May 29, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Rachel Reabe profiles Minnesota's Linda Eder, who is wowing Broadway audiences as the female lead in the musical version of Jekyll and Hyde. 36-year-old Eder, who grew up outside Brainerd, has an exceptional, powerful voice, according to the theater critics and fans singing her praises.
May 29, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Rachel Reabe visits a correctional facility in Faribault. Secure behind high chain link fences topped with coiled razor wire, the oldest prisoners in the system live out their remaining years.
May 29, 1997 - Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone will tour several towns in the Mississippi Delta today ... in the first part of what he's billing as a nationwide poverty tour. Over the coming weeks, Wellstone plans to retrace the steps of Robert Kennedy... who visited some of the country's poorest regions in 1967 and '68. Minnesota Public Radio's John Biewen reports on how poverty has... or has not... changed... in the past thirty years. When Senator Robert Kennedy traveled to the Mississippi Delta in 1967... he found children in tattered clothing... with no access to a doctor and, in some cases, not enough to eat. Their parents had lost their cotton-plantation jobs to mechanization. A few months later... Kennedy found similar conditions among displaced coal mining families in eastern Kentucky. Georgetown
May 29, 1997 - Try this for a good time: Join a group of strangers who disagree with your politics. Well, believe it or not, hundreds of Twin Cities residents have voluntarily participated in community circle dialogue groups this spring. They talked about eliminating racial barriers in education, housing and the workplace. Participants meet in St. Paul (tonight) Thursday evening at Macalaster College for a wrap-up event. A national figure in renewing civic participation says the popularity of citizen discussion groups is rising because of mistrust of experts. Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson has more. --------------------------------------------------------- | D-CART ITEM: 4151 | TIME: 3:48 | OUTCUE: "...soc --------------------------------------------------------- Lynelle Charay (sha RAY) was the lone African American in her community circle dialogue group. She grew up in a segregated Mississippi town before moving to Minnesota. Charay, a Minneapolis public schools social worker, says if
May 29, 1997 - The Minneapolis school board has ended its contract with a private, for-profit management company. Public Strategies Group, and its president Peter Hutchinson, took over administration of a troubled school district three and a half years ago. Board members say the company has completed its mission. But the change comes at a time when the district is being criticized by state officials and minority groups for not measuring up. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire reports... The Minneapolis school board decided in 1993 to look outside traditiona
May 30, 1997 - Midday examines the ways segregation is affecting life in the Twin Cities with guests George Latimer, former St. Paul mayor and former official with the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Vivian Jenkins Nelson, president and CEO of Inter-Race. Topics include Listeners call in with questions.
May 30, 1997 - INTRO: The changes wrought in the Catholic Church by Vatican II in the 1960's still meet with resistance by traditionalists. One area in particular is the use of latin in saying the mass. Latin IS allowed under certain circumstances, and a group dedicated to promoting the latin mass is holding its annual convention in the Twin Cities this weekend. Mary Stucky reports the latin mass brings a with it a certain style of worship.... centuries of musical heritage... and a lot of controversy.
May 31, 1997 - In sports news: The Philadelphia Flyers take on the Detroit Red Wings in Game One of the Stanley Cup finals tonight. The Flyers have not won hockey's top prize in 22 years and the Red Wings are seeking to end a 42-year title drought. The Minnesota Twins play game two of their three game series against the Anaheim Angels tonight. The Twins are in the midst of a five game road series. Although it seems like plans for a Twins stadiums are "on ice"--hockey plans are heating up in St. Paul, Weekend Edition Sports Commentator Jay Weiner says while a NHL team may come, the Twins are threatening to go---so, we turn to a Marvin Gaye song to summarize this situatuion---WHAT'S GOING ON???
May 31, 1997 - A new carousel rolled to life in Minnesota this weekend. Twenty hand-carved animals dip and bob to kalliope music at Lark Toys in the small town of Kellogg along the Mississippi River. It's the first carousel carved of Minnesota wood by Minnesotans and features many native animals.
May 31, 1997 - Minnesota education officials say the results of a basic skills writing test offer no statewide insights because so few students participated. The Department of Children, Families and Learning today released scored from the voluntary practice test. Despite its lack of meanigful statistics, educators say the test was an important exercise in the move toward statewide education standards.