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 7, 1996 - MPR’s John Rabe interviews novelist David Foster Wallace about his book Infinite Jest. Wallace shares his thoughts on media consumption and drug industry.
March 8, 1996 - MPR’s John Rabe interviews Elizabeth Himelstein, dialect coach for the Coen brothers’ film “Fargo,” who discusses the importance of accent in expressing regionalism through the sound of language. Himelstein breaks down the dialect developed for film.
March 8, 1996 - Legal services for the poor are facing 30% cuts in Congress this year. And as a result wealthy, private law firms are being asked to donate more of their services to people who can't afford an attorney. Overall, Minnesota firms have a good reputation in this regard. And some have been downright innovative. Mary Stucky reports on why some law firms are working harder to help the poor.
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March 12, 1996 - A group of south-Minneapolis legislators say their colleagues are too eager to adopt the conclusions of the Dual-Track Airport Study, which recommends against building a new Twin Cities international airport in Dakota County. The group says adopting the recommendations now would cheat the public of the chance to participate in the airport decision.
March 12, 1996 - State Senator Skip Finn's attorney told jurors today Finn never stole money from a tribal insurance fund and...he never conspired to defraud the Leech Lake Band of the Ojibwe or the federal government. Attorney Doug Kelley says Finn was entitled to even more money than he was paid. Finn and two other tribal officials are on trial in federal court on charges they embezzled over one million dollars from a self-insurance fund Finn controlled as tribal attorney.