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Archive for July 11 - 15, 2005
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Monday, July 11, 2005
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Special session near an end?
Minnesota's budget negotiators struck a deal over the weekend to restart idled parts of state government and balance the books in part with a substantial increase in tobacco "fees." The Legislature passed a temporary "lights on" bill and working groups are hammering out the details of the agreement. Will the special session really end on Wednesday?
Guests:
Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson, DFL-Willmar, and House Speaker Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Clinton says Republicans are ignoring science
Though it is highly speculative this far in advance, a recent Zogby International poll shows that if Democrats had to choose right now, they'd likely nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., as their 2008 presidential candidate. Clinton avoided talking presidential politics in a speech Sunday at the Aspen Ideas Forum in Aspen, Colo., focusing her remarks on the importance of science in the global economy.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Santana and Nathan hit the All-Star stage
The Twins will be well-represented at Tuesday's All-Star Game in Detroit when pitchers Johan Santana and Joe Nathan take the field. Will they do Minnesota proud?
Guests:
Howard Sinker, who covered the Minnesota Twins for years, is the Minneapolis Star Tribune's state news and general assignment editor. (photo: Getty Images/Lisa Blumenfeld/Elsa)

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Iraqi constitution advisor says U.S. destabilizing Middle East
Noah Feldman, the New York University law professor who helped write Iraq's interim constitution, says that the United States is deliberately creating "massive instability and uncertainty wherever we can in the Middle East in the calculated hopes that what will come out on the other side will be better than what we had to begin with." Feldman spoke July 6 at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Legislature poised to boost school funds
Minnesota schools stand to get a substantial funding increase as the Legislature tries to wrap up its special session Wednesday.
Guests:
Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Shuttle launch scrubbed
Just hours before Discovery's scheduled launch Wednesday, a faulty fuel gauge on the shuttle's external tank forced NASA to call off its first shuttle launch since the 2003 Columbia disaster. Longtime public radio space reporter Pat Duggins produced a documentary on Discovery and the efforts to make it safer than Columbia, its predecessor that exploded in 2003.
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Special session finally finished
The Minnesota Legislature finally put an end to its fitful special session Wednesday evening, filling the state's budget gap in part with a robust increase in tobacco revenue. What political forces made the agreement so elusive? Will there be any political fallout from the eight-day partial government shutdown?
Guests:
Chris Gilbert, a political science professor at Gustavus Adolphus College.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio One of the highest and most beautiful voices of Minnesota
World famous genre-jumping soprano Maria Jette speaks with Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson as part of his Voices of Minnesota interview series.
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Friday, July 15, 2005
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Will legislators return to talk stadiums?
Lawmakers adjourned Wednesday evening after passing a two-year state budget, but without addressing several proposals for new sports stadiums. Gov. Tim Pawlenty held open the option of calling a second special session to consider stadium plans later in the year.
Guests:
Aron Kahn, who covers the business and politics of sports for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Jerry Bell, president of Twins Sports Inc., the holding company that owns the Twins, Richard Pfutzenreuter, the University of Minnesota's vice president and chief financial officer, stadium opponent Rep. Phil Krinkie, R-Lino Lakes, and others.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Goodall sees "reason for hope"
Celebrity primate researcher Jane Goodall says that, unfortunately, humans are probably hard-wired for violence. She has observed chimpanzees in the wild forming social groups, establishing territory, patrolling their borders and even killing intruders from other social groups. But in spite of all that, Goodall still sees a reason to hope for world peace.
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