Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
December 30, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, featuring Voices of Minnesota with Nathaniel Khaliq, the president of St. Paul's NAACP. He's a longtime community activist and anti-drug crusader.
January 1, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger visits Mille Lacs, and reports on the perplexing nature of ice fishing.
January 2, 1997 - Midday discusses the year in sports with Minnesota Public Radio sports analyst Howard Sinker. Sinker and MPR’s Gary Eichten review the events of the past year, and look ahead to the rest of the year. Topics include the battle over stadium public financing for Minnesota Twins and/or Minnesota Vikings.
January 6, 1997 - Midday guests Peter Hart and Bill McInturff, national polling experts, answer questions about polling and talk about their new poll of Minnesota business leaders' opinions on dozens of issues, covering everything from Governor Carlson and taxes, to a stadium for the Twins and the quality of education.
January 6, 1997 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, a Voices of Minnesota with the Director of St. Paul's Ordway Musical Theatre, Kevin McCollum. The current production is "Rent". Fiction writer Rick Moody who has written "The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven," a collection of short stories about strange and perverted people. The title story is set in the East Village of New York and populated by on-the-edge young people. His previous books are "The Ice Storm" and "Garden State."
January 7, 1997 - On the opening day of the Minnesota Legislature, a Midday discussion with key legislators on the major issues coming up this session: taxes, welfare reform, education, crime, and Twins stadium. Program also includes an interview with Governor Arne Carlson about his hopes for the 1997-98 and a short profile on two new legislators.
January 7, 1997 - Minnesota's political attention is turning to taxes, welfare reform, stadium funding and education. Those are among the serious policy issues Minnesota legislators will be debating over the next several months. Frequently lost among the bills, vetoes and deals are the personal stories of the legislators themselves, who re-arrange their lives each session to do the peoples' work. Minnesota Public Radio's Jon Gordon spoke with a brand new lawmaker and a six-year St Paul veteran about the beginning of a new session. Bob Westfall, a new Republican state representative from Rothsay in western Minnesota, has no grand vision for his first term.
January 7, 1997 - While House members in WASHINGTON face the task of electing their SPEAKER amid an ethics controversy surrounding Newt Gingrich....state Representatives in St.Paul are expected to elect speaker-designate Phil Carruthers as their first order of business when they convene at Noon. But as Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports...the shift of power in the state house isn't without its OWN set of controversies either: Irv Anderson, who ruled the House for three years, was deposed as Speaker when a deeply divided DFL state House majority voted in early November to replace him with speaker-designate Phil Carruthers. It was a narrow vote of 37-to-33 that exposed wounds inflicted on Anderson by DFL-ers and Republicans alike who've criticized his leadership style by calling it "good ol
January 7, 1997 - Political intrigue gave way to business-as-usual when the Minnesota House elected Phil Carruthers as its new Speaker. The legislature officially convened the 1997 session today.(tuesday) Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports from the capitol. The question leading up to the opening of the session was, just how far would supporters of Irv Anderson GO to keep their leader? Republican minority leader Steve Sviggum said HE was involved in talks with Anderson about a sharing of power in the HOUSE in exchange for some Republican votes...but as the start of the session approached...Sviggum, and others, predicted Anderson's days as Speaker were indeed OVER and Carruthers would enjoy an easy win.
January 7, 1997 - Grammy nominations came out today, but a record producer -- not a singer or band -- got the most nominations. Kenneth Baby Face Edmonds, who produced the soundtrack for "Waiting to Exhale", got an even dozen. Music critic Jim DeRogatis is not a fan of the Grammies, and he was not surprised by the list unveiled today. No big Minnesota names are nominated for pop music Grammys this year -- no Bob Dylan, Prince, or Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. But Garrison Keillor is nominated in the spoken word or nonmusical album, for "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn;" and former "Saturday Night Live" funnyman Al Franken, a Twin Cities native, is up for a Grammy.