June 15, 2012 - Father's Day is this Sunday. The upcoming holiday got storyteller Kevin Kling thinking about how fathers and sons communicate. He sent us this essay.
June 19, 2012 - Veteran Minnesota rock musican Kevin Bowe has given himself a gift. It's an album of his own songs, titled "Natchez Trace." MPR’s Chris Roberts talks with Bowe about the experience.
June 19, 2012 - Minnesota's 1st Congressional District appears to be ripe territory for Republicans. Yet political observers say DFL Congressman Tim Walz stands a good chance of winning a fourth term despite voting much maligned Democratic priorities such as the health care overhaul and financial reform. MPR’s Brett Neely looks at how Walz has balanced a relatively liberal voting record in a somewhat conservative rural district.
June 20, 2012 - MPR’s Tom Crann talks with meteorologist Paull Huttner about the intense rainstorm that passed over the Duluth area. Huttner details the specific atmospheric conditions that brought the rain.
June 20, 2012 - Craig Sanders, a retired meteorologist who lives in Duluth, talks about his experience with the Duluth flooding, bailing out water from his house. He also comments on the job meteorologists have to do.
June 20, 2012 - MPR’s Tom Crann interviews Don Ness, mayor of Duluth, about conditions of city in the aftermath of extrodinary rainfall in a 24-hour period. Ness declared a state of emergency today.
June 20, 2012 - Rob Skutevik, a pastor of the Fond du Lac Community Church, talks about his experience with the Duluth flooding. He and his family left with the water lapping up his front steps, and those of the church next door.
June 20, 2012 - MPR’s Dan Kraker interviews residents in Duluth about their experiences during intense rainstorm and subsequent flooding.
June 20, 2012 - Nicole Kor, a student at University of Minnesota Duluth, talks about escaping from her basement apartment last night.
June 20, 2012 - The 2008 immigration raid of a kosher meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa, is the focus of Clandestino, a new play at the Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis. The show examines the deportation of nearly 400 undocumented workers and the impact this had on the tiny Iowa town.