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.
April 12, 1996 -
April 13, 1996 - Award-winning poet C.K. Williams reads his poem titled “Love Beginnings.”
April 13, 1996 - For poetry month, MPR’s Great Cunningham talks with poet C.K. Williams about his experience with poetry.
April 13, 1996 -
April 13, 1996 - A federal jury has found State Senator Harold Skip Finn guilty on 12 of 22 felony counts yesterday. Finn and two tribal officials of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe were accused of stealing more than one-million-dollars from the Band's self-insurance fund and conspiring to defraud the Government.
April 15, 1996 - Many people say small government is better because its more accessible and can act quickly to solve problems, but local government has its own problems. Mark Steil of Mainstreet Radio highlights an example of that in the southern Minnesota town of Kasota, where quarrels with the city council and mayor might be every bit as nasty as those found in Washington D.C., turning neighbor against neighbor and leaving scars which can last years.
April 15, 1996 - On this segment of Voices of Minnesota, MPR’s Dan Olson sits down with one of our region's best known poets Michael Dennis Browne of his early career in the arts, his travels to China, and his new work.
April 15, 1996 - MPR’s John Rabe talks with Lou Bellamy, artistic director of Penumbra Theatre, about the arts organization celebrating its 20th season.
April 15, 1996 - On this segment of Voices of Minnesota, MPR’s Dan Olson sits down with one of our region's best known poets Michael Dennis Browne in his home to talk about his life and poetry.
April 16, 1996 - Cuba maintains a peculiar place in the American psyche. A tropical paradise, once the playground of rich American tourists, it's is now decried as the home of Castro's communism. Travel writer Pico Iyer... best known for his pieces on his trips to out of the way spots... says he fell in love with Cuba and its ambiguities on his first visit. It's those ambiguities that led him to set his first novel on the island. "Cuba and the Night" tell the story of the love affair between Richard, an American photojournalist and Lourdes, a young Cuban woman.