Rochester's Good Morning

For the last two years or so there's been a push by some for the city to offer municipal broadband to all residents, or at least provide the infrastructure. Rochester City Council President Randy Staver talked about the issue on his visit with Rich Peterson and Kim David on Rochester's Good Morning Tuesday on KROC AM...

We spent time talking about road projects this morning with Megan Moeller, the Communications Coordinator and Dillon Dombrovski, Project Construction Manager with the Rochester Public Works Department. There are a number of projects slated for the year and one of the aspects of road work these days in Rochester anyway, is the addition of bike lanes...

The County Adult Detention Center was among the topics talked about during the Sheriff's visit on Wednesday on KROC AM. He mentioned that retiring Olmsted County Administrator Richard Devlin would like to lay down a path to successfully deal with the prisoner population before he leaves his post next fall...

It's on now!  The Minnesota State Patrol will be looking for distracted drivers from now to April 23rd. During last year's crackdown the State Patrol wrote over 6,000 distracted driving tickets! Minnesota State Patrol Sargent Troy Christianson was on Rochester's Good Morning Monday with Rich Peterson and Kim David...

That was the word this morning from Ellen Pesek, the Forestry Coordinator for the city of Rochester. On KROC AM this morning, she said the emerald ash borer has been spreading much faster than they originally thought, and if you want to keep your ash tree, plan on having it treated or cut it down because otherwise it will die...

Rochester Public School Superintendent Michael Munoz was on KROC AM radio this Thursday morning with Rich Peterson and Kim David to talk about everything school-related. In regards to funding from the State Capitol, Munoz said the district has already completed its budget for the next school year based on an expected 2 percent increase...

The Rochester Civic Theatre's release came out Tuesday that Executive Director Gregory Stavrou was resigning from his position. I knew, or at least was fairly certain this was going to happpen based on conversations we'd had off the record and off the air during his weekly visits on KROC AM...

Rochester City Council President Randy Staver came clean with an admission during his appearance on Rochester's Good Morning Tuesday. He said it's rare when you go home from a meeting questioning your vote over an issue, but it happened after Monday night's meeting when contemplating the 18th Avenue road project, which he voted for but now has second thoughts...

The Rochester City Council appears to be ready to go ahead with the Transit report presented to them at the Committee of the Whole meeting Monday afternoon. Based on that, plus feedback they've been hearing from the community, a plan would be put in place that will expand routes on Saturday and provide Sunday service as well, according to City Council President Randy Staver, who revealed some deta

The Minnesota Historical Society was the recipient of a nice addition recently, a 200-year-old book that dates to 1826-1827, providing some interesting insight into the early history of Minnesota.

It's been an interesting week at the Rochester Art Center.  The results of an internal audit became public in a Minnesota Public Radio news story on Tuesday. It revealed a loss of just over 279-thousand dollars for fiscal year 2015.  The words "troubled", "dire straits" and "dismal" were used in the stories...

Interesting call from a listener this morning while chatting with the Sports Expert, George Rownd at 6:45. We always give listeners a chance to stump the sports expert and if they do, they win a Subway sandwich certificate.

Olmsted County will be raising its sales tax by a quarter-cent this summer. The money raised will be 100% dedicated to transportation projects, of which there are many. Olmsted County Commissioner Ken Brown explained the need for the revenue Tuesday morning on Rochester's Good Morning with Rich Peterson and Kim David...

As many of you have heard, the Destination Medical Center board announced at its meeting last week that it had met and surpassed the 200-million dollar private investment threshold. It's a number set by the state legislature back when the DMC plan was given the go ahead a couple years ago...