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 27, 1996 - Today, some people will spend time thinking about those who have given their lives in battle. Commentator Ann Daly Goodwin says she has come to realize that in any war, there are victims on both sides. On this Memorial Day, she will remember soldiers who have died, as well as a young girl.
May 27, 1996 -
May 27, 1996 - A strong majority of voters surveyed in the Minnesota Public Radio/Pioneer Press/Kare 11 say the legal or ethical transgressions of DFL lawmakers last session will affect how they vote in statehouse races. That could mean trouble for the DFL, which is trying to hold on to majorities in the House and Senate.
May 27, 1996 - Five months ago, three bicyclists from Saint John's University in Collegeville set out on a journey called the "Expedition of the Americas". The team planned to bike from the tip of South America back to Minnesota, relying on the hospitality of people they met for food and a place to stay. The team ...
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May 28, 1996 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports of an emerging safety issue in rural Minnesota…a lack of firefighters. Even as demands for fire protection rise, the number of volunteers is shrinking; in many communities there are barely enough firefighters to answer a call for help.
May 28, 1996 - U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, along with leaders of "Common Cause" the state Independence Party and leaders of "United We Stand," is in Minnesota today promoting a campaign finance proposal pending in Washington.
May 28, 1996 - The eldest member of the Shakopee Mdwakanton Dakota tribe, Louise Bluestone Smith, died recently at the age of 85. In the last few years of her life, Smith received some half a million dollars a year in profits from the Mystic Lake casino -- along with the other 150 or so members of the Shakopee tribe. But until the end, Smith lived in the modest trailer in which she'd spent most of her life in poverty. She spent her last years in a tireless and unsuccessful legal effort to stop tribal chairman Stanley Crooks from enrolling new tribe members. Smith said many of the new members did not meet the tribe's requirement of one-quarter Shakopee Mdwakanton blood. Smith insisted that her fight with the tribal leadership was not about money, but about the integrity of the tribe. In an interview with Minnesota Public Radio in 1994, Louise Bluestone Smith said the casino business has brought her people dramatic wealth, but also introduced greed -- a concept that she says was foreign to the Dakota people when she was a child.
May 28, 1996 - State and county social service officials in St Cloud plan to beef up security measures, in the wake of the arrest of a former Stearns County employee accused of embezzling more than 400-thousand dollars from a state fund. The alleged crime has shocked both county taxpayers and public officials, who want to ensure the security of money designed to help the poor.
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