Friday In Depth: August 3, 2012
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Roundtable: Best Buy, Jonah Lehrer, Olympics
This week on the Friday Roundtable, our panelists will discuss Best Buy founder Richard Schulze's plan to buy back the company, Jonah Lehrer's resignation from The New Yorker after publishing fake Bob Dylan quotes and the Olympics.
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Will U.S. job numbers affect presidential election outcome?
The latest jobs report shows U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July. President Obama and Mitt Romney are sure to spin the numbers in their favor in upcoming speeches. How much do the jobs numbers really matter for the results of an election?
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Lynne Rossetto Kasper on summer grilling, key ingredients
The Splendid Table host Lynne Rossetto Kasper is joining The Daily Circuit Friday to discuss all things grilling. She's out with a new book, "A Summertime Grilling Guide" and has her ongoing Key 3 series.
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Other features
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Child sex trafficking and the future of Backpage.com
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How will the drought impact the American economy?
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The Daily Circuit Blog
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Op-ed pick: The Senate’s guest worker program will provide a flexible workforce
June 13, 2013, 16:06 PM in Economy, Business & Jobs "The size of the guest-worker program is designed to adjust automatically in response to changing U.S. labor needs, growing in good years when the economy needs more foreign workers and shrinking when more Americans are out of work." -
3 things to buy at the farmers market this weekend
June 7, 2013, 13:06 PM in News & Trends After we taped the Friday Roundtable, I asked the panelists what we should pick up at the farmer’s market this weekend. Stephanie Meyer recommends morels. Amy Thielen says to buy dandelion greens if you can find them. Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl’s a fan of rhubarb: Here’s what you can do with rhubarb. I like to cook… -
Exploring the science of taste over a nice French meal
May 30, 2013, 12:05 PM in Science The science of taste (and smells) is the subject of the 11:00 a.m. hour on The Daily Circuit on Thursday, May 30. Kerri Miller talks with Stuart Firestein, who chairs the biology sciences department at Columbia University. Firestein is participating in “The Taste of Science,” an event at this year’s World Science Festival in New… -
Could Julie Rosen challenge Dayton? Roundtable members think so
May 24, 2013, 10:05 AM in Politics & Government “Think about how hard it would be for Dayton to run against a moderate, Republican woman. Yikes.”
Spotlight topics on The Daily Circuit
News & Trends
- Conflict between privacy rights and security is nothing new
- A look at modern masculinity
- If you carry a purse, NFL games may not be your bag
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Politics & Government
- The impact of the Roberts Court
- Writer argues for a different kind of border security
- NSA leak: Debating the balance of security, privacy
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Science
- Supreme Court decides a gene can't be patented
- Connecticut poised to enact first GMO food labeling law in US
- Scientists, philosophers debate the 'conundrum of consciousness'
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Arts & Culture
- 23 authors whose books could change your life
- Best music of the year, so far
- A remembrance of Lt. Col. Mark Weber
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Health & Medicine
- Judge's transplant order undermines fairness of organ-donor system, critics say
- It's been a lovely spring, if you're a mosquito
- Grant aims to improve heart-attack care in rural Minnesota
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Education
- Teach for America suffers a setback
- Minneapolis teacher contract talks: Not just about the money
- Study will shed light on dispute over U's administrative costs
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Economy, Business & Jobs
- In a struggling economy, rediscovering the power of thrift
- The housing rebound: Some say this time it's for real
- How your credit score can hurt your job search
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Books
Latest author interview
Anna Badkhen's latest novel weaves Afghanistan's beauty and violence
June 13, 2013, 11:20 AM
Kerri Miller's Pick of the Week
Kerri's book pick is 'The Silver Star' by Jeannette Walls
Week of June 18, 2013
By the way
The on-air team
Kerri Miller, Host
Kerri Miller joined MPR News in June 2004 as host of MPR's News' Midmorning and Talking Volumes. Before that she was an award-winning television reporter for KARE 11. She has been a radio and television news reporter since 1981.
Tom Weber, Co-Host
Tom Weber has reported on K12 education and served as a general assignment reporter since joining MPR News in 2008. He was a news anchor and reporter for KWMU in St. Louis for more than five years. His reporting has aired on national radio programs, including "Morning Edition" and "Marketplace."
Stephanie Curtis, Social media host
Stephanie Curtis has produced events, daily news shows, documentaries, conferences and call-ins for MPR News. She also was among the pioneering producers who launched The Current. You can hear her discuss movies every Thursday on The Cube Critics.
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