KASM-AM (Albany, MN)

11/3/25 – State Representative Lisa Demuth announced her campaign for Governor on Sunday, November 2nd. Rep. Demuth joined KASM Radio to discuss her decision and plan for Minnesota: Audio Player 1550844250 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 e77ecc037de377f3839bb877ec00690f352cf237 1 Recaptcha requires verification.

KASM Farm Department interviews from the week of May 5th – May 9th: 1. Hannah Bernhardt – Minnesota Farmers Union “For Farmers Sake” trip to D.C. Audio Player 2. State Representative Paul Anderson – weekly legislative update Audio Player 3. State Representative Lisa Demuth – weekly legislative update Audio Player 1755853267 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 fcc95ece241d4e7465f8a850ba14dfac95654f84 1 Recaptcha requires verification.

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State Representative Paul Anderson provided a wrap-up of the 2023 session on KASM Radio Thursday morning. Anderson says Minnesotans will be taxed more and many important areas did not receive the funding he felt they should have received. Anderson says the overall budget was increased by approximately 40% while dealing with a record $17 billion surplus: Audio Player facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php) 0158373814f38676fe1f53556b9f2366e455ed72 1

State Representative Isaac Schultz of Morrison County visited with KASM Radio on Wednesday morning with an update from St. Paul. This session has been dominated by the DFL party as they have a majority in the House and Senate. Schultz says he is concerned on the direction of the state budget and what this will mean for local schools, nursing homes and residents of his district.

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State Representative and House Minority Leader Lisa Demuth joined KASM on Friday for an update from St. Paul with just under 3 weeks remaining in the legislative session. Demuth shared her disapproval regarding how the $17 billion dollar surplus has been handled and how some Republicans are not included in the conference committee process: https://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/626/2023/05/05130313/demuth-5-5.mp3

Minnesota Milk Executive Director Lucas Sjostrom visited with KASM Radio on Tuesday morning regarding the DAIRI program legislation that is currently being considered in St. Paul. Sjostrom said the goal is to reach $10 million to fund the program. That amount currently stands at $5.5 million in the Senate version and less in the House version. With a record surplus of $17.5 billion dollars, the hope is the Minnesota dairy industry can capture additional dollars down the stretch.

Senator Jeff Howe joined KASM this week for an update on the 2023 legislative session in St. Paul. Last week was very busy and this week conference committee’s will continue to meet to hammer out the tax bill along with other legislation with roughly three weeks remaining in the session. Howe shares his insights on the latest activity: https://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/626/2023/05/02085040/Howe-5-1-23ff.mp3