minnesota’s 7th congressional district.

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Tabitha Montgomery is the executive director of PPNA. The 33rd Annual Powderhorn Art Fair is taking place August 3 and 4 in Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis.

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Maxwell Alejandro Frost is an American politician and activist serving as the U.S. representative for Florida’s 10th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was previously the national organizing director for March for Our Lives.

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JP Der Boghossian and Jim Pounds filled in for Matt and had a chance to speak with our national political expert Jeff Stein. This was Jeff’s first visit since Joe Biden ended his Presidential campaign, and Jeff shared his theory on how the process for Biden to be replaced played out.

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The Rev. Harry Hartigan is a caregiver for the community in big and small ways. He checks in daily or weekly on at least eight older adults in his life. On a larger scale, he helps organize Let’s Do Lunch, monthly lunches for older members of the LGBTQ community to enjoy each other’s company and…

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J. Patrick Coolican is Editor-in-Chief of Minnesota Reformer. Previously, he was a Capitol reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune for five years.

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Cathy Renna joins the National LGBTQ Task Force as Communications Director but is no stranger to the organization. As a longtime supporter and contractor on projects over the years and a regular presence at Creating Change, she has been part of the Task Force’s extended family for decades.

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Michelle Witte serves as the Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of Minnesota, founded in 1919 to further empower voters and defend democracy after the passage of the 19th Amendment which expanded votes for women. Michelle has served as ED since 2017, and is deeply passionate about serving voters through our vibrant nonpartisan…

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Learn more about Char at Charvinity.com. Nikki is a parent-advocate who helped get Logan’s Law passed in Minnesota reforming the legal relationship between parents and their biological children.

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Randy West is a broadcast historian, author, and game show host including formerly of The Price Is Right. Find his book, TV Inside-Out – Flukes, Flakes, Feuds and Felonies, available at tvrandywest.com or where you get your books.

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JP and Jim are joined by the new artistic director of Children’s Theatre, Rick Dildine.

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Bruce Klopfleisch from Politics Matters joins JP and Jim to share his thoughts on the shakeup at the top of the Democratic ticket.

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Aaron J. Brown is a writer, radio producer and college instructor living and working by choice among the pine forests, tamarack swamps and hardscrabble mining towns near where he grew up on a family owned salvage yard in the Sax-Zim peat bog.

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A former staff director of the Senate Special Committee on Aging and 16-year veteran of Capitol Hill, Max Richtman is President and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM), one of the nation’s most influential senior advocacy and education membership organizations.

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Courtney Hagle is a deputy research director at Media Matters, where she has worked since October 2018. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston University, and she minored in history.

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Marge Hoffa is a native Minnesotan who has been heavily involved in the Minnesota DFL Party for the past two decades. She grew up near Duluth, where her father raised cattle and worked for the railroad. She attended high school in Northfield and Prior Lake, and then went to Augsburg College in Minneapolis.

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Matt is joined by Dr. Taiyon J. Coleman to talk about her new book, Traveling without Moving.

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Cliff joins Matt today to react to Trump’s lie-filled and meandering RNC speech, Republicans paying tribute to Trump, JD Vance’s anti-women stances and more.  

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Dr. Joe Eastman is an expert disease analyst and modeler who makes frequent appearances on the Matt McNeil Show to discuss COVID and other disease spreads. Today Matt and Dr. Joe talk about President Biden’s COVID diagnosis and how COVID effects older people. Plus we get updates on bird flu and more.

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Matt was joined by Bill Corbett, from RiffTrax and formerly from Mystery Science Theater 3000. They talk about how the new Deadpool movie might impact the superhero genre, Twister somehow getting a sequel, then some political topics and more! See RiffTrax live at State Theatre Minneapolis on July 27!

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Jeff Stein from KXEL/Waterloo joins Matt every Wednesday at 3:30.

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Sarah C. Johns is a writer and video producer. After studying in South Africa, Hungary, Israel, and Germany, she graduated from McGill University before attending film school in Sydney, Australia. She lives with her family in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Rob Levine is a Duluth native and former staff photographer at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. He now works as a freelance photographer, writer, editor and web developer.

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Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er) is Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and author of many books. His equity, education, and cultural work has put him on a path of service around the nation and the world. https://antontreuer.com https://antontreuer.com/resources

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Jeff Stein returns after a hiatus of a few weeks!. Matt and Jeff talk about the push by some Democrats to remove Joe Biden as their nominee, Project 2025, Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and more.

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Patrick Coolican is the Editor-in-Chief at the Minnesota Reformer and joins Brett every Tuesday at 4:15 to discuss the latest local and national stories.

