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.
May 6, 1996 - One year ago, attornies settled a big Minneapolis housing discrimination lawsuit with an agreement to move hundreds of residents out of delapidated public housing and find homes for many of them in the suburbs. So far, only one suburb has agreed to participate. The settlement is called the Holman Decree - it's named after one of the families who brought the suit against the federal government and the city. The suit says public agencies created and perpetuated public housing discrimination in Minneapolis based on race for over forty years.
May 8, 1996 -
May 9, 1996 -
May 9, 1996 - Minneapolis school officials are defending the safety of their school buses, following the second fatal accident in as many months. Yesterday, north Minneapolis 8th-grader Charles E. Johnson Jr. died when he leaned out a school bus window and struck his head against a tree.
May 10, 1996 - Duluth poet Barton Sutter provides commentary on the importance of poetry and it’s status in the United States.
May 10, 1996 -
May 13, 1996 - This weekend marked the unofficial beginning of summer for thousands of walleye anglers, who opened their season after what seemed to many the longest winter in memory. The winter, in fact, isn't completely over: ice still covers a number of lakes in northern Minnesota -- anyone wanting to fish walleye on Lake of the Woods will have to chop a hole to do it.
May 15, 1996 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter caught up with the Rolling Plains Gallery as it made a stop on Minnesota's Iron Range. The mobile art gallery has paintings bolted to the inside of a semi trailer. The Plains Art Museum in Fargo saw it as a unique solution to the problem of art galleries being few and far between in rural Minnesota, where residents don't often get to see works by professional artists.
May 15, 1996 -
May 15, 1996 -