January 27, 1998 - Like the rest of the nation people in our area are talking about the goings-on in Washington. We asked folks in Bemidji, St Paul, and Sioux Falls for their opinions on the scandal and whether the President ought to talk about it in tonight's State of the Union speech.
January 16, 1998 - Even in the recent bitter weather people are choosing to live outside in the Twin Cities... They're under bridges, in abandoned buildings... bundled against the cold. The Salvation Army tries to lend a hand by sending out a special truck delivering hot drinks and food, blankets and bedrolls. The driver is well known to the people he serves. His first name is Kelly... its Salvation Army Policy not to reveal his last... and he was homeless himself for a longtime. He told Mary Stucky his real job is providing companionship to people he knows aren't going to come in from the cold.
January 13, 1998 - At first blush, a plan to take a century-old theater in downtown Minneapolis ... put it on a giant truck and move it three blocks down Hennepin Avenue, sounds a little crazy. But the group that is pushing the plan has a knack for the gargantuan. Artspace Projects which already operates the Hennepin Center for the Arts wants to save the historic theater from demolition and provide the city with a new performance space. Whether that makes financial sense is still a question. But as Mary Stucky reports, Artspace has acheived the near impossible before.
January 9, 1998 - The latest cold blast brings an eye-watering focus back to our winter, which has been so unseasonably mild so far. While many of us have celebrated the nice weather by brazen tee-shirt-wearing, the warm weather has meant many different things to people in our region. With the thermometer plunging we went out to get a sampling.
January 6, 1998 - Around 200 angry landowners at a hearing in Thief River Falls forcefully told state officials they want changes in the laws protecting wolves. The Timberwolf will likely be removed from the Federal Endangered Species list next year... and the Minnesota DNR is gathering input at 12 public hearings around the state on how to manage the wolf population.
November 7, 1997 - Midday offers another program in the continuing "Voices of Minnesota" interview series, featuring conversations with Andre Lewis of the Honeywell Foundation; Win Wallin of Medtronic; and Dominique Serrand of Theatre de la Jeune Lune.
October 1, 1997 - 2099 is a playlist In his new novel "Floating Kingdom", Minneapolis writer George Rabasa tells the story of a family living on a tiny island in the middle of the Rio Grande, smack in the middle of the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
October 1, 1997 - In his new novel "Floating Kingdom", Minneapolis writer George Rabasa tells the story of a family living on a tiny island in the middle of the Rio Grande, smack in the middle of the border between the U.S. and Mexico. The patriarch Seguila makes his living guiding illegal immigrants across the border; his son-in-law makes his living robbing those same people. One day Seguilo and his grandson come across the battered form of a teenager from north of the border, who has run afoul of bandits. "Floating Kingdom" is about a family on the edge, on the edge of two nations, and the edge of survival.
September 18, 1997 - Jane Kenyon was an essayist and poet who published several collections of work and contributed to the New Yorker and Atlantic magazines. Kenyon wrote about many things including her own battle with depression. MPR's Steven Smith talked with Kenyon in 1994 for his documentary "A Suffering Mind". During that interview, she read poem "Woodthrush."
September 17, 1997 - Most of us would be stumped if asked to quickly outline the borders of the 9th Federal Reserve District.... but not Aldo Moroni. He has just finished a huge clay model of the entire 9th district to hang in the lobby of the new Federal Reserve Building in Minneapolis. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr he wanted to create more than a map of the area... but something of the spirit of the upper Midwest. (Sound up and under... continue under entire piece) Think about it too much and the convolutions of scale of Aldo Moroni's sculpture "This River, This Place" can become mind-twisting. First of all there's the big stuff... it weighs 5,000 pounds