September 24, 2003 - A community institution on the north side of Minneapolis has turned to that community to keep it alive. Since the day it opened in 1996, Lucille's kitchen has been more than a place to get Southern soul food; it's a place to fill up on politics, music, art and neighborhood gossip. It's served as a studio for radio shows and televised town meetings, but the restaurant is having difficulty with the bread-and-butter issue of paying off the debt. Lucille Williams and her brother Henry Sullivan own Lucille's. The Shreveport natives say they learned to cook in Louisiana.
September 23, 2003 - The anguish of childhood cancer has been mitigated in recent years by advances in treatment that make many cancers completely curable. However, a study published tomorrow in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that all the news is not good when it comes to long-term prognosis for victims of childhood cancers. Forty-four percent of adult survivors cite moderate to severe problems with anxiety, pain, and mental health. The nationwide study of more than 20,000 individuals is the largest study of long-term survivors of childhood cancer ever undertaken. Les Robison is a professor of pediatrics at the Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota. He was the lead investigator for the study. He says it's important for cancer survivors to be aware of the long-term consequences of successful cancer treatment.
September 23, 2003 - The increasing ethnic diversity in Hennepin County is not reflected in the non profit boards and government advisory boards that serve the community. People of color make up only 16% of the membership of nonprofit boards; almost one-third of nonprofits have no board members of color. Those were results a survey of conducted over the summer by the YWCA of Minneapolis. The Y is initiating efforts to encourage inclusion of people of color and women on the community's decision-making bodies. Nancy Hite is the chief executive officer of the YWCA of MInneapolis. She says non profit organizations make crucial decisions and, therefore, it's important to take a look at who's in charge of them.
September 18, 2003 - A new study out of the Mayo Clinic finds broken arms are on the rise among adolescents. Researchers in Rochester say that, over the last 30 years, forearm fractures have increased 42 percent. Dr. Sundeep Khosla is the author of the study and a professor of medicine in Mayo's department of endocrinology. He says doctors had theorized that more fractures occur during adolescence because bones become more porous during growth spurts. But he says the study indicates there are a variety of reasons why fractures have increased so drastically over the last three decades.
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September 16, 2003 - All Things Considered’s David Molpus interviews Gorden Wittenmyer, who covers the Twins for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, about big series against Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox. The Twins’ chief rival for the American League Central Division crown is in town for the first game of a three-game series.
September 12, 2003 - September brings with a number of transitions, the passing of the season, the end of summer, the start of the school year. Those transitions remind commentator Hans Eisenbeis of the passage of time.
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