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 22, 1991 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles local Hmong pop-rock group Asian Invasion. Roberts interviews members of the band, who describe their varied influences and cultural subject matter in songs.
June 22, 1991 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews Phil Willkie, co-editor of The Gay Nineties: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Fiction. Willkie comments on the themes of the writings collected in book.
June 25, 1991 -
June 25, 1991 -
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.
June 27, 1991 -
June 27, 1991 -
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.