July 2, 2009 - MPR’s Mark Zdechilk presents the MPR Special Report “Minnesota’s Unending Senate Battle - Al Franken's Road to the Senate.” Chapters include The Campaign, The Election, and The Recount Trial.
August 31, 2008 - President Bush skips coming to St. Paul Republican National Convention for the first day of the RNC, as scheduled. He's on hurricane watch for Hurricane Gustav. He ends up doing staellite speech to the RNC on Day 2.
September 7, 2007 - Midday presents an American RadioWorks documentary, produced in association with North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, titled “Put to the Test.” The documentary follows students, teachers, and administrators from Western Guilford High School as they navigate the requirements of No Child Left Behind.
August 21, 2007 - President Bush at the TC airport on Tuesday 8/21 talking about the flood money he promised us. (Runs 2:25?)
August 8, 2007 - A week after the I-35W bridge collapsed, Midday marks the occasion with a special one-hour broadcast featuring the latest on the investigation and the stories of the survivors. MPR’s Lorna Benson provides a remembrance of the 13 victims…Sherry Engebretsen; Artemio Trinidad-Mena; Julia Blackhawk; Patrick Holmes; Peter Hausmann; Paul Eickstadt; Greg Jolstad; Scott Sathers; Christina Sacorafas; Sadiya Sahal and two-year-old daughter Hannah; Vera Peck and her 20-year-old son Richard Chit.
August 23, 2006 - American RadioWorks and Marketplace present the documentary “Rebuilding Biloxi: One Year after Katrina.” Hurricane Katrina devastated the lives of thousands of Mississippi Gulf Coast residents. Rebuilding Biloxi tells the stories of several families in the coastal community of Biloxi, Miss., and their struggle to survive and then recover from the storm.
February 2, 2006 - Bush gives speech at 3M. PresidentBush Thursday said Americans should not fear globalcompetition from rising economic powers like China and India,and called on Congress to allow more foreign workers to fillhigh-tech jobs in the United States. (In-sourcing?) In a trip to the Midwest Bush expanded on the election-yeartheme set in his State of the Union address that America mustmaintain its competitive edge in a global economy. He hasproposed a program to support research and development in newtechnologies, and improve science and math education. Bush is proposing a $5.9 billion "American CompetitivenessInitiative" that includes $1.3 billion in new federal fundingand an additional $4.6 billion in research and development taxincentives. The program aims to support science research andimprove math and science education. To fill vacant high-tech jobs in the United States, Bushcalled on Congress to lift the current limit on H-1B visas thatallow foreign workers to get jobs in the United States.
December 27, 2004 - MPR’s Mark Zdechlik prepared this documentary, looking back at Minnesota's battleground role in the 2004 race for the White House. Includes numerous interviews and speeches. Until 2004, Minnesota had largely been on the sidelines when it came to contested states in presidential elections... At least for the past couple of generations. Largely because of Minnesota's prominent national politicians, Mondale, Humphrey, McCarthy -- the state had been taken for granted by both parties as solidly Democratic when it came to presidential politics. The 2004 race proved Democrats and Republicans now view Minnesota as a state that could go either way. That's why the presidential campaigns spent so much time and money here.
August 19, 2004 - President George W. Bush is in Crawford, Texas, today, resting after a bus tour that took him through Wisconsin and Minnesota. The president made a campaign stop yesterday just across the St. Croix River in Hudson, Wisconsin, followed by a rally at the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St. Paul. He repeated many of the campaign's familiar themes on the economy and the war in Iraq. But he also opened the dialogue slightly by inviting audience members to pepper him with questions.
November 1, 2003 - The American RadioWorks documentary “Whose Vote Counts” looks at voting issues in the United States. Reports include various viewpoints on the problems and potential solutions.