Almanac - April 13, 2007
Segments
This Week's Monologue (04/13/07)
Dominic Papatola is thinking a lot about the newspaper business these days.
Sunday's Big Troop Feed (04/13/07)
A group of St. Paul folks are hosting a dinner where nearly 12,000 Minnesota soldiers in Iraq will be linked by satellite with thousands of their family members at St. Paul's Roy Wilkins Auditorium. Event organizer John Marshall tells us how you pull off something like this.
The Pioneer Sues the Strib (04/13/07)
Par Ridder's move across the river has landed the Star Tribune in court. Jane Kirtley from the U of M School of Journalism helps us make sense of it all.
Happy Birthday, Harold (04/13/07)
Today would have been Harold Stassen's 100th Birthday. Governor Pawlenty has proclaimed it "Harold Stassen Day." With us to talk about their father's legacy are Stassen children Glen and Kathleen.
The Capitol Week that Was (04/13/07)
Mary Lahammer brings us the latest on veto threats ... gas tax proposals ... and gay marriage.
A Peculiar Imbalance (04/13/07)
That's the name of a new book by Bill Green. You may know Bill as the Superintendent of Schools in Minneapolis. But another passion in Bill's life is Minnesota's 19th-century civil rights history and that's the topic of this book recently published by the Minnesota Historical Society.
Congressional First Termers (04/13/07)
Keith Ellison and Tim Walz join us to discuss their first 100 days in Congress. Michele Bachmann agreed to be with us but had to cancel due to illness. We'll get her in the studio soon.
The Wrapup (04/13/07)
Who was that Northrop speaker? And who won the NAACP Spingarn medal in St. Paul in 1960? At the end of the show we have a treat for you ... a Jethro Burns and Chet Atkins tune from 1983.









