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.
September 19, 1974 - Judge Lord says Reserve Mining should cease operations at Peter Mitchell pit and begin taking ore from a different mine not containing taconite.
September 19, 1974 - As The Council of American Witches hold their fourth convention in Minneapolis, MPR’s Sam Ford visits to get a better understanding of the participants. Chairman Carl Weschcke says witches are socially conscious people, wanting to save mankind from self-destruction.
September 19, 1974 - Attorney Rebecca Knittles discusses District Court Judge Miles Lord makes a ruling in an aMinnesotaesty case that the defendent has been given a sentence, there for he is exempt from serving alternative service.
September 19, 1974 - Judge Lord says Reserve Mining should cease operations at Peter Mitchell pit and begin taking ore from a different mine not containing taconite.
October 3, 1974 - Graham Watt, director of the Federal Office of Revenue Sharing, discusses possible, yet at the time unknown, cuts and/or reduction of expenditures to 1975 or 1976 federal budgets to alleviate concerns of inflation. Concerns from local and state governments regarding federal moneys and potential losses to revenue sharing are also discussed.
October 4, 1974 - Mulford Q. Sibley, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, speaks on the immense political, social, economic, religious, and physical toll of Vietnam war. The topic is not limited to South or North division, but all parties involved, including the United States.
October 5, 1974 - Alex Haley, author of Roots, speaks at Macalester College in St. Paul about his experience in a foreign crowd.
October 6, 1974 - Dr. Philip McNairy, the head bishop of the Minnesota Episcopal Diocese, discusses the role of the Episcopal church in the aftermath of the Wounded Knee incident. Dr. McNairy also discusses relations between Native Americans and non-native populations in both the rural and urban areas of the Dakotas and Minnesota.
October 7, 1974 -
October 7, 1974 -