May 18, 2004 - MPR’s Chris Julin interviews three same-sex couples in Duluth about their thoughts on marriage. Gay men and lesbians don't speak with one voice on the subject. Some of them don't want to get married, and even those who do have different ideas about what marriage is.
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May 18, 2004 -
May 21, 2004 - Gail Sheehy and Pauline Boss speak as part of the University of Minnesota's Great Conversation series. They have both written about the victims of 9/11. Gail Sheehy is author of Middletown, America and Pauline Boss is author of Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief.
May 21, 2004 - MPR’s Laura McCallum profiles Cy Thao, a legislator and artist, who has an exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "The Hmong Migration" is a series of fifty oil paintings by Thao, and represent the unfolding of 5,000 years of Hmong history. Thao said he feels an obligation to tell the Hmong story, and to preserve it for generations.
May 27, 2004 - MPR’s Dan Olson profiles The Dale Warland Singers as the choral group is ends 32 years of performance. Founder and conductor Dale Warland announced a year ago this was the group's final season. He says he'll devote more time to arranging and composing.
May 28, 2004 - Mainstreet Radio's Tim Post profiles Cody Rogahn and Jonathan Yarbrough, a couple from west-central Minnesota that became one of the first same-sex couples to take advantage of the new Massachusetts law allowing gay couples to wed.
May 28, 2004 - Former Governor Elmer Andersen's remarks Wednesday night at the Barnes and Noble Galleria bookstore. He celebrates his 95th birthday next month and is out with a new book, "I Trust to be Believed".Plus, 14-year-old Grant Remmen of Detroit Lakes. The Minnesota spelling bee champion is heading out this weekend to the National Spelling Bee in Washington DC.
May 31, 2004 - Emily Yellin, author of the new book "Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II".
June 1, 2004 - (For air on M.E. 6-1-04) The Pawlenty Administration is moving ahead with its plan to end long-term homelessness in Minnesota. Legislators this session didn't approve $20-million dollars for the proposal's first-phase. But the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency says 59 apartments are already being developed using money the agency has re-directed from its own budget. Over the next seven years, the administration hopes to build or refurbish 4000 apartments to house the state's most chronically homeless residents. Homeless advocates generally welcome the idea, but some wonder if it's targeting one group at the expense of another. Minnesota Public Radio's Lorna Benson reports.