MPR: Crookston & North Minneapolis: A Rural, Urban Conversation

What You Thought You Said, Isn't What I Heard
A Rural -Urban Conversation
A special on Midmorning
Tuesday March 2, 1999
9 - 10 a.m. CT

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Milo Mathison , Crookston Guest.

In the second urban-rural conversation, Minnesota Public Radio and KMOJ Radio will link residents from North Minneapolis and Crookston in an on-air discussion. This is the second in a series of four broadcast collaborations between The Insight/KMOJ Public Policy Forum at Lucille's and the Minnesota Citizens' Forum.

Professor Mahmoud El-Kati - "Lucille's Kitchen" Guest

The broadcast will be hosted by MPR's Katherine Lanpher in Crookston and Al McFarlane, President and CEO of Insight News in Minneapolis at Lucille's. More than 30 citizens will join the broadcast in each location, along with community experts Professor Mahmoud El-Kati of Macalester at Lucille's and Milo Mathison in Crookston. Guests include Sarah Lagos of St. Paul and Carolyn Weber of Crookston. Lagos and Weber met via video teleconference at the last Crookston/Lucille's broadcast on Feb. 9. Their passionate and articulate discussion is symbolic of the communication gaps and issues facing the larger community.

The Minnesota Citizens' Forum is a collaboration between MPR, The Star Tribune, KTCA-TV to bring citizens together to discuss current events and community issues. The Crookston/Lucille's Kitchen: A Rural Urban Conversation is a joint effort between The Minnesota Citizens' Forum and the established Insight/KMOJ Public Policy Forum to elevate this dual community discussion to a statewide audience.

The Insight/KMOJ Public Policy Forum at Lucille's began in 1997, as a chance for members of the community to bring their issues and concerns to the editorial staff of Insight News. Conversations, held over plates of eggs and grits, provided Insight writers with feedback, story ideas and valuable connections. Since its inception The Forum has consistently connected the community with politicians and pundits, scholars and spiritual leaders, activists and artist.

The Forum's weekly meetings are broadcast on KMOJ at 89.9 FM and on the Internet at the KMOJ Web site.

Crookston was the first area in the state to be hit by the latest farm crisis. The current farm crisis is a result of a combination of damage from the Red River Flood, wheat scab fungus and unprecedented low crop prices.

" Nothing we do will change other people or the way they look at us; that is impossible. What we can do, and what I have done through the benefits of education and other support systems, is to change the way I look at myself; that is the only thing I can control, me, not the world. "

Carolyn Weber
Crookston

Related Links:
Insight News
KMOJ Radio
KTCA Television
Minnesota Rural Partners

Community Comparison:	Crookston	North Minneapolis
Total Population:	8119	63648
Avg. Per Capita Income:	$10,300	$10,070
% Unemployed:	8.3	11
% Percent Below Poverty Line	13.9	25

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