June 12, 1998 - THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING A BRONZE PLAQUE HANGING IN THE STATE CAPITAL ROTUNDA MAY BE ONE STEP CLOSER TO RESOLUTION. THE PLAQUE HONORS MINNESOTANS WHO FOUGHT IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES.....BUT IT CONTAINS INACCURACIES AND LANGUAGE OFFENSIVE TO MINNESOTANS OF FILIPINO DESCENT.. THIS AFTERNOON A NEW EXHIBIT WILL GO UP NEXT TO THE PLAQUE -- AN EFFORT TO CORRECT THE MISTAKES....BUT AS Minnesota Public Radio's MARY STUCKY REPORTS, FOR SOME, IT STILL DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH.
June 15, 1998 - On this Midday program: MPR's "Voices of Minnesota" series continues, featuring in-depth interviews with musicians Romuald Tecco, longtime concertmaster of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Dominick Argento, the internationally known Minnesota composer.
June 24, 1998 - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt's recent Twin Cities address...given as part of the "Pen Pals" Author Lecture Series sponsored by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. Frank McCourt is the author of the best seller Angela's Ashes.
June 24, 1998 - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt's recent Twin Cities address...given as part of the "Pen Pals" Author Lecture Series sponsored by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. Frank McCourt is the author of the best seller Angela's Ashes.
June 24, 1998 - Prohibition caused a crime wave which engulfed Minneapolis and St. Paul in the l920's and 30's. Profits from bootlegging financed gambling and prostitution. Minneapolis journalist Walter Liggett was killed after he reported public officials profitting from the crime. Press accounts said Liggett was killed because he tried to blackmail the bootleggers. One of the eyewitnesses to his murder in l935 was his ten year old daughter, Marda. She's written a book describing how powerful enemies conspired to stop her father's work.
June 25, 1998 - Speeches from the events marking the 50th anniversary of Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey's civil rights speech to the Democratic National Convention. Speakers are NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, and writer Richard Rodriguez. You'll also hear Humphrey's speech to the convention.
June 29, 1998 - MPR’s Laura McCallum reports on another round of June thunderstorms pounding the Twin Cities. Storms rumbled through the state on June 27th and 28th, damaging homes, trees, and power lines. The Saturday storm brought down trees in St. Paul’s historic Summit neighborhood.
June 29, 1998 - MPR’s Art Hughes reports on multiple storms causing havoc in southeastern Minnesota. An uncommon weather scenario flooded homes and roads in a weekend filled with heavy rains, high winds and rapid-fire lightning in southeast Minnesota.
June 30, 1998 - MPR’s Leif Enger interviews Marvin Rainwater, an American country/rockabilly singer and songwriter from the 1950’s, who’s been living the quiet life in Aitkin County, playing guitar and tending his dahlias.
June 30, 1998 - Ray Suarez, Host of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation”, speaking at a Minnesota Journalism Center forum on the craft of interviewing.