Author: Emily Welker

Thinking Green: Mold

If you're totally green when it comes to preventing mold, here's a handy primer.

With the precipitation headed our way and the warm-up that follows fast on its heels, there’s a catch: these are the perfect conditions for mold to start forming around your home. Find out why mold is the one part of going green you don’t want any part of. Here’s Danny Lipford in today’s Thinking Green. Categories: Morning – Features

Ask Danny: Insulation

Insulate yourself against making a poor choice.

Hardware stores are still open during the Coronavirus crisis, and a lot of them are now offering pickup options at the door. If you’re ordering online for pickup and you’re struggling with what kind of insulation to order, Danny Lipford’s got you covered in this week’s Ask Danny.

Price-Gouging in Minnesota: Make A Report

The state is cracking down on eighty-dollar toilet paper. Here's how you can report.

Minnesota’s Attorney General wants to hear from you this morning about price gouging on toilet paper and other goods sold at inflated prices during the coronavirus crisis. MN AG Keith Ellison tweeted out Tuesday out he’s getting reports of ninety-dollar toilet paper. He says his office responded to 150 complaints of price gouging last week and as many since then….

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Staring at a pile of recycling in your garage? Here's why it's all worth it in the end.

With all this time to hang around the house you may be tackling some chores that you’ve been putting off. Find out how your recycled milk jugs can make for a spiffy new fence in today’s Thinking Green. Categories: Morning – Features

Ask Danny: Selecting a Gutter System

The rain's headed our way.

We’re still in the middle of the melt in our region, and we had a touch of snow over the weekend. Then soon, the rain starts. If you’re looking for some good ideas on getting your hands on gutters, look no further. Home improvement Danny Lipford lets us know what to look for in this morning’s Ask Danny. Categories: Morning…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Time to Try Fostering

Fight loneliness from social distancing with the one kind of new friend it's okay to snuggle up with.

Here on the Morning Show, we want to reflect best practices when it comes to safety from COVID-19. So we’re following social distancing instructions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, staying six or more feet apart in-studio, and no longer bringing guests as a general rule. We may invite guests on, on a case-by-case basis, for visits from…

Thinking Green: Low-Flow Showers

You'll be a mean, green, coronavirus-fighting machine.

We’ve all got washing on our minds these days, and a good hot showe r is a great way to cut down the spread of germs. Danny Lipford lets us know how to keep your shower green and clean in today’s Thinking Green. Categories: Morning – Features

Ask Danny: Heat Loss from Windows

Because we're all spending a lot more time at home these days.

When there’s a cancellation every minute, when the schools are closed and almost everything’s been called off for coronavirus, chances are you’re looking to get started on the projects at home you’ve been putting off. Why not tackle the window situation around your home just in time for spring sunshine to return in a few days? Home improvement expert Danny…

LIVE: How It Could Hit Us

Why local infectious disease experts think the scariest new numbers might not stand up, even with all the seniors we have.

A Sanford and NDSU infectious disease doctor is skeptical of new numbers estimating forty to seventy percent of Americans could be infected with coronavirus over the next year to year and a half. Dr. Paul Carson says the UC San Francisco estimates, which appear to be based on Italy’s experiences, are an overestimation. Carson says American researchers gathered data from…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Callisto

Callisto's a cuddler who wants to be your one true love.

Callisto is a girl’s name that means “most beautiful,” and whomever named this dog was sure on to something. With her fetching ear spots, a charming patch over one eye just like Petey the Pup from the Little Rascals, and sweet smile, she’s one of the prettiest American bulldog crosses you’ll ever come across. She came to Homeward Animal Shelter…