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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
In 1972, Helen and Russell Bryan received a tax bill in the amount of $147.95. They stubbornly refused to pay, setting off a chain of events that would land them in the US Supreme Court. Producer Allison Herrera tells us about a Minnesota case that helped Indian Nations determine their own economic future.
For most of history, the human heart was off limits to medicine. The first closed heart surgery began in the 1940’s. In the 1950’s, a pair of physicians who worked in mobile surgical units of World War II discovered that open heart surgery could be an option. Producer Allison Herrera tells us about the first …
Since the 1970’s intersections all over Minnesota use a special traffic management system developed by a local company by the name of-you guessed it-3M. Producer Allison Herrera tells us about the Opticom.
Finnish immigrants came to Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range to take jobs in the mines. Because working conditions were brutal, many went on strike 1916. The action cost them their jobs and the strikers were blacklisted. Producer Allison Herrera tells us about a special meeting place that elevated the community.
