Friday In Depth: December 28, 2012
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Friday Roundtable: A review of 2012 media coverage
This week on the Friday Roundtable, our panelists will take a look at the big news stories of 2012, and how the media fared in covering those stories.
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Skipping college to succeed
Holding up the examples of Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, some soon-to-be college students are skipping the traditional higher education path. What do some of these higher education alternatives look like?
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Ask a Vet: Veterinarian Justine Lee takes your questions
Veterinarian Justine Lee will join us again to take calls from listeners on all their animal-related questions.
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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.” Read more → -
Science Night Minnesota
May 23, 2013, 15:05 PM in Science Tens of thousands of people around the world have said they want to go to Mars, even if it means they will never return to Earth. Dozens of them were in the crowd Tuesday night at the Fitzgerald Theater for Science Night Minnesota — Mission to Mars. Read about Science Night. -
Field notes: How a school bus became a house
May 23, 2013, 12:05 PM in Field Notes When Adam Marcus told his graduate students to do something “full-scale” for their final project, he didn’t think the semester would end with a school bus-house hybrid parked behind Rapson Hall. “I said, ‘We’re going to do full scale,’” said Marcus, a University of Minnesota Architecture School design fellow. “And Hank said, ‘I’m gonna buy Read more → -
Three perspectives on bridging the marriage opinion gap
May 17, 2013, 09:05 AM in Politics & Government Now that Gov. Mark Dayton has signed the same-sex marriage bill into law, we asked the participants on this week's Roundtable for advice on how to bridge gaps between Minnesotans who support same-sex marriage and those who oppose it. Jim Wallis, author of "On God's Side," thinks we are on the cusp of a nationwide Read more →
Spotlight topics on The Daily Circuit
News & Trends
- How a school bus became a house for U of M student
- Looking into the legal questions that could emerge from fatal rock slide
- Tornado recovery can lead to a bright future, towns show
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Politics & Government
- A look back at higher ed's successful year at the Legislature
- Millennials may be growing fed up with politics, period
- The clock counts down to the Legislature's close
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Science
- What if the world has an endless supply of oil?
- Science Night crowd heads to Mars by way of St. Paul
- Monkeys or humans, it's the young who go first
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Arts & Culture
- In 'The Yellow Birds,' veteran highlights emotional hardships of Iraq war
- Are blockbusters hurting the art of movies?
- Did you see 'Saw'? Horror films and why we like them
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Health & Medicine
- Listeners, readers tell the breast cancer story
- U of M set to enact smoking ban for Twin Cities campus
- Accessing new health exchanges in Minnesota's tribal nations
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Education
- A look back at higher ed's successful year at the Legislature
- Let's learn the lessons of education reform at last, author says
- Legislature approves investment in all-day kindergarten
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Economy, Business & Jobs
- Small-business owners stand up for voice in political debate
- NY attorney general threatens to sue Wells Fargo, Bank of America
- US auto industry is no longer all about the Big 3
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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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