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.
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March 24, 1993 - American writer Natalie Goldberg shares another reading from her book, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America. This reading excerpt reflects on a childhood French teacher. Goldberg has deep roots in Minnesota, having studied for 12 years with Katagiri Roshi at the Minnesota Zen Center.
March 25, 1993 - MPR’s Bruce MacDonald interviews Forrest Peterson, editor of the West Central Tribune in Willmar, about on phone scandal involving Alan Welle, Majority Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Peterson details reactions of constituents in the area.
March 26, 1993 - On this segment of Voices from the Heartland, Hibbing native and second-generation Korean American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee reads from her new book, Finding My Voice.
March 26, 1993 - Martin Brennan had a map of Laos and Thailand behind him and an interpreter by his side as he sought to convince a Hmong audience at a Saint Paul church that relatives still in Thailand could return to Laos safely. Brennan is coordinator of Refugee and Migration Affairs for the United States Embassy in Thailand. Last year the Thai government closed Ban Vinai, the largest Hmong refugee camp and will close another by the end of the year. Brennan came to the Twin Cities to ease fears in the Hmong community that refugees who go back to Laos will be persecuted or even killed upon their return.
March 29, 1993 - Penny Rosenwasser, author of Visionary Voices Women on Power Conversations With Shamans, Activists, Teachers, Artists & Healers, describes contents and purpose of her book.
March 29, 1993 - Local theater critic Erin Hart reviews two plays…Lonely Planet by Steve Dietz at the Cricket Theater; and Detective Fiction by Patrick Coyle at the Theater Garage.
March 29, 1993 - CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere)
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