June 26, 1997 - MPR’s John Rabe interviews Jeanne Manford, co-founder of support group organization Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Manford shares thoughts on her son and about the organization.
June 12, 1997 - SPECIAL INTRO FOR MORNING EDITION As anyone in the Red River Valley can tell you, floodwaters dredge up an awful lot of junk you might never expect. And though the flooding wasn't as severe, when the waters of the Mississippi through the Twin Cities receded, tons of garbage was left along the banks. Dozens of volunteers boarded the Harriet Bishop Riverboat yesterday (THU) to help clean up some of that trash. Minnesota Public Radio's John Rabe was on the banks in Saint Paul riverboat stopped to drop off bags of garbage. That report from Minnesota Public Radio's John Rabe. Sun 28-MAY 19:10:01 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11
June 11, 1997 - Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad has made his pitch to fellow baseball owners for permission to begin trying to sell or move the team, even as an offer to buy the team surfaced. Clark Griffith says he and other investors would offer eighty- to ninety-million dollars for the team. The Griffith group would supposedly keep the team at the Dome for the next few years. Pohlad reiterates that the team is not for sale. Acting commissioner Bud Selig tomorrow will announce the executive council's decision on pursuing relocation. In the meantime, we talked with baseball analyst Gary Gillette. Baseball analyst Garl Gillette is vice-president of Total Sports a
June 10, 1997 - The tabloids in Britain recently told how a young British exchange student essentially revived the spirit of the blitz when she volunteered during the flooding of the Red River Valley. Trouble is, the papers exaggerated a little about brave young Katie Ballinger, an 18-year old exchange student spending the school year in Baudette. --------------------------------------------------------- | D-CART ITEM: 6120 | TIME: 2:48 | OUTCUE: "...THAT WAS ENOUGH." --------------------------------------------------------- Liz Ballinger and her exchange student daughter Katie return to England next week. They're staying with Katie's host family in Baudette, Minnesota. She attended Lake of the Woods High School. Sun 28-MAY 19:11:12 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
May 23, 1997 - The Minnesota Twins play Oakland this weekend, but the real focus will be on Kirby Puckett. This weekend Twins fans will honor Puckett and the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in events culminating in the retirement of Puckett's Number 34 Sunday. But it's been said that baseball is mostly pitching, and honoring Kirby can only momentarily obscure the fact that pitching is one of the current Twins' biggest problems. And the root of it may lie in their inability to take good prospects in the minor leagues and turn them into good major leaguers pitchers ... prospects like Willie Banks, Pay Mahomes, and Scott Klingenbeck. Now, education has been one of the hottest topics of conversation in Minnesota lately, but -- when baseball analyst Kevin Hennessy and I called up former Twins great Jim Kaat -- we never expected him to say pitchers could use a little more college education. --------------------------------------------------------- | D-CART ITEM: 3559 | TIME: 4:41 | OUTCUE: "...YEAR FOR ME."
May 19, 1997 - The House and Senate are meeting at this hour, hurrying through their votes to try to finish their business before tonight's midnight deadline... but the real action at the capitol is taking place behind closed doors, where DFL leaders and the Governor's staff are struggling to figure out a compromise over K-12 education tax breaks. Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste reports.
May 15, 1997 - The next three Fridays, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is screening 23 regionally-produced films and videos in the 1997 Film and Video Showcase. This year, there were double the number of submissions from the local filmmakers. One of those is Peter Syvertsen (SEE-vert-sen), who made a 17-minute film called "26 Summer Street", based on a William Carlos Williams short story. Peter Syvertsen (SEE-vert-sen)'s "26 Summer Street" shows May 16th, in the third and final Friday night of the Walker's 1997 Film and Video Showcase. The showcase of short movies actually begins tomorrow night, and includes Chuck Smith's "Once Again", Hayden Groom's "Family Tree", and Mary Ahmann's "The Last Goodbye". Sun 28-MAY 19:29:01 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
May 9, 1997 - It's pale, it's jiggly, it's made of bean curd, and it's not the first thing to come to mind when you envision things people craft festivals around. Yet Josh Abrams, a student at Carleton College, has organized Tofu Fest tomorrow.
May 9, 1997 - Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton gives a preview of her appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Letterman brought in the mayor, Kirby Puckett, and residents of Minneapolis as part of a running thematic series on his show of highlighting various cities across the country.
May 8, 1997 - MPR’s John Rabe talks with Larry Schoenberg, son of composer son of composer Arnold Schoenberg. The two discuss Arnold Schoenberg’s evolving compositions and The Minnesota Orchestra performance of Schoenberg’s piece “Guerre-Lieder.”