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        <title>From the Archive - Minnesota Today from Minnesota Public Radio</title>
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        <description>Listen to gems from the MPR News vault. Find news reports, features and interviews from yesteryear.</description>
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            <title>1973: Defining Irish</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Eoin McKiernan talks about what it means to be Irish.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1989: the Trashmen</title>
            <description><![CDATA[More than a surfin&#039; bird.]]></description>
                                                <link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/01/31/1989-trashmen?refid=0</link>
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                                    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:10:24 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>1976: Perpich is sworn in</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Lt. Gov. Rudy Perpich gets the nod and steps into the Governor&#039;s job.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:31:11 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>1982: Metrodome deflates</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A brief history of the deflating dome.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:58:24 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>1974: Dellums on healthcare</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Ron Dellum discusses America&#039;s Socialist health care system.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:11:39 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>1987: Turkey</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Bulking up for mass production... the art of turkey breeding.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:42:44 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>2000: Winds of Hell</title>
            <description><![CDATA[1940 Armistice Day blizzard traps hunters and others around the state.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:23:20 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1990: Paul Wellstone senate bid</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Paul Wellstone is interviewed on MPR just after winning his 1990 senate bid.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:51:33 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1975: Renaissance Festival</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A look back at a look back.  Renaissance Festival 1975.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:09:40 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1987: Activists educate fairgoers about AIDS</title>
            <description><![CDATA[AIDS was a new and frightening epidemic disease when activists set up a booth at the Minnesota State Fair to educate people about the disease. This 1987 MPR report captures fairgoers&#039; reactions.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1975: State Fair food back in the day</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Nothing that starts with &quot;fried&quot; or ends in &quot;on a stick?&quot; That&#039;s crazy talk. Take a tour of the Minnesota State Fair&#039;s menu from 35 years ago in this report from the Minnesota Public Radio archives.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:23:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1975: Speed limits become a hot-button issue</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Gas prices go up, speed limits come down and people grumble all around. Check out this 1975 report from the Minnesota Public Radio archive to hear how speed limits drove an intense public debate.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:19:30 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1975: Minnesotans remember wide open spaces</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Open land isn&#039;t always easy to find these days. Minnesota may be the land of 10,000 lakes -- but there&#039;s a road or two leading almost all of them. It wasn&#039;t always that way. In this 1975 report, Minnesotans share memories of the vast countryside and hushed sounds of the prairie.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:54:25 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1975: To build or not to build the Metrodome</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Metrodome is down to one major tenant -- the Minnesota Vikings -- and even they don&#039;t want to play there anymore. As the team and the state contemplate building a new stadium, take a look back at the days when the Metrodome was still just a gleam in lawmakers&#039; eyes.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1974: Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce</title>
            <description><![CDATA[McDonalds brings competition to the kitchen. In this 1974 Minnesota Public Radio story, reporter Greg Barron tells us about a national competition to be the best McDonalds worker.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:32:14 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1990: First Avenue marks its first two decades</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The venerable music venue First Avenue celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. In this archival MPR story, First Avenue was marking its first 20 years.]]></description>
                                                <link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/07/13/first-ave-20-years?refid=0</link>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:45:09 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1981: Twins resume play after 50-day strike</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Baseball went on long hiatus in the summer of 1981. Finally, after a 50-day players union strike, games resumed in August 1981. In this archival news report, Lee Axdahl reports about the Twins getting back into action.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:19:37 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1972: Writer Brenda Ueland remembers our streetcars</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Brenda Ueland, an author and the first female reporter at the Minneapolis Tribune, recalls the days when streetcars rumbled through the Twin Cities.]]></description>
                                                <link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/06/29/mntoday-streetcar-memories?refid=0</link>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1984: Talking about a nurses strike 26 years ago</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A labor dispute between Twin Cities hospitals and nurses led to a one-day strike and the threat of a longer walkout. The animosity between the caregivers and their employers echoed a Minnesota nurses strike in 1984. In this archival audio, Curt Johnson of the Citizens League gives his thoughts about the &#039;84 strike.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1972: Love and hate for the Mary Tyler Moore show</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Minneapolis thanks the show and its star for all the free publicity they&#039;ve given Minneapolis. But the owner of Mary&#039;s fictional home offers nothing but disdain for the fans who come flocking for a glimpse.]]></description>
                                                <link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/06/24/mary-tyler-moore?refid=0</link>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:14:41 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1973: Fishin&#039; for mudcats in the Mighty Mississippi</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Fisherman Riley Haynie gives a city-slicker reporter a lesson in fishing for mudcats on the Mississippi River in St. Paul.]]></description>
                                                <link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/05/21/mntoday-mudcat?refid=0</link>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1975: Border towns celebrate a century</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The cities of Fargo-Moorhead celebrate their first hundred years as border buddies.]]></description>
                                                <link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/06/11/fargo-moorhead-centennial?refid=0</link>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1973: Breaking ground at Orchestra Hall</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A symphony brass band heralds a new home for the Minnesota Orchestra.]]></description>
                                                <link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/06/09/mn-orchestra-groundbreaking?refid=0</link>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:31:13 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>1974: Dutch elm disease hits Minnesota</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dutch elm disease fungus devastated shade trees in Minnesota in the 1970&#039;s -- much like the emerald ash borer is doing today.]]></description>
                                                <link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/22/1974-dutch-elm-disease?refid=0</link>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:00:27 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Before H1N1, we battled Shigellosis</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Long before the H1N1 outbreak dominated the news, Shigellosis flu enveloped the state.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:58:20 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Remembering the heyday of the Soo Line</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Winton Forsberg started working for the Soo Line in 1953. In this 1973 interview with Hugh Morgan, the station agent reminisces about the days of carrying passengers and connecting with people.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:57:02 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Mark Vinz writes from the heartland</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Taken from a 1973 interview, Midwest poet Mark Vinz reads &quot;Linestorm&quot; and talks about how his writing is rooted in a region.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:51:48 -0500</pubDate>
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