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 20, 1988 - MPR’s Chris Tetlin reports on Minnesota’s desegregation law and school districts' efforts and to comply. Some citizens are looking beyond the school buildings, to the actual classes.
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September 27, 1988 - Morning Edition’s Loren Omoto interviews Dave Jarzyna, marketing director for the Minnesota Twins, about the team’s milestone of achieving the American League single season attendance record.
September 27, 1988 - Gleason Glover and Matthew Little create police brutality hotline. Sgt. David Niebur, responsible for controversial Minneapolis Police Decoy Unit, is appointed head of Internal Affairs Unit.
September 28, 1988 - MPR’s Dan Olson reports on Delta Lambda Phi, the first fraternity for gay, bisexual, and progressive men at the University of Minnesota. Olson interviews numerous students and officials about the creation of organization on campus.
September 29, 1988 - MPR’s Jim Bickal takes a look back at the 1988 Minnesota Twins’ Major League Baseball season. Despite coming in second place in the American League West and missing post season play, the team had an impressive 91-71 record. That is the best regular season record in 18 years.
September 29, 1988 - Don Fraser, Tony Bouza, Gleason Glover, Urban League, Minneapolis Police Decoy Unit
October 1, 1988 - Book reviewer Susan Williams provides commentary on "Tracks" by Louise Erdrich.
October 8, 1988 - Book reviewer Leonard Lang provides his impression of James Lileks' novel Falling Up the Stairs.