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.
January 2, 1992 -
January 3, 1992 - Minnesota labor activist Harry DeBoer is remembered by former union radical. De Boer was instrumental in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 and a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party.
January 3, 1992 - Writer and critic Erin Hart reviews The Nightingale, a Tom Poole 1991 production being stage d at Theatre de la Jeune Lune. The play is a mashup of fairy tales based on Hans Christian Andersen’s work.
January 3, 1992 - Joe Follansbee provides his impressions of Jeffry Friedman’s Debt, Development, and Democracy, which analyzes the different paths Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela took to similar external financial conditions.
January 3, 1992 -
January 4, 1992 - Local writer Lawrence Sutin shares thoughts on friends who have babies and their focus shifts from their friends to their children.
January 4, 1992 - An interview with Karal Ann Marling, local author and professor at University of Minnesota, about her visit to Japan. Marling details numerous cultural items she learned about, including that Minnesota is known for “eggs” in the East Asian country.
January 6, 1992 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder interviews Sarah Tulloch, editor of The Oxford Dictionary of New Words. Tulloch describes examples of “new” words and terms in contemporary culture.
January 6, 1992 -
January 6, 1992 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten talks with Gary Doty, newly-elected mayor of Duluth, on what he sees as important going into 1992. Topics of business, tourism, and city infrastructure are at the forefront.