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Archive for March 7 - 11, 2005
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Monday, March 7, 2005
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio The many players in the gambling debate
The White Earth, Leech Lake and Red Lake Indian tribes are proposing to build a metro-area casino in partnership with the state of Minnesota. The Mall of America's owners say they'd like to expand the mall and add a gambling component, and a number of Republicans in the Legislature would like to see slot machines at Canterbury Park. Will Minnesota become a gambling mecca, or will the casino plans fizzle?
Guests:
Dan McElroy, Gov. Tim Pawlenty's chief of staff and his top negotiator on gambling issues, along with a number of other people with stakes in the gambling debate.

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Document Pawlenty, tribal leaders unveil casino proposal
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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Special prosecutors: watch dogs or witch hunts?
Scholars, journalists and pundits from across the political spectrum have called the special prosecutor law that expired in 1999 "politically corrosive" and "profoundly unwise." National Public Radio's Justice Talking series hosted this debate on the merits of the law between two people intimately familiar with presidential investigations: Clinton-era Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr and Nixon White House Counsel John Dean.
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Document Web Resource: Justice Talking
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Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Network news after Dan Rather
CBS Evening News Anchor Dan Rather makes his last broadcast on Wednesday night, 24 years to the day after he took over the chair from Walter Cronkite. The end of Rather's career was marred by the scandal surrounding a discredited report on President Bush's National Guard service. What role do the network newscasts play in the age of CNN, Fox News and the so-called blogosphere?
Guests:
Jane Kirtley, director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota, and Scott Johnson, one of the founders of the Minnesota-based Power Line blog that initially cast doubt on CBS's report.

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Document Web Resource: The Silha Center online
Document Web Resource: Dan Rather retrospective from CBS
Document Web Resource: Power Line blog
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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio The most important issues facing women
Julianne Malveaux and Deborah Perry Piscione discussed their book at the University of St. Thomas on Monday night, "Unfinished Business: A Democrat and a Republican Take on the 10 Most Important Issues Women Face."
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Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Should sports be separated from schools?
A bill before the Legislature this session would take public schools out of the sports business. For that matter it would take debate, one-act play and band competitions away from the schools and put them, along with athletics, under the control of city park and recreation departments or their equivalents. Critics worry that the bill would decrease participation in extracurricular activities, or, worse, lead kids to drop out of school.
Guests:
Rep. Mark Buesgens, R-Jordan, one of the bill's sponsors, and Lou Kanavati, an area superintendent for St. Paul schools who is on the board of the Minnesota State High School League.

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Document Web Resource: Minnesota State High School League
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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio The threat of nuclear terrorism
Former Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn speaks about the threat of nuclear terrorism live at the National Press Club in Washington. During his time in the Senate, Nunn co-authored a bill with Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., to to help Russia and the former Soviet republics secure or dismantle their weapons of mass destruction.
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Document Web Resource: The National Press Club online
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Thursday, March 10, 2005
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Should truth in taxation be "turbocharged?"
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's proposal to let taxpayers signal their satisfaction, or lack thereof, with their property taxes has begun its way through the Legislature. Under the proposal, if enough property owners complain, it would trigger a referendum that would allow voters to repeal the levy. Who should decide whether taxes go up?
Guests:
House Taxes Committee Chairman Rep. Phil Krinkie, R-Shoreview, who is sponsoring the bill, and Senate Taxes Committee Chairman Sen. Larry Pogemiller, DFL-Minneapolis.

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Document Pawlenty outlines his plans in State of the State address
Document Web Resource: Midday: Weighing different kinds of taxes
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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio NAACP's Bond wants "meaningful equality"
Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, gives a speech entitled "The Quest for Meaningful Equality" live from the Westminster Town Hall Forum in Minneapolis.
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Friday, March 11, 2005
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Mikhail Gorbachev in the Russian imagination
Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev's election as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the USSR. What impact does Gorbachev's legacy have on today's Russia and what role does he play in the Russian imagination?
Guests:
Nick Hayes, professor of history and holder of the University Chair in Critical Thinking at Saint John's University, is in Russia interviewing journalists, ordinary people, academics and political leaders for a retrospective he's writing on Gorbachev.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Reporting from Iraq: a study in contrasts
National Public Radio's Deborah Amos is recently back from Iraq and says that violence there has now surged back to the same levels as before the relatively peaceful January 30 election. In this MPR Broadcast Journalist series speech in St. Paul Thursday night, Amos said it is this contrast between hope and despair--the rise of an open society coupled with the daily threat of violence--that keeps her coming back to "the most dangerous assignment in the world."
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Document Web Resource: Deborah Amos on Midmorning
Document Web Resource: Recent NPR reports from Deborah Amos
Document Web Resource: Amos' 2003 American RadioWorks documentary: The War after the War
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