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.
August 15, 1996 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter reports on Camp Knutson, a camp near Brainerd created to help people learn to live with HIV or AIDS within their families. Organizers say they believe it's the first time a summer camp has been set up for whole families affected by HIV and AIDS.
August 16, 1996 - Jerry Dennis is an acclaimed nature, science, and outdoor writer whose books have appeared on national bestseller lists, have been translated into six languages, and are taught in many universities and high schools. His essays and stories have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Smithsonian, Orion, American Way, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Gray's Sporting Journal. Among the awards he has received are the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Michigan Author of the Year Award, the Great Lakes Culture Award, and four Best Book of the Year awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America.
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August 19, 1996 - Chucking your job -- most people dream of it sometime. Leave your desk, leave your boss, leave office politics, hit the road. For most of us, that's destined to remain a dream; but Loren Eyrich has managed to pull it off. A few years ago, Eyrich walked off his job at a Florida car dealership, and never went back. He bought an old pickup camper and hit the road: oldies on the radio, coffee in the thermos, a plate of ribs waiting in the next small town. Of course, making a living that way isn't easy. Eyrich keeps himself in coffee and ribs by writing a fat quarterly newspaper on the joys and burdens of the traveling life. The newspaper is called Heartland Highways -- and Leif Enger found Eyrich along one of them, camped in a state park south of Brainerd.
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August 20, 1996 - Officials at Minneapolis city hall say they're disturbed by a newspaper report alleging vice officers received favors to overlook illegal activity at a downtown strip club. Most city councilmembers expressed confidence in chief Robert Olson's ability to investigate the matter and to avoid future problems in enforcing vice laws. But at least one councilmember wants major changes in the department...including the ouster of its top deputies.
August 22, 1996 - On this special All Things Considered live at the Minnesota State Fair, Kevin Kling performs a piece from "Diary of a Madman."
August 22, 1996 - Excerpt of former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz stumping with constituents at the Minnesota State Fair. MPR’s John Rabe briefly interviews Boschwitz.