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Dr. Joe Eastman is an expert disease analyst and modeler who makes frequent appearances on the Matt McNeil Show to discuss COVID and other disease spreads.

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Max Nesterak is the deputy editor at the Minnesota Reformer.

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Paul and Matt resume yesterday’s conversation. You can find more about Lifeline Ukraine at https://lifelineukraine.com/en.

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Cliff joins Matt to give his reaction to yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling.

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Paul is a businessman, writer, and political commentator. His passion for Ukraine stems from his involvement in the revolutions of 2004/5 and 2013/4, and his writings about Ukraine are often focused on helping the international community better understand the reasons for and background behind the ongoing war in the Donbas, as well as Ukraine in…

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Former State Sen. Ann Johnson Stewart is returning to politics to run in the special election for State Senate District 45 in November, with the primary in August.

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Catch Jeff Stein of KXEL/Waterloo with Matt every Wednesday at 3:30.

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Matt Robison is a writer, podcast host, and political analyst who focuses on trends in demographics, psychology, policy, and economics that are shaping American politics. His work has been featured extensively on Newsweek, AlterNet, and Raw Story. He is the co-host of the Beyond Politics podcast with former Congressman Paul Hodes, broadcast on WKXL in…

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Chris has had a lifelong passion for environmental conservation, stemming from his childhood experiences of playing in lakes and streams and fishing. This interest led to a legal career where he practiced environmental law. His background in law combined with his love for the environment has shaped his career dedicated to preserving natural resources and…

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Niko LeMieux is a Twin Cities based tech entrepreneur, and co-founder and COO of the payments startup Easy Labs.

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Patrick Coolican is editor in chief of the Minnesota Reformer, and joins Brett every Tuesday afternoon for analysis on the Reformer’s latest stories.

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Hopkins Pride is from 11-7 on Saturday, June 15 in downtown Hopkins. https://www.hopkinspride.org/

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Robert Baril will be at Comedy Corner Underground in Minneapolis this Friday and Saturday. https://comedycornerunderground.com/shows-list/-2024-7e3zy-snjct-2k7lz-5ffky-7zda7-grlb6-fmffr

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Cliff Schecter is the President of Libertas LLC, a public relations and political strategy firm. He is the author of the 2008 bestselling book The Real McCain, a syndicated columnist, and co-owner of We Act Radio, AM 1480 in Washington DC. He also sits on the Board on the Ohio Innocence Project. You can follow him on…

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We’re joined by our COVID-19 infectious disease expert Dr. Joe Eastman. They talk about some new COVID variants, avian flu and more.

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Max Nesterak is the deputy editor of the Reformer and reports on labor and housing. Previously, he was an associate producer for Minnesota Public Radio after a stint at NPR. He also co-founded the Behavioral Scientist and was a Fulbright Scholar to Berlin, Germany.

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Deena Winter has covered local and state government in four states over the past three decades, with stints at the Bismarck Tribune in North Dakota, as a correspondent for the Denver Post, city hall reporter in Lincoln, Nebraska, and regional editor for Southwest News in the western Minneapolis suburbs.

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  Anne Kim is a writer, lawyer, and public policy expert with a long career in Washington, DC–based think tanks working in and around Capitol Hill. She is also a contributing editor at Washington Monthly, where she was a senior writer. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Governing, TheAtlantic.com, the Wall Street Journal, Democracy, and numerous other publications.…

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It’s our weekly visit with national political expert Jeff Stein. They talk about Trump’s conviction last week, how Trump will be sentenced, and more.

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Patrick Coolican is editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Reformer. He joins Brett every Tuesday around 4:15 to discuss the Reformer’s latest stories.

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Patti Vasquez is a Chicago comedian, writer, actor, talk show host, consultant, advocate, and policy advisor. After achieving a degree in history from the University of Illinois, she set out to share her hilarious observations about how people behave, and stories about her second-generation Irish dad and Mexican immigrant mom. Patti has headlined in comedy…

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Aaron Rupar is an independent journalist covering US politics and media, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter. He was a pioneer of using SnapStream to post real-time video tweet threads of political events. Before going independent, Rupar covered the Trump administration for Vox. https://substack.com/@aaronrupar

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Jack is a nationally recognized and award winning criminal defense lawyer, awarded Among the Best Criminal Defense Lawyer of 2024, Minnesota Super Lawyer for 2023, Among the Best Lawyers of 2022, winner of the Minnesota Attorney of the Year Award for 2021 and founder of Jack Rice Defense. He was awarded the Professional Excellence Award…

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Cliff Schecter is the President of Libertas LLC, a public relations and political strategy firm. He is the author of the 2008 bestselling book The Real McCain, a syndicated columnist, and co-owner of We Act Radio, AM 1480 in Washington DC. He also sits on the Board on the Ohio Innocence Project. You can follow him on…

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It’s our weekly visit with national political expert Jeff Stein. They talk about jury deliberations in Trump’s trial, Samuel Alito flying Christian Nationalist flags at his home and more.

