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 8, 1996 - Essay on hunting later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map by Barton Sutter", published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
November 8, 1996 - Minnesota has more timberwolves in the wild than ever before, and they're covering more ground. Once limited to the arrowhead region, wolves are now establishing packs as far south as Camp Ripley. As the firearms deer season opens tomorrow, hunters in central Minnesota have a better chance than ever to see a wolf in the woods; and some of them aren't happy about what they see as "the competition."
November 8, 1996 - MPR’s Gary Eichten interviews Roy Grow, political science professor at Carleton College, about Walter Mondale’s successful tenure as U.S. ambassador to Japan.
November 8, 1996 - MPR’s John Rabe interviews Walter Mondale about his decision to set down as U.S. ambassador to Japan. Mondale reflects on his tenure, and what lies ahead for next ambassador.
November 11, 1996 - The first feature-film created entirely in Minnesota will be released in theatres this month, but you probably won't see it. "The Visionary" was scripted, filmed and scored locally, with Minnesota actors, stuntmen and crew.
November 12, 1996 - The Justice Department estimates that more than 650-thousand young people are involved in gangs, and those gang members committed more than three thousand homicides in 1995. In Minnesota, authorities from the Governor to various police chiefs have announced new plans to attack what they call growing gang problems. Politicians, and popular culture, often paint gang members as irretrievable outlaws, who will only leave the gang in handcuffs or a body bag. But experts say most gang members eventually go straight.
November 13, 1996 - Members of the Sierra Club say the Saint Croix River should be closed to boat traffic from the Mississippi, in order to prevent the further spread of the exotic zebra mussel.
November 13, 1996 - Snowmobilers yesterday protested the National Park Service's proposal to close parts of Voyageurs national park this winter to protect wolves. And a renowned wolf biologist joined the protesters in questioning whether snowmobile use harms the wolf population. The Park Service presented its plan at a public meeting in St Paul.
November 15, 1996 - MPR’s Dan Olson profiles Fredrik Melius Christiansen, a Norwegian-born violinist and choral conductor in the Lutheran choral tradition. Christiansen founded the choir at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Olson interviews St. Olaf choral conductor Anton Armstrong about Christiansen.
November 15, 1996 - Voices from the Heartland presents poet Diane Glancy reading "Snow," which is a reflection on the Halloween blizzard of 1991.