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Minnesota entered statehood with an economic whimper

Minnesota entered statehood with an economic whimper

Our current mortgage meltdown crisis is a modern day version of a spectacular collapse 150 years ago.
by Dan Olson

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Split Rock gets a facelift

Split Rock gets a facelift

Split Rock Lighthouse has withstood everything Lake Superior could throw at it for almost a century. Now, just short of the landmark's centennial, this popular North Shore attraction is getting a badly needed facelift.
by Bob Kelleher

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Transcript of The Vietnam Tapes

Transcript of The Vietnam Tapes

To mark the Independence Day holiday, we're going to visit the front lines, and the home front, to tell the story of a young kid from Willmar who went to war in Vietnam.
by Sasha Aslanian and Gary Eichten

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The Vietnam Tapes: Letters from a Willmar soldier

The Vietnam Tapes: Letters from a Willmar soldier

The Vietnam Tapes is a special program featuring audio letters from the Vietnam War. Dan Kleven of Willmar, Minn., spent 11 months in combat in Vietnam in 1970. He recorded cassette tapes in the field and sent them back to his family.

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Reporter's notebook: Tapes take us inside history

Reporter's notebook: Tapes take us inside history

American RadioWorks producer Sasha Aslanian explains how she came across Dan Kleven's audio tapes from Vietnam, and why the story told on those tapes is so compelling.
by Sasha Aslanian

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Weisman exhibit features New Deal art

Weisman exhibit features New Deal art

Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt launched the New Deal. It was a massive federal relief effort intended to improve the economy and provide employment during the Great Depression. A new exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis features art from that program.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Leonid Hurwicz, oldest Nobel winner, dies

Leonid Hurwicz, oldest Nobel winner, dies

Hurwicz, 90, shared the 2007 Nobel economics prize with two other Americans for developing a theory that helps explain how buyers and sellers can maximize their gains from transactions. He was retired from the University of Minnesota.

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Sisters act

Sisters act

Minnesota wouldn't be what it is today without the help of a small, but dedicated group of nuns.
by Nikki Tundel

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Forty years of the Electric Fetus

Forty years of the Electric Fetus

This Minneapolis music store has lots of goals. Selling music is only one of them.
by Nikki Tundel

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Two teens retrace Sevareid's canoe voyage

Two teens retrace Sevareid's canoe voyage

Two teenagers from Chaska have completed a canoe trip from Fort Snelling to Hudson Bay, retracing the route that journalist Eric Sevareid took in 1930.

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