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 19, 1996 - Maple syrup time in Minnesota means warm days when the nights stay cool. Spring has been teasing us this year, but still the sap is running in the maple trees. Ojibwe storyteller Ann Dunn recently received a gift from her mother that brought back sweet and sticky maple-flavored memories.
April 19, 1996 - The state Supreme Court today made it tougher for Minnesotans to sue alleged sex abusers for cases of abuse that are more than a few years old.
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April 20, 1996 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham interviews Minnesota author Louise Erdrich about her book “Tales of Burning Love.” Erdrich tells the intimate and powerful stories of five Great Plains women whose lives are connected through one man.
April 20, 1996 - Governor Carlson has fired Commissioner of Public Safety Michael Jordan. In a harshly-worded letter the governor complains of too many errors of judgement -- including the mishandling by a top Jordan aide of a death threat against Carlson. Jordan says his record shows he always acted in the best interests of Minnesotans...and that he's been dismissed unfairly.
April 22, 1996 - Mainstreet Radio’s Mark Steil reports that some citizens in southeast Minnesota are upset the Department of Natural Resources has spent a million dollars to buy a farm bordering the Mississippi River. DNR officials counter the land is worth protecting, calling it a scenic treasure state residents will be able to enjoy forever.
April 22, 1996 - A Voices of Minnesota segment feature. MPR’s Catherine Winter speaks with Veda Ponikvar, Iron Range newspaper editor of Chisolm Free Press. Ponikvar talks of the history and economy of Iron Range, and selling of the newspaper. This is part 2 of discussion.
April 22, 1996 - On today's Voices of Minnesota, we'll hear from newspaper editor and publisher Veda Ponikvar. On Minnesota's Iron Range, everybody knows the name Veda Ponikvar. She has been the editor of the Chisholm Free Press for nearly fifty years. She's also been involved in just about every democratic political campaign, and counted among her friends congressman John Blatnick from the 8th district and senators Hubert Humphrey, and Eugene McCarthy. She has watched the Iron Range towns boom and bust, and she has championed countless projects to try to keep the Range on its feet -- projects such as Iron World, the creation of the Bounday Waters Canoe Area, and, more recently, the Northwest Airlines Reservation Center in Chisholm.
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