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.
March 19, 1992 - MPR’s Beth Friend interviews John Olive about his play, Evelyn and the Polka King. The play features live polka music.
March 19, 1992 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder talks with local poet and author Susan Marie Swanson about the changes in cultural subject matter within children books, with trend towards a depiction of diversity.
March 19, 1992 - Local author and teacher Julie Landsman records a reading about her father and the resistance during WWII.
March 19, 1992 - Gay and Lesbian Community Action Council, Patti Abbott, John Chenoweth, Joel Larson, Jay Johnson
March 19, 1992 - MPR’s Chris Roberts reports on the uptick in reported bias crime against members of the gay community. Roberts interviews Patti Abbott, a crime/victim advocate for the Minnesota Gay and Lesbian Community Action Council (GLCAC), who details multiple reasons behind the dramatic percentage increase in reported incidents.
March 19, 1992 - Larry Buboltz, mayor of Detroit Lakes, shares the status of Swift turkey plant in the city. There are negotiations on selling the plant in an attempt to avoid closing it down.
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March 20, 1992 - An interview with Lance Belville about his play, Olle from Laughtersville, which illustrates the Swedish American comedian/musician in Minnesota Hjalmar Peterson. His stage name was Olle i Skratthult (Olle from Laughtersville).
March 20, 1992 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, Duluth writer Barton Sutter reads his essay, A City upon a Hill. Sutter looks at the precarious nature of a wintery city on a hill.
March 20, 1992 - Evelina Giobbe, WHISPER (Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt), PRIDE (From Prostitution to Independence, Dignity and Equality), Mitchell Rothman