A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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August 31, 2012 - MPR’s Conrad Wilson profiles John Gagliardi, St. John’s University football coach, and his unique coaching philosophy. For decades, Gagliardi has been incorporating a different approach to practice: limited contact. While unorthodoxed in the football world, it seems to pay dividends with less injuries…and 30 conference championships, four national titles and a record 485 wins.
August 31, 2012 - MPR’s Brandt Williams reports that August is the deadliest month in Minneapolis for homicides, and most are African American men. Williams profiles a few young Black men trying to beat the odds by leaving the path that often leads to early death or prison.
September 6, 2012 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Lou Bellamy, artistic director of Penumbra Theatre, on the financial struggles affecting the organization. The nationally-acclaimed African-American Theater company will stage no shows this season and has laid off a third of its 16 full-time staff members.
September 10, 2012 - MPR’s Alex Friedrich reports on claims by former employees and students of Twin-Cities-based Globe University and the Minnesota School of Business, citing predatory recruiting practices, harassment of students and poor results.
September 14, 2012 - With two polls out showing that Minnesotans favor a proposed constitutional amendment that would make marriage only between a man and a woman, opponents of the measure are in the midst of a strategy they think will sway voters. A key component will be conversations with voters designed to elicit compassion for gays and lesbians.
September 19, 2012 - MPR’s Dan Kraker reports on Wildlife Research Institute biologist Lynn Rogers, and his controversial approach to research of bears in Northern Minnesota.
September 26, 2012 - MPR’s Nikki Tundel profiles Pao Her, a Hmong photographer beginning a new visual arts tradition. The photography showcases the Hmong American experience through the eyes of someone who, as a child, often felt smothered by her Hmong culture.
September 27, 2012 - MPR’s Elizabeth Baier gives a summary report on first debate between DFL Congressman Tim Walz and his Republican challenger former State Representative Allan Quist as they battle for 1st Congressional District seat. The debate included some feisty exchanges between the candidates, who met in the town of Byron, just west of Rochester.
November 7, 2012 - MPR’s Laura Yuen reports on Minnesotans rejection of a proposed constitutional amendment that would have made marriage only between a man and a woman. It also made the state the only one in the nation to defeat a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
November 9, 2012 - All Things Considered presents MPR’s Sasha Aslanian report on how the Minnesotans United for All Families campaign brought down a seemingly unbeatable amendment that would have added a definition to the state constitution that marriage is only between a man and a woman (which is already state law). The defeat of the marriage amendment was a victory that was surprising, historic, and extremely calculated by gay rights supporters.