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As home to the well-known Swinging Bridge and located near Duluth, just off Interstate 35, Jay Cooke State Park is one of Minnesota’s favorite outdoor destinations. The River Inn, another longtime attraction at Jay Cooke, hasn’t been significantly remodeled since the 1970s. As Don Lee reports, Legacy Amendment funding has created new exhibits and other enhancements to this historic building.
A landmark Supreme Court decision protecting freedom of the press has its origins in Minnesota. In the 1920s, a Minneapolis man named Jay Near began writing articles, many of them tinged with racism and anti-Semitism, about the influence organized crime had on Twin Cities’ government and law enforcement officials. Under Minnesota’s gag law, the state shut down Near’s proposed new paper, the Saturday Press, before it could be published. Near sued. His case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1931. The court sided with Near, overturning Minnesota’s gag law, and affirming censorship to be unconstitutional in most cases. MN90 producer Marisa Helms has the story.
Chills are what can regularly happen via the warmth that KMOJ organically delivers.
In an era of media instability, Northern Community Radio is banking on the kind of sensibility found in that exchange – smart, topical, chatty – to remain vibrant in this region of blue-collar workers, cabin dwellers and outdoors enthusiasts.
