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 16, 1996 - A new state report says Twin Cities minorities with developmental disabilities are more likely to be sent to Cambridge state hospital than are whites, and are less likely to get the more sought-after home-based services. Minorities make up twenty percent of new admissions to the Cambridge state hospital since 1992, a proportion more than three times that of minorities in the state, and twice the minority population of Hennepin County. State Senator Linda Berglin of Minneapolis says she finds the report "disturbing." She asked for the data after several African-American parents complained they'd been denied in-home services that are routinely given to white families with disabled children. State officials say the higher rate of institutionalization among minorities is not necessarily the result of discrimination. In the first of three reports on state programs for the developmentally disabled, Minnesota Public Radio's John Biewen examines the case of an African American mother who charges that she and her mentally retarded son
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April 17, 1996 - MPR’s John Rabe talks with Susan Gibel, of Gay and Lesbian Community Action Council (GLCAC), about the avenues for assistance in Minnesota regarding same-sex domestic abuse.
April 17, 1996 - Native American author Louise Erdrich reads an excerpt from her book "Tales of Burning Love."
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April 17, 1996 - The passing of a loved one can lead a person to do extraordinary things. This mornings St Paul Pioneer Press tells how a St Paul woman plans to float her fathers ashes down the Mississippi in a pop bottle. It was one of his last requests allowing him to finally make a long planned trip to Louisiana It's a story which could well resonate with British Novelist Graham Swift. His new novel "Last Orders" tells the tale of a group of four men travelling to throw their friend's ashes off the pier in an English seaside resort.
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April 17, 1996 - The Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association will award its highest honor to Saint Joseph police officer Brian Klinefelter tonight. Klinefelter was shot and killed January 29, after stopping three robbery suspects.
April 17, 1996 - New statistics released this week are fueling concern that the Minnesota system for people with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities... does not serve minorities fairly. The report says minorities are admitted disproportionately to at least one state hospital... and are more likely than whites to be on waiting lists for more desirable home-care services. In part two of our series, Minnesota Public Radio's John Biewen reports the findings are consistent with those in other states.