Simply Superior

A look back at the week’s news highlights with The Star Tribune’s Brooks Johnson and Wisconsin Public Radio reporter Danielle Kaeding.

A new exhibit at the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, Ala. has ties to the Northland. A restored bus – the same model as the one that was firebombed in Anniston, Ala., during the Freedom Rides on May 14, 1961 – was unveiled last week in commemoration of the pivotal Civil Rights Movement event. The bus had been donated to the Alabama museum by the Greyhound Bus Museum in Hibbing, Minn., whose volunteer bus enthusiasts searched arduously to find an exact match.

A look back at the week’s news highlights with The Star Tribune’s Brooks Johnson and Wisconsin Public Radio reporter Danielle Kaeding.

The Ideas Network and WPR's regional bureaus invite sports fans to tune in for “Extra Innings,” a celebration of north central Wisconsin’s hometown baseball teams.

A look back at the week’s news highlights with The Star Tribune’s Brooks Johnson and Wisconsin Public Radio reporter Danielle Kaeding.

President George W. Bush has released a new book called “Out of Many, One; Portraits of American Immigrants.” Among the 43 immigrants whose stories are told alongside their portraits, is Vietnamese-born Kimberly Mitchell. Raised in Solon Springs after being adopted by an American Airman from an orphanage in Da’Nang during the Vietnam War, she is now the Senior Vice President for Military, Veteran and Gov't Affairs at National University in California after a career in the Navy and as an aide to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Host Robin Washington talks with her about her life, her work, and being depicted in art by a president.

Remembering Walter Mondale: Host Robin Washington talks with regional political figures as well as everyday folks about their personal encounters with the former United States vice president on his many visits to the area, both for political work and to enjoy the outdoors, on this edition of “Simply Superior.”

A look back at the week’s news highlights with The Star Tribune’s Brooks Johnson and Wisconsin Public Radio reporter Danielle Kaeding.

Reviewing the financial picture of Catalyst, a television industry festival in Duluth, Minn. Plus, author Anthony Bukoski reads from his latest book "The Blondes of Wisconsin."

A look back at the week’s news highlights with The Star Tribune’s Brooks Johnson and Wisconsin Public Radio reporter Danielle Kaeding.