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 24, 1993 - Sally MacDonald, of Playwrights Center; and Ross Miller, a 14-year-old playwright, talk about local Young Playwrights Summer conference, sponsored by Playwrights Center and St. Thomas University.
June 24, 1993 - Educator and local journalist Ann Daly Goodwin praises the work of young writers from a celebration held at Unity School in Balsam, Lake Wisconsin. Goodwin highlights the story, Something Under the Bed is Drooling.
June 24, 1993 - Jerry Haaf, Deborah Hedlund, George Widseth, Joe Spano
June 24, 1993 - U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone comments on his potential vote choice on bill addressing federal budget. While he supports the tax piece, Wellstone shares his concern over what it does to Medicare.
June 25, 1993 - MPR’s Perry Finelli interviews Ann DeGroot, local LGBT acitivist, about Gay Pride Festival, appointment of a U.S. AIDS czar, gays in the military, and the term ‘family.’
June 25, 1993 - MPR’s Kate Smith reports on Hmong farming in Minnesota, where a more traditional approach returns to a land where modern agriculture now dominates.
June 25, 1993 - Voices from the Heartland segment presents local educator and author Judith Hougen reading her poem, Coming of Age.
June 25, 1993 - A Worldview interview with Mehrdad Izady, author of Kurds: A Concise Handbook, a book to identify and delineate the heritage of the Kurds.
June 25, 1993 - Resident commentator Susan Berkson ponders Family Fest 93’ and Barney dinosaur with the scheduled two feet of water from Mississippi River flooding the event site along Harriet Island in St. Paul.
June 25, 1993 - U.S. Congressman Martin Sabo comments on House Budget Committee efforts and possible result of completing a joint budget bill in D.C. legislation.