April 9, 1996 -
April 12, 1996 - Midday presents "Renewing the Social Contract,” a special three-hour program that looks at the issue of economic insecurity across the country as society moves into the information age.
April 13, 1996 - Award-winning poet C.K. Williams reads his poem titled “Love Beginnings.”
April 13, 1996 - For poetry month, MPR’s Great Cunningham talks with poet C.K. Williams about his experience with poetry.
April 13, 1996 -
April 13, 1996 - A federal jury has found State Senator Harold Skip Finn guilty on 12 of 22 felony counts yesterday. Finn and two tribal officials of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe were accused of stealing more than one-million-dollars from the Band's self-insurance fund and conspiring to defraud the Government.
April 15, 1996 - On this segment of Voices of Minnesota, MPR’s Dan Olson sits down with one of our region's best known poets Michael Dennis Browne of his early career in the arts, his travels to China, and his new work.
April 15, 1996 - On this segment of Voices of Minnesota, MPR’s Dan Olson sits down with one of our region's best known poets Michael Dennis Browne in his home to talk about his life and poetry.
April 16, 1996 - Cuba maintains a peculiar place in the American psyche. A tropical paradise, once the playground of rich American tourists, it's is now decried as the home of Castro's communism. Travel writer Pico Iyer... best known for his pieces on his trips to out of the way spots... says he fell in love with Cuba and its ambiguities on his first visit. It's those ambiguities that led him to set his first novel on the island. "Cuba and the Night" tell the story of the love affair between Richard, an American photojournalist and Lourdes, a young Cuban woman.
April 17, 1996 - MPR’s John Rabe talks with Susan Gibel, of Gay and Lesbian Community Action Council (GLCAC), about the avenues for assistance in Minnesota regarding same-sex domestic abuse.