Tag: people
member name: Julia Schrenkler
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October 31, 2006 10:23 AM EST --
So Brett Baldwin was talking about Butterfinger Crisp right? He went on about how absolutely delicious they are, how crispy and sweet, how those candy wizards actually perfected the Butterfinger by removing . . .
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April 16, 2007 02:39 PM EDT --
Over a thousand miles separates St. Paul, Minnesota and Blacksburg, Virginia, but the news distributes stories fast these days. From Minnesota Public Radio Gunman kills 32 at Virginia Tech shooting . . .
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June 28, 2007 12:48 PM EDT --
Of course the debate is never over, this is politics after all. From the Minnesota Public Radio News Website, Supporters fall 14 votes short of keeping immigration bill alive in Senate:
The Senate drove . . .
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November 10, 2006 03:06 PM EST --
Do you have a Thanksgiving or holiday meal dilemma? A turkey-related question? Curiosity about some holiday trivia?
This is your chance to ask Lynne Rossetto Kasper of The Splendid Table (and her guests) . . .
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February 05, 2007 11:31 AM EST --
From the MPR Collection Life by Design:
"The word 'design' used to be relegated to the conversations of academics and engineers, but now it pops up in housekeeping magazines and department . . .
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February 13, 2007 11:35 AM EST --
From Minnesota Public Radio News feature Should Minnesota mandate cancer vaccine?:
Lawmakers at the state Capitol are debating whether to require 12-year-old girls to get a vaccine that prevents some . . .
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May 24, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
In the latest "What are you reading?" discussion I noticed a few people mentioned reading aloud, myself included. It made me wonder how many people read aloud and how they do it.
Despite . . .
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July 23, 2007 10:10 AM EDT --
From MPR's Midmorning July 23, 2007, The emotional voter:
Brain research shows that when it comes to politics, people make decisions based on emotion rather than reason. In a new book, one psychologist . . .
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July 24, 2007 10:19 AM EDT --
From MPR's Midmorning July 24, 2007, The meaning of courage:
Midmorning examines a concept that puzzled ancient Greek philosophers: defining the meaning of courage.
A perpetually interesting topic, . . .
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August 06, 2007 02:58 PM EDT --
What do you have planned for 2007's National Night Out? Got any good games planned? Have some winning recipes at your fingertips?
My neighborhood didn't convene, so I think I'll have to whip . . .
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September 20, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
Well, it has been a quiet week in mine. The neighbors are visible more, doing their various lawn tending chores and waving from their work with rakes, and brooms. Our neighbor to the north has been out . . .
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April 23, 2007 08:52 AM EDT --
Recently both Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty asserted that today's high schools are obsolete.
Minnesota Public Radio News considers the premise in Special report: Is . . .
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December 12, 2006 09:20 AM EST --
Before you think of this as the boring, requisite gadgets-as-presents discussion that happens every year at the holidays, let me say this:
I don't like giving gadgets as presents.
Really! First of . . .
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December 18, 2006 08:50 AM EST --
Hello folks. Nothing like a little tea and some news. First things that caught my eye today:
Jets soar, Vikings crash That's got to sting. The article helpfully points out "Both the Vikings . . .
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December 19, 2006 11:21 AM EST --
In Games people play, Minnesota Public Radio's Nikki Tundel does it again. She reports on the increasing sales of board games and the changing nature of board games:
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Payday
The Game of Life . . .
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April 13, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
Bear with me. While looking at Minnesota Public Radio's interactive map of regional casualties from the war in Iraq, I had to pause. Each person has a story, and each story is a point in the map, showing . . .
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June 29, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
For those of us who do not make a living from producing art but rather enjoy art itself, where do we turn for arts and culture coverage in the news?
Regional cultural coverage cutbacks hit the Minneapolis . . .
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May 21, 2007 11:29 AM EDT --
MPR's series "Death Becomes Us" has me wondering how you deal with death and remember your dead friends and family. From the project:
Throughout history, civilizations have developed ways . . .
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July 30, 2007 09:00 AM EDT --
Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning takes on a topic Gather members might find compelling in Good blog, bad blog:
One digital media critic claims that user-generated content from bloggers and citizen . . .
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January 10, 2007 11:50 AM EST --
Here are some of the latest MPR blog updates that caught my eye:
Future Tense reporter and wavLength author Jon Gordon survives some inadvertent slapstick and shares how he almost disrupted Jobs' . . .
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