The Mike Harvey Show

National Kids and Pets Day has a neat little website with great pictures, good information for kids and parents about keeping your kids and pets safe from each other, and a chance to win a contest with your cutest kid and pet photo!

One of my favorite parts of spring is seeing all the birds come back to our yard and neighborhood. I guess it was appropriate that John James Audubon, America's leading bird illustrator, was born on this day in 1785.

I couldn't believe an Associated Press article this morning that talked about an App for Android phones called "Dog Wars". The article says, "Players can feed, water, train and fight their virtual animals against others.  The app is created by Kage Games - and the Web site where the app can be downloaded stresses it is only a video game. " As a dog lover, I was immediately appa

Today is the 13th birthday of the Red Hat Society, celebrating empowering, inspiring, and transforming the lives of women around the world! I had the chance to work with the Red Hat Ladies one Saturday afternoon in Great Falls and enjoyed their enthusiasm for their group and cause, and the closeness group members seem to enjoy...

Our sports trivia the last couple of mornings has discussed baseball stadiums, and the question has come up about the first stadium named for a business or corporation.  Well, you should know better to get me started on the history of sports stadiums, because I'll blow the whole day in research mode.

Since Christina Aguilera's incident at the Super Bowl, a number of singers have said in interviews that the one song they fear singing most is our National Anthem. Not because it's hard to perform (which it is), but because the fear of forgetting the words leads to memory paralysis, and you forget the words!

I mentioned in our Birthday Calendar show that Jane Withers, aka Josephine the Plumber, is celebrating her 85th birthday today! Along with Dick Wilson, the man who played Mr. Whipple, Jane is one of the most iconic commercial characters ever...

A (hopefully) thought-provoking story from the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) - A new report says teens don't see much of a problem with daily heavy drinking. The study being released today by The Partnership at Drugfree.org says teens don't see the big deal about downing five or more alcoholic drinks nearly every day...

Here's a report from the National Weather Service that goes a long way to illustrate why we're all sick of winter! SO FAR THIS WINTER...SOME IMPRESSIVE SNOW AMOUNTS HAVE FALLEN ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MONTANA. SOME AREAS HAVE SET NEW RECORDS FOR SNOWFALL FOR THE SEASON TO-DATE...

March 23 marks the sixth annual National Puppy Day! Enter the website for all things puppy, including a chance to adopt a puppy from Romania! (travel expenses included, believe it or not!) And it's a chance to thank our local veterinarians and animal shelters for all they do, and special thanks to all who participated in the recent fundraiser for the Prairie Oasis Animal Shelter in Shelby...

Today is OK day, and National Public Radio has a huge page dedicated to OK getting its day! You can read how writers refused to use it, how presidents decided it was okay (pardon the reference), and how one presidential candidate used OK to try to get elected...

Mark mentioned in Sports Trivia this morning that it was on this date in 1957 that North Carolina beat Kansas in a triple overtime NCAA men's basketball championship game. That got our research department into overdrive! Check out what we found out after the jump.