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Want Fantastic Negrito's album RIGHT NOW! He's great. Listen here. ow.ly/IW0f9by Kerri Miller via twitter 2/12/2015 1:01:05 PM -
This is something. Egyptian band whiffs Russian nat'l anthem in front of Putin: youtube.com/watch?v=0yGJYr…by Tom Weber via twitter edited by Michael Olson, MPR News 2/12/2015 8:06:24 PM -
If you love to Roam&Read...you might like this. All about literature & travel & the sublime act of reading. ow.ly/IYdOSby Kerri Miller via twitter 2/13/2015 2:45:29 AM
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NEW: @NYTimes media columnist David Carr (also a MN native & #UMN grad) dead at 58: nytimes.com/2015/02/13/bus… http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9sfyk2CUAAb3YH.jpg
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General Mills says Cheerios will soon be gluten-free: mprnews.org/story/2015/02/…by Tom Weber via twitter 2/13/2015 12:04:38 PM
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At 11 on @DailyCircuit: GovWalker proposes big cuts but also more autonomy for UW. Good trade? mprnews.org/story/2015/02/… http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9vNLkACEAAnNuG.png
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UW- Madison Chancellor says layoffs resulting from Gov. Walker's budget cuts could happen as soon as April --->weau.com/a?a=291650331by WEAU 13 News via twitter 2/13/2015 5:17:50 PM -
Walker's office says cover funding cuts with cash reserves; UW says that may be part of it, but it's not that simple jsonl.in/IWyHsby Journal Sentinel via twitter 2/13/2015 5:18:03 PM -
The high cost of higher ed
"Research universities are expensive. It is expensive to recruit people who can create knowledge that can also dispense it." -- Mark Yudof: Professor of law, University of California Berkeley School of Law; former president of the University of Minnesota -
Producer notes
Plans subject to change before Monday's broadcast.
Monday:
9:00 State of The Re:Union - “The Power of African-American Art”
Program notes: "From a poem celebrating Nina Simone and her powerful voice for social change, to the story of the surprising event that sparked the hip-hop cultural revolution, this State of the Re:Union special provides a rich hour of art as a window into African-American history, and how communities have been transformed by it."
10:00 The Frame (a new arts and culture program produced by our friends at KPCC).
Program notes: “This program focuses on this year’s upcoming Oscar awards, featuring interviews with Benedict Cumberbatch, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Richard Linklater and others.”
11:00 To mark President’s Day, we’ll rebroadcast two interviews about Abraham Lincoln.
'Lincoln's Boys:' The men behind the president's image
MPR NEWS PRESENTS
David Von Drehle, “Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year.” (Chautauqua Lecture)
Todd Brewster on 'Lincoln's Gamble' for emancipation
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U.S. Steel fights new environmental standards for MN mine: mprnews.org/story/2015/02/… (via @tomscheck) http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B99vR0EIMAATH5z.png
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What to call a doubter of climate change? Denier? Skeptic? nytimes.com/2015/02/17/sci… (via @nytimes) http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B99v0y-IgAAU5iG.jpg
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Wait til you see who is coming for our brand new spring season of book events. Announcement coming Wed at 9:45.by Kerri Miller via twitter 2/16/2015 3:02:05 PM
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Somehow missed this series of quarters being minted: Effigy Mounds in '16; Voyageurs NP & Apostle Islands in '18: usmint.gov/mint_programs/…by Tom Weber via twitter 2/16/2015 3:34:45 PM
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Train carrying NoDak crude derails in W. Virginia: Fires, oil tanker into river: news.yahoo.com/west-virginia-… (via @AP) http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-Cz2oKCAAAf_V3.jpg
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Producer notes
Guests subject to change before broadcast
9:00 Tom Crann hosts a discussion about ISIS
After more than six months of defensive airstrikes against the Islamic State, President Obama asked Congress Wednesday (Feb 11) for the power of military action against IS.
Guest 1 - Stephen Biddle, CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy and the author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
Guest 2 - Steven Simon, Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute
10:00 Tom Crann interviews a war photographer
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario has built a career traveling through some of the most dangerous parts of the world - covering the Middle East and Africa, active war zones and the after effects of combat. Her new memoir talks about making it as a woman in a male-dominated field and the importance of remembering the humans in front of the camera.
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who regularly photographs for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. Her new book is "It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War."
11:00 The Mayors
Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman join Tom Weber in the studio to talk about the present and future of Minnesota's two largest cities. They'll cover budget issues, policing, public transit, and a wide range of other issues facing the cities. They’ll also take questions from listeners. -
NEW: Guthrie Theater names Joseph Haj new artistic director: mprnews.org/story/2015/02/…by Tom Weber via twitter 2/17/2015 4:17:47 PM
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MORE: Guthrie says new director, Joseph Haj, is 51 & one of the few Arab-American artistic directors in US: mprnews.org/story/2015/02/…by Tom Weber via twitter 2/17/2015 4:27:58 PM
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John Oliver wants #JeffWeCan, the diseased lung, to be new logo of Philip Morris: latimes.com/entertainment/… http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-E9JXbCMAAMTP3.jpg
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Producer notes for Wednesday, Feb. 18
9 a.m. - Girls of color and school discipline
A new study from Columbia University shows that young girls of color face harsher measures of discipline than their peers.
We often hear about the racial disparities in discipline when it comes to males. Young black men are suspended three times more often than their white counterparts. Data from the Department of Education shows that black girls are six times more likely to be suspended than their white peers. On today’s show we’re going to look into the intersection of race, gender and the role that each play in punishment.
