October 20, 2003 - One man's train is another man's paperback. Little Canada resident Paul Lareau says he couldn't live in a world without books. And he's making sure no one else has to either. The 61-year-old computer analyst, and former librarian, is part of a growing international movement called BookCrossing. The group's members place books in public places in hopes that others will pick them up, give them a read, and then leave them for someone else to enjoy. Over the last few months, Lareau has released more than 3000 books into the world -- abandoning them everywhere from coffee shops to roadside rest stops. He says the goal of the BookCrossing movement is to create a free book exchange of infinite proportions.
October 21, 2003 - Mainstreet Radio's Bob Kelleher looks back to 1978, when two lawyers drafted an historic compromise that still guides activities in the Boundary Waters today. Report includes various interviews and speech excerpts.
October 21, 2003 - In the days after Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone's death in 2002’, politicians from across the political spectrum said they would help build a memorial to him at a St. Paul community center. Congress appropriated nearly nine-million dollars to build the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building on the site of Neighborhood House on St. Paul's West Side.
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October 27, 2003 - President Bush said Monday that U.S. progress in Iraq is making insurgents more "desperate" and spurring attacks such as the bombings at the international Red Cross headquarters and three police stations across Baghdad that killed dozens of people. We discuss the post-war situation in Iraq with J. Brian Atwood, dean of the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He was head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for several years.
October 29, 2003 - MPR’s Stephanie Hemphill looks back at fight to stop the pollution of Lake Superior, an early chapter in the history of the environmental movement. It established the principle that the government can force industry to clean up its pollution.