MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
May 9, 1997 - THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS IN GRAND FORKS NORTH DAKOTA AND EAST GRAND FORKS MINNESOTA ARE BUSY CLEANING CLEANING MUD AND SOGGY BELONGING FROM THEIR HOMES. HUGE PILES OF DEBRIS LINE MOST RESIDENTIAL STREETS. BUT IN NEIGHBORHOODS CLOSE TO THE RED RIVER THERE ARE NO TRASH PILES..AND LITTLE ACTIVITY. THESE MOST DEVASTATED AREAS WILL LIKELY BE DESTROYED TO MAKE ROOM FOR A NEW SYSTEM OF LEVEES. RESIDENTS OF EAST GRAND FORKS WILL GET THE BAD NEWS AT A TOWN MEETING TODAY (FRI- 4PM) MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIOS DAN GUNDERSON REPORTS..
May 9, 1997 - From "I've Always Meant to Tell You: Letters to Our Mothers - An Anthology of Contemporary Women Writers." Edited by Constance Warloe. Published by Pocket Books, 1997.
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May 12, 1997 - In today's Odd Jobs feature the man who puts the "international" in Rochester International Airport. Wes Niemitalo (NEE-muh-tell-oh) is the sole U.S. Customs Agent at the aiport - paid for by the city and the Mayo Clinic. He spends most of his day waiting to check in well-to-do overseas travelers coming in their private or government aircraft to the clinic for medical treatment. Minnesota Public Radio's Brent Wolfe talked to a man who gets an inside look at the lives of some rich and famous patients.
May 12, 1997 - St. Cloud has become the first outstate Minnesota community to form a citizens review board to investigate complaints against the police department. The St. Cloud chapter of the NAACP led the call for the board, but it's reserving judgment on whether the board can effectively police the police. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports.
May 12, 1997 - Residents of central Minnesota's Morrison County have been exhibiting a strange behavior lately. On any given day, you're likely to find one of them sleuthing through a cemetary. These "bone yard" afficianados are volunteers in a unique fact-finding project for the Morrison County Historical Society. As Minnesota Public Radio's Gretchen Lehmann reports the project, which at first seems tailor-made for the morbidly curious, is actually drawing a wide variety of participants.
May 12, 1997 - The tiny northwestern Minnesota town of Ada is in the midst of a medical crisis. The city lost its only clinic, hospital and nursing home to flooding last month. The facilities are doubly important because together they comprise the town's biggest employer. At first, Ada heard it would probably get enough federal funds to rebuild the hospital. But recent visits by federal inspectors have not been so optomistic. As Minnesota Public Radio's Lorna Benson reports, the hospital's future is now in doubt: Ada was one of the first communities to be hit hard by flood
May 12, 1997 - Police officials and now civilians across the country are looking for a man suspected of killing four men in a spree stretching from Minnesota to New Jersey. The last victim was a cemetery caretaker in New Jersey on Friday. Authorities there say suspect Andrew Cunanan (koo-NAN-in) could be anywhere by now. Cunanan (koo-NAN-in) has been on the run since April 29th, and there have been some rumblings about why the suspect hasn't been caught yet, and whether law enforcement or the media are to blame. Nick O'Hara is the superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Before that, he spent thirty years with the F-B-I, including seven years heading up its fugitive task force. We asked him whether the frustration in not catching Cunanan (koo-NAN-in) is justified: | D-CART ITEM: 1681
May 12, 1997 - Saint Cloud has become the first outstate Minnesota community to form a citizens review board to investigate complaints against the police department. The Saint Cloud chapter of the NAACP led the call for the board, but it's reserving judgment on whether the board can effectively police the police.
May 13, 1997 - Tobacco companies will have to disclose whether their cigarettes contain certain toxic substances under a legislative deal at the state capitol. Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste reports.