All Things Considered is a comprehensive source for afternoon news and information provided by various MPR hosts in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington over the decades. The program contains interviews, reports, speeches and breaking coverage.
June 21, 2016 - All Things Considered’s Tom Crann talks with MPR Duluth reporter Dan Kraker about Great Lakes Compact approval of plan that allows the city of Waukesha, Wisconsin to pump 8.2 million gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan.
July 1, 2016 - All Things Considered host Tom Crann talks with MPR’s Euan Kerr, who is reporting from Hollywood, where Garrison Keillor will appear at the Hollywood Bowl for the last time as host of A Prairie Home Companion.
July 6, 2016 - MPR’s John Enger reports from Deer River, a small town in Itasca county, which was hit especially hard by a storm racing across northern Minnesota on July 5, 2016. The damaging rain and wind came just days before the town’s annual Wild Rice Festival.
July 7, 2016 - After a thunderstorm rolled through the Twin Cities that created severe flash floods, MPR’s Tom Crann asks meteorologist Paul Huttner about the moisture conditions and urban landscape environment that made for the ingredients for flash flooding.
July 14, 2016 - With Hennepin History Museum hosting an exhibition on the Quatrefoil Library, MPR’s Marianne Combs profiles the library and its history. Quatrefoil is one of just a few LGBT lending libraries in the nation.
August 2, 2016 - MPR’s Doualy Xaykaothao reports on renewed efforts of the Minnesota Hmong Chamber of Commerce to help support Hmong-owned businesses and grow new ones. The Minnesota Hmong Chamber of Commerce was founded nearly two decades ago, but since that time, it hasn't been very active in the Twin Cities. Some of its co-founders are looking to re-invigorate the group.
August 11, 2016 - MPR’s Tom Weber interviews Sean Christenson, Willmar's city engineer, about how the city is dealing with historic deluge on August 10, 2016…one he considers a 1,000-year rainfall event.
August 25, 2016 - All Things Considered’s Tom Crann talks with MPR reporter Nancy Yang about the history of Minnesota State Fair’s mascot, ‘Fairchild.’ The gopher character has been at the fair for 50 years. He even has a sidekick, Fairborne.
September 2, 2016 - MPR’s Tracy Mumford takes a look at the history of one of Minnesota State Fair’s staples…the corn dog, which has been the unofficial food-on-a-stick of the Minnesota State Fair since 1947. That's the year the Pronto Pup came on the scene. And, yes: A Pronto Pup is a corn dog, despite what you might have been told.
September 9, 2016 - MPR’s Tom Crann interviews 20-year-old Augsburg College student Donte Collins, who was given the Academy of American Poets' Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award for his poem "What the Dead Know by Heart." Segment includes Collins reading poem.