The Great Russian Nutcracker ~ Inside Energy: Silicosis ~ Harvest Public Media: Meatpacking

  Friday, September 4 – The Moscow Ballet is holding auditions today in Fargo for the “Great Russian Nutcracker” to be presented in November at the Chester Fritz Auditorium in Grand Forks. Here to tell us about the search for local talent and the upcoming performance is ballerina Olena Nalyvaiko. ~~~ Anna Boiko-Weyrauch reports for Insider Energy, investigating worker illness and death from exposure to silica sand during hydraulic fracturing. ~~~ Harvest Public Media’s Luke Runyon tours a meatpacking plant ~~~ News director Dave Thompson is here for this week’s discussion of the latest headlines. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “The End of the Tour.”