October 17, 2005 - The late playwright August Wilson now has a theater named after him on Broadway in New York City. Wilson lived in St. Paul during the 90s when he wrote many of his most famous plays. He died of liver cancer on October 2nd at the age of 60. The August Wilson Theater is the first on the Great White Way to be named after an African-American.
September 13, 2005 - MPR’s Bob kelleher reports that one of the hunters who survived a shooting in Wisconsin's woods last fall has testified in the murder trial of Chai Vang. Vang is the 36-year old St. Paul man charged with shooting six deer hunters to death, and wounding two others. The shooting happened after Vang was found in a deer stand on private property.
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September 28, 2004 - All Thing’s Considered’s David Molpus interviews Pat Harvey, St. Paul School District Superintendent, about incoming Hmong students. School officials are asking the state for more time to enroll new Hmong students coming from a refugee camp in Thailand.
August 17, 2004 - Many products live or die by word of mouth, but marketers have never been able to fully measure what the public thinks outside of limited focus groups and surveys. Increasingly, they're turning to Weblogs, online discussion groups and product review sites to hear what consumers are saying. One of the companies they hire for such research is BuzzMetrics , which counts dozens of Fortune 500 corporations among its clients. This week the company released a study which monitored online consumer discussions about the dangers of trans-fat in foods. BuzzMetrics says those discussions are leading the packaged food industry to change the way they manufacture and market food.
February 6, 2004 - MPR Classical Music host Tom Crann talks with Dale Warland about the song "Walden Revisited" from the CD "Walden Pond" by the Dale Warland Singers being nominated for a Grammy in the Best Choral Performance category.
January 9, 2004 - A Macalester College professor who wrote a book about a 17th Century King in India is now worried about his collegues there who are being harrassed for helping him write the book. Professor Jim Laine wrote about an Indian King named Shivaji who established a Hindu Kingdom in the city of Pune in 1674. The Kingdom was located between two Muslim Kingdoms and Shivaji became a symbol of Hindu independence. Earlier this week, Hindu extremists in Pune rioted at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute where Laine did much of his research and some of those he acknowledged in the book for helping him have been subject to personal attacks. Joining us on the line is Macalester professor Jim Laine.
January 9, 2004 - A survey of transplanted workers in Minnesota conducted on behalf of the Minnesota Employee Relocation Council finds that the state is not a very welcome place for newcomers. That's the subject of an article this week in The Business Journal. Reporter Mark Reilly wrote the article, and he's come by the studio this morning.
December 26, 2003 - The Greater Minneapolis Convention Center and Visitor's Association is developing a plan to have a major new hotel constructed in Downtown Minneapolis. It would be a 1200 room hotel built near the Minneapolis Cinvention Center. Reporter Scott Smith wote about the project in this week's edition of The Business Journal, and he joins us in studio.
December 19, 2003 - Three children's hospitals in the Twin Cities may consolidate into one, world-class facility if officials at the three organizations can work out a deal. Scott Smith joins Minnesota Public Radio to talk more on the subject.