February 7, 2011 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles Minneapolis rapper and emcee Carnage the Executioner, aka Terrell Woods. Roberts interviews Carnage the Executioner about his personal life and album “Worth the Wait." Roberts also talks with others in the music industry about Carnage the Executioner’s talents.
February 8, 2011 - Tim Pawlenty has been touting the success of Minnesota's home-grown health reforms during his national book tour as he prepares for possible run for the presidency. The former Republican governor says the state has designed a good blueprint for reining-in costs, that the rest of the nation should follow. While it's true that Minnesota has been experimenting with new ways of paying for care, some health care observers believe it's a stretch to say that Minnesota's experiments have had much of an effect on costs at this point. We picked out two of Pawlenty's Minnesota reform claims and examined them.
February 18, 2011 - Midday presents A Prairie Home Companion host and creator Garrison Keillor speaking to an audience at Concordia University in St. Paul about the challenges he's had to face as a writer and how his upbringing has helped him deal with them.
February 21, 2011 - Minneapolis rapper Sims has a reputation for being the most overtly-political emcee in the hip hop crew, Doomtree, and a track on his “Bad Time Zoo” CD takes aim at ‘progressive’ public radio listeners.
February 23, 2011 - MPR’s Tim Post profiles Monte Bute, a sociology professor at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul. Bute is sharing one of the toughest struggles imaginable with his students…his battle with terminal cancer.
February 28, 2011 - As part of MPR’s Youth Radio Series, Valencia McMurray revisits an incident that happened in her family... and has kept a hold on her family 14 years later. McMurray saw the affects of domestic violence firsthand as a six-year-old when her father stabbed her mother.
March 8, 2011 - Interview with Steve Sviggum and Roger Moe.
March 14, 2011 - MPR’s Euan Kerr talks with Ojibwe writer Jim Northrup. For almost 22 years, Northrup has entertained and chastened readers of his syndicated “Fond Du Lacs Follies” newspaper column. He's covered everything from the rise of casinos and treaty rights, to his love of tapping trees for syrup, and harvesting wild rice…and he always included lots of jokes.
March 16, 2011 - Garrison Keillor says he's retiring. In an interview with AARP published on their website earlier today, Keillor said he plans to step down from hosting A Prairie Home Companion in the spring of 2013.
March 17, 2011 - MPR’s Marianne Combs reports on Garrison Keillor claiming he will retire in 2013, but would he actually? In an interview with AARP published on their website, Keillor said he plans to step down from hosting A Prairie Home Companion in the spring of 2013.