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.
August 4, 1992 - MPR’s Chris Roberts visits University of St. Thomas, where Hmong youth are experiencing the sport of tennis. The hope is the sport will be an avenue for young Hmong boys and girls to be active. Whacking the ball is a ‘hit.’
August 4, 1992 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder interviews local sportscaster and historian Stew Thornley, who has written numerous books on baseball.
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August 5, 1992 - MPR’s Gary Eichten talks with local critic and author Karal Ann Marling about controversial art at the Minnesota State Fair. Marling share shares her thoughts about fair in general.
August 5, 1992 - Local writer and theater critic Erin Hart reviews Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man at The Loring. Ian McKellen portrays Shakespeare’s Richard.
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August 6, 1992 - KLSE Rochester’s Carol Gunderson interviews American broadcaster and journalist Tom Gjelten about the experience of sights from Sarajevo. The topic of hatred is at the center of conversation.
August 7, 1992 - MPR’s Catherine Winter reports on court decision over judicial election process. The decision allows Alan Page, former Minnesota Viking and Minnesota Assistant Attorney General, to be on ballot for the Supreme Court seat that Justice Lawrence R. Yetka currently holds.
August 7, 1992 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, an essay on Aspen Parkland by Minnesota naturalist writer Laurie Allmann. The essay was later collected in Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent, published by University of Minnesota Press in 1996.