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Patrick Coolican is editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Reformer. He joins Brett every Tuesday around 4:15 to discuss the Reformer’s latest stories.

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Cliff Schecter is the President of Libertas LLC, a public relations and political strategy firm. He is the author of the 2008 bestselling book The Real McCain, a syndicated columnist, and co-owner of We Act Radio, AM 1480 in Washington DC. He also sits on the Board on the Ohio Innocence Project. You can follow him on…

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Dr. Joe Eastman joins to not talk infectious diseases, but to preview Timberwolves vs. Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals.

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It’s our weekly visit with national political expert Jeff Stein. They talk about questionable trial strategies from Trump’s attorneys, Trump “accidentally” posting Nazi imagery on his Truth Social account and more.

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Patrick Coolican is Editor-in-Chief of Minnesota Reformer. Previously, he was a Capitol reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune for five years, after a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan and time at the Las Vegas Sun, Seattle Times and a few other stops along the way. He lives in St. Paul with his wife…

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Michael Brodkorb is the author of “The Girls are Gone” and Republican political analyst who frequently provides analysis from the GOP side on the Matt McNeil Show.

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Anna Becker is the Executive Director, Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA).

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Dr. Joe Eastman regularly provides analysis of modeling for COIVD and other diseases on the Matt McNeil Show.

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Cliff Schecter is the President of Libertas LLC, a public relations and political strategy firm. He is the author of the 2008 bestselling book The Real McCain, a syndicated columnist, and co-owner of We Act Radio, AM 1480 in Washington DC. He also sits on the Board on the Ohio Innocence Project. You can follow him on…

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It’s our weekly visit with national political expert Jeff Stein. They talk about Trump’s support slipping among GOP voters in state primaries, speculating about what a Trump conviction would mean electorally and more.

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Bill Corbett is an alum of MST3K and a co-founder of RiffTrax.

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Peter C. Brosius joined the Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) on July 1, 1997. Under his artistic leadership, CTC has received the 2003 Regional Tony Award and advanced a production to Broadway. His accomplishments at CTC also include the development of Threshold, CTC’s new play development program and in 2005 he completed a $30 million campaign…

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Eric Bernstein is a policy analyst focused on state tax and budgetary policy. Since the summer of 2020, he has been policy director for We Make Minnesota — a coalition of labor and community groups organizing to raise state revenue for investment in health care, education, racial equity, sustainable environmental stewardship and other public priorities.

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Jeff Stein of KXEL/Waterloo joins Matt to discuss national politics every Wednesday at 3:30.

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Brett is joined for his weekly visit with Patrick Coolican, editor in chief of the Minnesota Reformer. Today they talk about the end of the MN legislative session, ethics hearing against Nicole Mitchell, a possible Uber/Lyft agreement in Minneapolis and the emerging monopoly that is United Health Group.

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It’s our weekly visit with national political expert Jeff Stein. They talk about Kristi Noem’s “checkered” history with animals, how Trump has now turned on RFK, did Mike Johnson cut a deal with Democrats and more.

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Patrick Coolican of the Minnesota Reformer joins Brett every Tuesday at 4:15 to discuss local politics.

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Michael Brodkorb is the author of The Girls are Gone as well as a regular contributor and analyst of Republican politics in Minnesota.

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Michael Brodkorb joins Matt to talk about the Vikings draft weekend!

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We’re joined by our COVID-19 infectious disease expert Dr. Joe Eastman.

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Reed Sigmund is the actor who plays Toad in Children’s Theatre Company’s production of A Year with Frog and Toad, playing now until June. https://childrenstheatre.org/whats-on/frog-toad/?utm_source=google-ads&utm_campaign=&utm_agid=&utm_term=&creative=&device=c&placement=&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_qexBhCoARIsAFgBleug2SZC3ojIaiWQvr3f1pT41_EfqnnLiOCQq9EvwjPYg7ZiueNEiTgaAh6NEALw_wcB

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Patti Vasquez is the host of Driving It Home on WCPT 820 Chicago, which can also be heard every weeknight at 9 on AM950.

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Maria Eggemeyer is the co-chair of Art in Bloom at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

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