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Midmorning
Midmorning
Archive for March 21 - 25, 2005
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Monday, March 21, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Rolling the dice on gambling
Legislators are being bombarded with gambling proposals this session. But the government's involvement in gambling is not a new thing. Midmorning takes a look at the history of state-sponsored gambling.
Guests:
Bill Thompson, professor of public administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of numerous books on gambling including Gambling in America: An Encyclopedia. Michael Khoo, Minnesota Public Radio political reporter.

Related Links:
Document MPR: Pawlenty reaches casino deal
Document MPR: State-tribal casino plan
Document MPR: Pawlenty's budget plan relies on new casino
Document MPR: Gambling report
Document Web Resource: Bill Thompson's Web site
Document Web Resource: Minnesota Issues: Gambling
Document Web Resource: U.S. Gambling Laws
Document Web Resource: History of Gambling
Document Web Resource: Costs and Benefits of Gambling
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Frank Delaney's Ireland
A new novel by one of the United Kingdom's most beloved broadcasters tells Ireland's history from prehistoric times to the country's modern day struggle for independence through the narrative of a wandering storyteller.
Guests:
Frank Delaney, former BBC reporter and author of Ireland: A Novel.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Frank Delaney's bio
Document Web Resource: NPR: Frank Delaney
Document Web Resource: Ireland's History in Maps
Document Web Resource: Events in Irish History
Document Web Resource: History of Ireland
Document Web Resource: Government of Ireland Web site
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Worst school shooting since Columbine
A Minnesota teenager fatally shot a teacher, a school security guard and five other students at Red Lake High before killing himself. Governor Pawlenty is offering the support of state government to Red Lake tribal members who are grieving after the deadly school shootings.

Guests:
(Photo courtesy of Red Lake Net News)

Related Links:
Document MPR: Troubled teen kills nine
Document MPR: Cold Spring School Shooting
Document Web Resource: Red Lake Nation
Document Web Resource: School Violence
Document Web Resource: Challenge of School Violence
Document Web Resource: Understanding School Violence
Document Web Resource: Frontline: School Violence
Document Web Resource: Campaign to Prevent School Violence
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio The brain and beyond
A scientist who has spent his life studying the way the brain works talks about why so much about the most complex organ in the body remains unknown.
Guests:
Apostolos Georgopoulos, director of the Brain Sciences Center at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis. He's also the director of the Cognitive Sciences Center at the University of Minnesota.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: About Apostolos Georgopoulos
Document Web Resource: The Whole Brain Atlas
Document Web Resource: Brain: A Journal of Neurology
Document Web Resource: The Brain Research Institute
Document Web Resource: The Human Brain
Document Web Resource: Inside the Teenage Brain
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Ten dead in shooting spree
Minnesota's Red Lake Indian Reservation is the site of the nation's worst school shooting since the rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999. Midmorning examines the roots and repercussions of deadly shootings in schools.

Guests:
Bill Bond, former principal at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, where a student shot eight people and killed three in 1997. Bond is now resident practitioner for safe schools at the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Katherine Newman, author of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings. She is a professor of sociology at Princeton. (Photo courtesy of Red Lake Net News)

Related Links:
Document Recounting the horror
Document Red Lake stunned by shooting
Document Troubled teen kills nine
Document Cold Spring School Shooting
Document Web Resource: About Bill Bond
Document Web Resource: About Katherine Newman
Document Web Resource: Understanding School Violence
Document Web Resource: The Challenge of School Violence
Document Web Resource: Campaign to Prevent School Violence
Document Web Resource: Red Lake Nation
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Economists say deficit is a bigger risk than terrorism
A new report says the budget deficit has overtaken terrorism as the greatest short-term risk to the U.S. economy. Midmorning discusses the state of the deficit and explores its impact on economic stability.

Guests:
David Wyss, chief economist with Standard and Poor's. Corey Davison, director of legislative affairs at the Concord Coalition.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Standard and Poor's
Document Web Resource: The Concord Coalition
Document Web Resource: National Debt Clock
Document Web Resource: DNC: Budget Disaster
Document Web Resource: Does the deficit matter?
Document Web Resource: White House: Economy
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio The future of oil
Oil prices have climbed almost 50 percent in the past year and some experts say the world's oil supply is reaching its peak production. Midmorning discusses the status of the Earth's oil reserves.

Guests:
Doug MacIntyre, senior analyst with the Energy Information Administration. Ken Deffeyes, geologist at Princeton University. Thomas Ahlbrandt, world energy project chief at the U.S. Geological Survey.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Energy Information Administration
Document Web Resource: U.S. Geological Survey
Document Web Resource: Oil.com
Document Web Resource: PeakOil.org
Document Web Resource: The White House: Energy
Document Web Resource: The Future of Oil
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio The state of sexual harassment
A Hollywood movie is being made about the landmark sexual harassment suit filed by 15 Minnesota women who worked at Eveleth Mines. The case, certified in 1991 as the country's first hostile environment class-action suit, brought to light a string of crude and humiliating incidents in the workplace.
Guests:
Paul Sprenger, lead attorney on the Minnesota class-action suit. He spent more than a decade fighting the defendants. Miranda McGowan, associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota.

Related Links:
Document MPR: Movie stirs memories
Document Web Resource: Lois Jenson v Eveleth Taconite Co.
Document Web Resource: Sprenger and Lang
Document Web Resource: About Miranda McGowan
Document Web Resource: Legal Momentum
Document Web Resource: Information on Sexual Harassment
Document Web Resource: Gender Harassment
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Friday, March 25, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Child poverty rises in the world's richest countries
The United States has one of the highest rates of child poverty among the world's wealthiest nations. Nearly one in five American children lives below the poverty line. Midmorning's guests say growing up poor puts children at risk intellectually, emotionally and physically.

Guests:
Dr. Jane Knitzer, a psychologist and the director of the National Center for Children in Poverty. She is also a clinical professor of population and family health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Cathy Jordan, executive director of the Children, Youth, and Family Consortium and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota.

Related Links:
Document MPR: Poverty in Minnesota
Document Web Resource: National Center for Children in Poverty
Document Web Resource: Children, Youth, and Family Consortium
Document Web Resource: Children's Defense Fund
Document Web Resource: Child Poverty in Rich Nations
Document Web Resource: The Forgotten Fourteen Million
Document Web Resource: Impact of Childhood Poverty
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio State of the Arts
Minnesota Public Radio's arts show discusses the cost of ticket prices for arts events. The program also showcases the cacophonous sounds of Savage Aural Hotbed.
Related Links:
Document Web Resource: State of the Arts
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