April 10, 1998 - At first glance, many of the photographs in the new Suburban Landscapes exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis have the same mundane quality as an urban commute. For example, curator Colleen Sheehy points to a picture of a huge banner hanging across the back of a new home in a metro area subdivsion which reads, "model home." Seen from the highway says Sheehy, it's another banal image flashing by. On the wall in a museum the layers of meaning behind the words "model home," reveal themselves.
April 13, 1998 - A special Talk of Minnesota call-in related to the Minnesota Citizens’ Forum on public financing of sports. Program begins with a report summary of forum; then MPR listener’s views are presented.
April 13, 1998 - MPR political commentators Bob Meek and Tom Horner will be in the studio to assess the Wellstone Presidential bid, the governor's race and other political issues. Program begins with report from Mark Moran in Iowa.
April 13, 1998 - Farmers around Comfrey and LeCenter are asking for volunteers to help clear their fields of tornado debris so they can begin their spring planting. Bill Free-DELL of Lutheran Social Service says the weather delayed an immediate clean-up: Bill Fredell is with Lutheran Social Services. There are buses providing round-trips from the Twin Cities. Sun 28-MAY 11:37:29 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
April 13, 1998 - Ojibwa Indians are gillnetting and spearing this spring, under rights first granted in 1837. After a long court battle, the Mille Lacs and other tribes were given authority to regulate their own hunting and fishing in a large section of east-central Minnesota -- including Lake Mille Lacs, the state's most popular walleye lake. It is a historic spring for the tribes -- and a dark one for treaty opponents, who still hope the Supreme Court will take up their cause. Leif Enger retraces the eight-year dispute. The 161-year-old treaty is a short, simple document -- you could read it twice before this story's over. In plain language, the Ojibwa yield t
April 13, 1998 - Saint Paul for Monday--prior to the midday call-in at 11am AND note anncr; tag!!!!!!! Minnesota's gubernatorial candidates are finding that public financing of sports teams is one of the top political issues on the minds of voters. A cross-section of concerned citizens are participating in the SERIES of public forums sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio--the Star Tribune and KTCA-TV. They recently gathered in Saint Paul, Duluth, and Rochester for a teleconference on the issue of public financing of sports. Judging from their comments, MOST Minnesotans oppose such government funding: Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports: ANNOUNCER TAG: TUNE IN TO MIDDAY THIS MORNING AT 11, FOR MORE ON PUBLIC FINANCING OF SPORTS AND THE GOVE
April 13, 1998 - The state Board of Education will vote tonight in northeast Minnesota. If approved, the school will be run by KidsPeace, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit company. It will offer education and vocational training to troubled teenage boys. Some Iron Range legislators fought the project, but residents of Buhl are welcoming it with open arms. Minnesota Public Radio's Amy Radil reports. News of the proposed KidsPeace school first surfaced in some stormy sessions of the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board. Some board members opposed another juvenile facility in northeast Minnesota because they feared it
April 13, 1998 - Comfrey schools will reopen today (Monday, April 13th), two weeks and a day after a tornado swept through the southwest Minnesota community. The tornado heavily damaged the Comfrey elementary school and high school, so students will travel to Sanborn to resume classes. Mainstreet Radio's Mark Steil reports the startup of school is important for both towns: Comfrey students won't need to bring any supplies when they make the 20 mile bus trip to Sanborn. Standing in a third grade classroom, elementary school music teacher Laurie Fredin points out donated items neatly laid out on each desk:
April 13, 1998 - It will be another week before students at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter return to classes on their tornado-ravaged campus. Officials had hoped to reopen the college today, but delays in debris cleanup and restoring power pushed that back a week. The small Lutheran college faces a long and expensive rebuilding process. But the money's pouring in and administrators are confident they'll emerge from the debris even better than before. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire reports... (Sound of bobcat) In a parking lot at Gustavus Adolphus College, workers take a break from hauling debris to unload a semi-trailer full of donated trees. The tornado stripped the campus almost bare of its large mature trees. Campus Gardener Bil
April 13, 1998 - "I read a book one day and my whole life was changed." So begins the new novel by acclaimed Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk called "The New Life." Critics in the same sentence compare Pamuk's writing to that of Nabakov, Borges, Proust, and Garcia-Marquez. "The New Life" is about a Turkish engineering student whose existence is magically transformed and uprooted by love, political conspiracy, travel and danger simply by the act of reading a book. It's relatively rare that American readers encounter a Turkish novel, much less a Turkish novelist in person, but that's precisely what will happen tonight at the Hungry Mind in St. Paul when Pamuk makes a scheduled stop on his book tour promoting "The New Life." Pamuk says although he's probably the first Turkish author to do an American book tour, he doesn't consider himself an ambassador.