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.
June 26, 1991 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten interviews Father Frankie Perkovich, the fourth person to be named into the Polka Hall of Fame. Father Perkovich is known for performing and promoting the Polka Mass.
June 26, 1991 - Robert L. Spaeth commentary about Patty Wetterling’s successful efforts on new legislation that requires convicted child molesters to register their addresses with law enforcement officials.
June 27, 1991 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten gets the inside scoop from Kevin Strong, a baseball player from Minneapolis who finds himself as a rookie for the Minnesota Twins minor league affiliate Elizabethton Twins.
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June 28, 1991 - MPR’s profiles Choua Lee, a Hmong woman running for the St. Paul School Board. Lee says her main concerns are minority students, in particular the grouping of these students into separate tracks in curriculum. She also sees the need for Hmong parents to be more active greater community decisions.
June 28, 1991 - MPR’s Susan Orandi reports on a Otter Tail County onstage program, which is staging plays at the historic River Inn, Fergus Falls. Lance Belleville, co-artistic director and playwright-in-residence at the theater details the plans for play and tying it to River Inn’s history.
June 28, 1991 - MPR’s Bob Potter interviews Lou Bellamy, artistic director of The Penumbra Theatre, about August Wilson. Bellamy discusses Penumbra’s production of Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
June 28, 1991 - MPR’s Leif Enger reports on the efforts being taken by the local community in staging a history play at the River Inn, located in Fergus Fall. The play, entitled Hooch, Hokum and Horsefeathers at the Hotsy Totsy Inn, presents the real-life drama (including murder) that took place at the inn back in late 1920-early 1930s.
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