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Archive for July 5 - 9, 2004
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Monday, July 5, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Coming to America
This Fourth of July weekend, we ask for MPR listeners to call in with their stories about coming to America.
Guests:
Sen. Mee Moua, who came to the U.S. from Laos in 1979 at the age of 9.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio A mighty good road
On October 15, 1852, the first train of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad traveled from Chicago to Joliet, Illinois. Two years later it would bring a delegation of East Coast journalists and dignitaries to the Mississippi River as part of the Grand Excursion to Minnesota. Over the next 50 years, as the Rock Island Line grew, it carried passengers and freight through 14 states and became part of the story of the American west. Then it inspired a song that has been passed from generation to generation. Minnesota Public Radio's Jim Bickal has traced the stories of the song and the railroad and discovered that together they tell quite a tale.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Kerry picks Edwards
John Kerry has announced that John Edwards, the freshman Senator from North Carolina, will run alongside him in his bid for the U.S. Presidency. We talk about why he chose Edwards what effect the choice might have on the presidential election.
Guests:
Political analysts Tom Horner and Bob Meek. Horner is a Republican and Meek is a Democrat.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio David Kay at the Commonwealth Club
David Kay, the former U.N. chief weapons inspector who was sent to Iraq in 2003 to find Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction arsenal, touched off a political firestorm when he later told Congress that the weapons simply were not there. "We were almost all wrong," he said. "There were no stockpiles of WMD when the U.S. went to war." Kay is now talking about other long-term dangers to national security. He spoke in June at the Commonwealth Club of California.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Does the army have enough troops?
With the Pentagon calling 5,600 honorably discharged soldiers back to duty, there have been rumblings on Web sites and op-ed pages about the return of the draft. The government denies that any such plans are in the offing, but many military experts say that the reserve system needs serious reform if it is going to effectively prosecute the War on Terrorism.
Guests:
Peter Feaver is a professor of political science and the Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Duke University. He is the co-editor of "Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security."

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Don't kill all the lawyers!
Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, spoke recently about the nobility of the legal profession at West Publishing in Eagen. SPLC is a public interest law firm that tracks white supremecist activities in the United States.
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Thursday, July 8, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Corporate ethics after Enron
Three years after the collapse of Enron, its former CEO, Kenneth Lay, has been led away in handcuffs to face charges of participating in schemes to obscure the company's financial situation. Lay maintains that he has done nothing wrong. Thirty former Enron employees have been charged since the company went belly up, but the question remains: could Enron happen again?
Guests:
David Koch is the former Chief Executive Officer of Graco, Inc. and serves on the board of directors of the Center for Ethical Business Cultures at the University of St. Thomas. Ron James is President and CEO of the CEBC.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Reshaping the Vice Presidency
Walter Mondale says that he and Jimmy Carter redefined the vice-presidency in 1977, setting a new precedent of access, influence and collaboration that has been followed by every vice president since. Mondale called himself Carter's "sideman," not just his understudy, and he hosted a discussion on the topic at Macalester College in 2002. It was part of the ongoing Mondale Lectures on Public Service. A number of people from the Carter administration participated in the conversation, among them his chief domestic policy advisor, Stuart Eizenstat.
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Friday, July 9, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Aquatic invaders
The last 200 years of commercial boat traffic have had a profound effect on the ecological makeup of the Great Lakes. One-hundred and seventy-nine non-native species have relocated to the lakes from far off ports of call, stowed away in the ballast tanks of ships, and lacking any natural predators they have thrived. As a result, the native flora and fauna have suffered. Some of this is an unavoidable consequence of globalization, but government gridlock also shares responsibility for this ecological transformation, according to a series of articles that appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Guests:
Tom Meersman, a reporter at the Star Tribune, wrote the three-part series "Invaded Waters." He was an environmental reporter at Minnesota Public Radio for many years.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Life on the Upper Mississippi
Minnesota author Patricia Hampl presents a literary view of the Upper Missippi. She reads from works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis and even Henry David Thoreau, as well as her own musings on the great river. Music by pianist and Minnesota Public Radio favorite Dan Chouinard underscores the program.
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