April 30, 1998 - Chris Farrell, MPR's Senior Business and Economics Editor, and V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota Economics professor, examine the stock market and concern of a "the bubble economy." Farrell and Chari also answer listener questions. Program begins with a brief report on definition and example of a “bubble market.”
April 30, 1998 - Martin Sampson, University of Minnesota Political science professor; Ido Oren, an Israeli citizen and University of Minnesota International Relations professor; and Miriam Kluska, who is in Tel Aviv, discuss Israel’s 50th Anniversary. Program begins with a report by NPR’s Linda Gradstein on the celebration taking place in Israel.
April 30, 1998 - A failed guitarist and a former punk girl find love in the new local film, "Snow." Dialogue and character drive the film more than action, but there is still plenty to look at. Shot in black and white, the Twin Cities landscape in winter looks stark and beautiful. Minneapolis filmmaker Eric Tretbar based his story on the people he knew in the Twin Cities music scene and what they did when they got a little too old to rock-and-roll. The movie makes its Twin Cities premiere tonight as part of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Film Festival.
May 1, 1998 - With her pending retirement, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Esther Tomljanovich discusses her time in the courts. She recollects on her time in the trial court and being a Minnesota Supreme Court justice. Tomljanovich also answers listener questions.
May 1, 1998 - Some analysis of the results of the 8th grade basic skills tests, with Kate Trewick, Assistant Commissioner for Teaching & Learning at the MN Dept of Children, Families and Learning; David Heistad, Director of Research, Evaluation and Assessment for the Minneapolis Public Schools; and State Rep. Becky Kelso, Chair of the House K-12 Education Finance Division. The group also answers listener questions. Sandra Peterson, the President of the Minnesota Federation of Teachers, is also interviewed.
May 1, 1998 - The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival closes tomorrow night, with the local premiere of a locally made film which may have more riding on it than just its own success. "With or Without You" is the story of two young adults thrust into a relationship because of a pregnancy. It was made by Mt. Curve Productions in Minneapolis, a company which is trying to help Minnesota become not only a place where movies are shot, but are produced.
May 4, 1998 - This program is titled "Inventing the Poster Child” and focuses on unsolicited charity from the perspective of those who have received it. It also explores how the disability charity business was built and how people with disabilities are working to change it.
May 5, 1998 - On the day of the North Carolina public vote on baseball subsidies, MPR sports analyst Howard Sinker discusses it and the future of the Minnesota Twins. Sinker also answers listener questions. Programs begins with report from MPR's Martin Kaste in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
May 5, 1998 - This program is titled " What's Work Got To Do With It?” and explores how new and old ideas about social welfare…public programs versus philanthropic ones, affect the lives of people with disabilities.
May 5, 1998 - MPR’s William Wilcoxen reports on RADIO REY, a Spanish-language radio service that broadcasts more than thirty hours a week from a grocery store on Concord Street in St. Paul’s West Side.