Thursday, January 21, 2010
Minnesota Public Radio Stories
Politics of the new Congress: What's ahead?
Congressional scholar Steven Smith discusses the impact of the election of a Republican senator from Massachusetts and today's Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance. Midday also looks at the Minnesota gubernatorial election.11:00 a.m.GuestsSteven Smith: Professor and director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy. Author of 6 books on congressional politics and he is working on a new book on party leadership in the U.S. Senate.More from MPRHealth care debate: Views from Minnesota (01/20/2010)Sarah Palin slated to campaign for Rep. Bachmann (01/20/2010)Franken reacts GOP win in Massachusetts (01/20/2010)Resources
The story of Sister Kenny
A play about Sister Kenny, the Minnesota nurse who took on the medical establishment and helped thousands of polio survivors, opens Saturday at the History Theatre in St. Paul. Midday rebroadcasts a documentary about Sister Kenny's work and legacy.12:00 p.m.More from MPRPolio infection seen in death of Minnesotan (04/14/2009)Polio book wins a Pulitzer (04/18/2006)Growing concern over polio numbers (11/01/2005)Resources
'No Jews Allowed'
Midday rebroadcasts a 1992 documentary, "No Jews Allowed," which looks back at the anti-Semitism in Minneapolis in the 1930s and 1940s. Those feelings were so strong that a prominent journalist called Minneapolis "the capital of anti-Semitism in the United States."12:30 p.m.More from MPRGunman shoots, kills, guard at Holocaust Museum (06/10/2009)Rabbi's comments about Arabs widely rebuked (06/04/2009)Holocaust-denying bishop lived in Minn. for 15 years (02/08/2009)Life as a Jewish partisan (01/16/2009)
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