Author: Emily Welker

Pet Connection: Meet Gidget

A miniature pomeranian with major soul.

If you were to encounter Gidget the way her rescuers did, you might not believe your eyes at first: a tiny, geriatric  Pomeranian, missing most of her teeth, suffering from an enlarged heart, tottering down the streets of a southern Valley city all by herself in the world. That’s if you didn’t accidentally step on her first. Because at between…

App of the Week: Worldcard

It's a big beautiful world full of interesting people out there. Here's help keeping track of them all.

Keeping track of all your business contacts can seem like a full-time job. Keeping track of their business cards shouldn’t be. There are a lot of apps out there to help you do it, true — but how do you know whether they’re efficient, or just another potentially time-consuming task on your to-do list? Let Francie Black help you streamline…

Money Talks: Retirement Planning In This Market

With stocks at an all-time high, how do you take advantage of it in time to retire?

The stock market these days is a little like one of those bouncy clown toys: no matter how many knocks the news headlines lob at it — hurricanes, wildfires, the continuing tensions with North Korea — the market just keeps on bobbing back up. So what does that mean for folks who are trying to plan for retirement right now?…

Thinking Green: Pro-Green Myths

Separating the fact from the fiction.

When it comes to going green, you don’t want your aspirations fueled by fairy tales. There are a lot of myths out there about green living and eco-friendly technology, and there are some real facts scattered in with them. Let Danny Lipford separate the good stuff from the green baloney in this week’s Thinking Green. Categories: Morning – Features

Ask Danny: Painting Plastic

Is your plastic flamingo looking a little peaked? How to keep it in the pink.

It’s time to take a moment and spruce up some of the items that make your yard look bright, colorful and inviting before the snow flies for the season. Paint can usually do the trick for exterior home projects. But what about the items in the yard that are made of plastic — like your precious pink flamingoes, for instance?…

Melinda’s Garden: Indoor Gardening

Gardening season doesn't have to end with the first hard frost.

With a frost advisory throughout much of the Red River Valley region greeting us as we wake up this morning, it’s hard not to sigh a little and think of the end of much of the gardening season for the year. But you don’t have to say goodbye to gardening until the start of spring. Let Melinda Myers show you…

Pet Connection: Meet Kooky

He's got a kooky personality and a lot to say.

Kooky is the latest little bundle of feathers and fun who’s looking for a forever home courtesy of the rescue workers at Center for Avian Adoption, Rescue and Education, or CAARE here in the Fargo-Moorhead area. He and his handler, Casey Myers, visited the KVRR Morning Show to talk — literally — live with Emily Welker in studio about the…

Tech Tip Today: iOS 11

Get a taste of what to expect with the new apple operating system.

Have you taken a bite out of the new Apple operating system, iOS 11 set to come out soon? Francie Black is giving us a taste of its features, including productivity and safety features, in this week’s Tech Tip Today. Categories: Morning – Features

App of the Week: Greenlight

Make allowances for this app on your phone, or your kid's.

Allowances are a rite of passage for both kids and parents. But with financial literacy being one of the few subjects school doesn’t necessarily cover, how do you know you’re giving your child a lesson in fiscal responsibility as well as cash for snacks and toys? Francie Black has a way, in this week’s App of the Week. Categories: Morning…

Money Talks: Disasters and the Market

Into every life a little rain must fall. So why hasn't the market, yet?

Hurricane Harvey. Then Irma. Then Maria. All the while, mounting tensions and the looming threat of possible nuclear engagement with North Korea, and then, the Vegas massacre. Headlines like those and the accompanying destruction have been hitting for more than a month now, and yet during that same time frame, the market’s been on a more or less steady climb….