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Social Issues

'Thumbsucker' explores the bleaker side of being a teenager

Minnesota author Walter Kirn's novel, "Thumbsucker," gets the Hollywood treatment as of this weekend. His story is about a disaffected teenager growing up in a dysfunctional family in Stillwater.

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The death of the world's Nazi hunter

Simon Wiesenthal died in Austria on Tuesday at the age of 96. Wiesenthal was best known for bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. Midmorning examines the legacy of the Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate.

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Overhauling state child-protection systems

State supreme court justices, attorneys and social workers from across the country convene in Bloomington Tuesday for a national summit on how to improve America's child protection systems. Why are the systems perceived to be broken, and how might they be fixed?

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Heart strings and purse strings

Private donations to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina now exceed $1 billion. But not all disasters bring in such big money. How do people decide which causes should receive their financial support?

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It's all about respect

Minnesota's Iron Range is getting some national publicity as critics get a first glimpse at the new movie "North Country." The film tells the story of the women who took jobs in Minnesota's iron mines in the 1970s … and the men who tried to drive them out. It's based on the true story of women at Eveleth Taconite who sued the mine for sexual harassment. Women who worked in other mines on the Range say they faced harassment, too. But there were also good times, and men who were good friends.

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No Place for a Woman

In the 1970s, women began breaking into male-dominated professions as never before, and some faced a hostile reception. In the iron mines of northern Minnesota, women were harassed, threatened and assaulted. Their fight to keep their jobs broke new legal ground, and helped change the workplace forever. American RadioWorks' new documentary, "No Place for a Woman," tells their story.

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Not all the mines were bad

Although some women who worked in the iron mines of northern Minnesota in the 1970s suffered harassment at the hands of their male coworkers, most of the mines weren't that bad. Three women who worked at Reserve Mining Co. in Babbitt remember it as a good place to work.

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Working in the mines today

Women working the Minnesota iron mines today say they don't face the same resentment and difficulties that their predecessors did years ago.

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Explaining the Iron Range character

The new Warner Brothers movie, "North Country," being released in October, is based on a legal battle which took place in a Minnesota iron mine in the mid-'70s. Parts of the movie were filmed on the Iron Range. Range native Sally Mayasich gives a tour of her hometown to help explain the area's unique character.

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Hunting season looms after Vang verdict

Publicity over Chai Vang's trial isn't deterring some Hmong immigrants from their hunting plans this season. Vang was found guilty of killing six members of a hunting party in a northern Wisconsin woods last November. Vang's trial put tensions between white hunters and Hmong hunters into sharp focus.

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