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.
November 5, 1996 - St. Paul native Toni Stone, the first woman to play on a men's professional baseball team, died on November 2nd, 1996 at a nursing home near Oakland, California. She was 75 years old. In 1990, Stone came back to St. Paul to talk to a group of students during Women's History Month. MPR’s Bill Wareham was there and presents this audio from an original 1990 broadcast as a remembrance.
November 6, 1996 - Fresh from his election victory Tuesday, Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone wasted NO TIME reflecting on his successful campaign against Rudy Boschwitz, instead he was thinking ahead to his place in the new congress.
November 6, 1996 - Minnesota Democratic U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone easily won re-election last night in his match with Republican Rudy Boschwitz.
November 6, 1996 - Perhaps the closest race in the state was for Minnesota's first district congressional seat. Democratic challenger Mary Rieder worked her way up the polls in the last days of the campaign, but not enough to take the seat from incumbent Republican Gil Gutknecht. Gutknecht received 53 percent of the vote, compared to Rieder's 47 percent.
November 6, 1996 - Voters in the Seventh Congressional District, which stretches from Saint Cloud to the North Dakota border, have returned D-F-L'er Collin Peterson to Congress for a fourth term. The race for the Seventh District seat has been extremely close the previous two elections, but this time, about forty percentage points separated Peterson and Republican challenger Darrell McKigney.
November 6, 1996 - To paraphrase the President, the last dog has died in most campaigns across the country, and various media watchdogs and analysts are picking over the bones of the election season. As election pathologist, Larry Jacobs, a political scientist at the U-of-M, along with a counterpart at Columbia University, was watching polls and how they were used in 1996.
November 6, 1996 - DFLers will retain majorities in both the state House and Senate. Republicans thought they had a good chance to wrest control from the Democrats -- in part because no fewer than seven DFLers faced legal or ethical investigations during the past year. Their chances seemed especially good in the House, where Democrats held a slim one-vote majority. But DFLers headed into the election with a stronger national ticket, and a focus on education spending that seemed to play well in certain parts of the Twin Cities.
November 6, 1996 - Political anaylsts say incumbency was an important factor Tuesday in congressional races across the country including the re-election of southern Minnesota Congressmen... Republican Gil Gutknecht and Democrat David Minge.
November 6, 1996 - Republican Congressman Gil Gutknecht's victory in the First District seems to reinforce the widely held belief, conservative voters dominate the district in southeastern Minnesota. Mankato State University Political Scientist Joe Kunkel disagrees. He says the outcome of this race has more to do with the circumstances of this contest, than the political leanings of voters.
November 8, 1996 - MPR’s Mark Zdechlik reports on the Minnesota Twins and its allies looking to push lawmakers at the Minnesota State Capitol for a news stadium, the team going so far as to give a year’s notice as a warning on future of team in the state.