Guests: Lance Hannon, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Villanova University; Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at Columbia University and
9:45 a.m. - Green investing
Does “green” investing really do anything for the climate? Is it more than a vote for values we agree with? Meir Statman has compared how “socially responsible investments” compare to index funds and other investments. He joins Kerri Miller to discuss the options for investing in climate-friendly companies and what people can realistically hope to achieve.
Guest: Meir Statman, Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University
10 a.m. - Michael Booth and The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Quote from his NPR interview about what people get for Denmark’s top tax rate in the world: “What you get is free education, very cheap pre-school care, functioning public transports, a free health service - all the things that many Americans dream of. Now the big question is: You're paying the highest taxes in the world, is the education system the best in the world? Are the hospitals the best in the world? No, they're not.”
10:45 a.m. - Screen Time
Oscars preview
11 a.m. – Value of law school
Facing stiff competition and declining enrollment, two of Minnesota’s law schools plan to become one. Hamline University and William Mitchell College of Law announced last week that they will merge their law programs.
The announcement comes at a time when the number of first-year law students is at its lowest point nationwide since 1973.
Is law school still worth it? What are law schools doing to remain relevant? And what is the future of legal education?
Guests: Eric Janus - President and Dean, William Mitchell School of Law; Kyle McEntee, co-founder and executive director of Law School Transparency.11:45 a.m. - Hockey Movie
We're coming up on the 35th anniversary (Feb 22) of the game that became known as the “Miracle on Ice.”
The U.S. Olympic men's hockey team was made up of amateurs and college athletes. It included more players from Minnesota than any other state and was coached by Minnesota's Herb Brooks. That team defeated a feared and storied Red Army Soviet national team that had won gold at six of the previous seven Olympics.
What became of the Russians on the team that lost that game and didn't even medal in the Olympics that year? That question is answered in a gripping new documentary called "Red Army."
Guest: Gabe Polsky, writer/director/producer of the film Red Army
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Report: Girls of Color Disciplined Much More Harshly in School Than White Girls: theroot.com/articles/news/… via @TheRoot http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-ITXpXCEAAC-x9.png
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RT @SDomenie: How anti-vaccine movement sounds to autistic community mprnews.org/story/2015/02/… The anti-vaxxer movement is highly ableist.by On MPR News via twitter 2/18/2015 1:42:16 PM
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Here is the Minneapolis School District agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights to deal with inequitable suspensions.
The goal of the District is to ensure that all District students are provided schools that are
safe and create an environment conducive to learning. The fair and appropriate
implementation of student discipline policies and procedures that are grounded in
evidence-based research is one means of advancing this objective. Therefore, the District
is committed to ensuring that, to the maximum extent possible, its student discipline
policies and procedures are designed and implemented in such a way as to ensure that
disciplinary sanctions do not include the loss of educational instruction time for any
students, except in those cases where it is necessary to ensure the immediate safety of
students and staff or when it is the only means of ensuring that student misbehavior does
not substantially interfere with the delivery of educational instruction to others. As
described in more detail below, the District is committed to working with students who
exhibit behavior problems to ensure that the students remain engaged in the District’s
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One mother's story: "My son has been suspended five times. He's 3." wapo.st/1lAdB9p http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-IxTbuCYAAkkgn.jpg
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Coming up next: Green investing. Is it a good investment? Meir Statman gives us his view.
His an excerpt from an interview with him from the Wealthfront blog:Many studies, including my own, found that the returns of active socially responsible mutual funds are similar to the returns of active conventional funds. But the returns of active funds, both socially responsible and conventional are lower than the returns of index funds, both socially responsible and conventional.
Socially responsible index funds tend to be the equivalent of ready-made suits. They usually exclude stocks of tobacco and gun manufacturers and favor stocks of companies with good employee relations and good environmental records. Some socially responsible investors, however, want the equivalent of custom-made suits, such as one that focuses entirely on environmental issues or one that is consistent with Catholic doctrine. Custom-made funds, like custom-made suits are more expensive, detracting from returns.
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Is green investing a fruitful idea? Listen now: live.mprnews.org/Event/onmprnewsby On MPR News via twitter 2/18/2015 3:44:15 PM
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Are Danes Really That Happy? The Myth Of The Scandinavian Utopia n.pr/1BAEjX4 Via @nprbooks:by On MPR News via twitter 2/18/2015 4:16:14 PM
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Michael Booth on NPR:On whether Danes are satisfied with the status quo:Actually, that's the perfect word for the Danes. You may have heard they're supposed to be the happiest people in the world, and they have regularly topped these happiness rankings. [But] they haven't, actually, in the last few years. They've dropped dramatically in line with their economy. So I'm afraid [the] side message here is: Money does make you happy. But I've spoken to some of these people who are behind these ranking lists and they secretly admit it's not about happiness, but they just use the word "happy" to grab the headlines. It's really about ... satisfaction and contentedness, and the Danes are massively content.
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Scandinavian Lutherans valued education for both men and women. Often in a small Minnesota town there was a doctor and a Lutheran pastor, some normal-school trained teachers who encouraged education as the way to a better life, preferably a good Lutheran college. Also, I found a document from the Norwegian Lutheran Church from the late 40's that said that the best Lutheran evangelism practice was to put resources toward church choirs. If a church has a good choir, we feel successful.
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At 11 on @MPRnews: What must law schools do to stem the decline in enrollment? live.mprnews.org/Event/onmprnewsby Tom Weber via twitter 2/18/2015 4:30:01 PM
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TV show that @kerrimpr loves: 'Borgen'. Called "Denmark's 'West Wing' (But Even Better)" by John Powers: n.pr/MrA4KOby On MPR News via twitter 2/18/2015 4:37:34 PM
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