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.
July 15, 2014 - On this Appetites segment, Tom Crann interviews Minnesota author Beth Dooley about the various food offerings of Hmong growers at farmers markets in the Twin Cities.
July 30, 2014 - MPR’s Tim Nelson provides details on Mendota Heights police Officer Scott Patrick being shot and killed Wednesday in West St. Paul during what police termed a routine traffic stop. By nightfall, authorities had captured a suspect they sought in the killing.
August 1, 2014 - MPR’s Laura Yuen shares details on first-degree murder charges handed down by the Dakota County Attorney's Office against Brian Fitch, the suspect in killing of Mendota Heights Police Officer Scott Patrick.
August 14, 2014 - As part of the MPR News Young Reporter series, Mai Tong Yang reports on how vendors at Hmongtown Marketplace have been participating in Emergency and Community Health Outreach, a program to help them understand and follow state law. The nonprofit organization, also known as ECHO, works with refugee and immigrant communities in Minnesota to create a safe community environment.
August 22, 2014 - MPR’s Sasha Aslanian reports that a private hunting club in Little Falls, Minnesota, has agreed to pay for the wedding ceremony and reception of a same-sex couple it refused to accommodate.
September 9, 2014 - MPR’s Tim Nelson reports on the struggles at Dorothy Day Center, where homeless overflow the building and area outside of homeless shelter.
September 18, 2014 - MPR’s Tom Crann interviews Peggy Flanagan, executive director of Children's Defense Fund Minnesota, about recent U.S. census numbers that stated 14 percent of the state's children are living in poverty. Flanagan discusses the definition of poverty, the racial disparity in the numbers between groups, and potential solutions to child poverty.
September 25, 2014 - On this episode of MPR’s Minnesota Sound and Voices, Dan Olson profiles the wildlife management of bison in Blue Mounds State Park and raising them for meat on a nearby ranch.
November 4, 2014 - MPR’s Curtis Gilbert reports on Paul Molitor being introduced as the new Minnesota Twins manager. In his first news conference as a manager, Paul Molitor insisted he can pull the Minnesota Twins out of the team's four-season slump.
November 24, 2014 - MPR’s Curtis Gilbert reports on the cost and hassle of mattress disposal in Minneapolis, and how the city is looking for ways to best deal with recycling and costs.