Veda Ponikvar

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• Voices of Minnesota - Veda Ponikvar, Iron Range newspaper Editor of Chisolm Free Press (Pt. 1)

  On today's Voices of Minnesota, we'll hear from newspaper editor and publisher Veda Ponikvar. On Minnesota's Iron Range, everybody knows the name Veda Ponikvar. She has been the editor of the Chisholm Free Press for nearly fifty years. She's also been involved in just about every democratic political campaign, and counted among her friends congressman John Blatnick from the 8th district and senators Hubert Humphrey, and Eugene McCarthy. She has watched the Iron Range towns boom and bust, and she has championed countless projects to try to keep the Range on its feet -- projects such as Iron World, the creation of the Bounday Waters Canoe Area, and, more recently, the Northwest Airlines Reservation Center in Chisholm.

  Apr. 22, 199613 minSave
• Voices of Minnesota: Veda Ponikvar, Iron Range newspaper editor of Chisolm Free Press - part 2

  A Voices of Minnesota segment feature. MPR’s Catherine Winter speaks with Veda Ponikvar, Iron Range newspaper editor of Chisolm Free Press.  Ponikvar talks of the history and economy of Iron Range, and selling of the newspaper. This is part 2 of discussion.

  Apr. 22, 19969 minSave
• Balance of Power, part 1 - Metropolitan shift

  As part of a Mainstreet Radio project, Midday broadcasts from Das Wurst Haus in Lanesboro, Minnesota to focus on the changing power in the state. For the first time, a majority of seats at the State Capitol come from metropolitan area.

  Nov. 10, 199296 minSave
• Power shift in the Iron Range

  Mainstreet Radio’s Rachel Reabe reports on the economic and political changes taking place on the Iron Range due to a shrinking population. The region’s legislative delegation has fallen from nine to six in the upcoming session.

  Nov. 10, 19925 minSave