MPR News editor-at-large and retired host Gary Eichten has worn many hats during his 40-plus-year career at Minnesota Public Radio, including news director, special events producer and station manager. He has served as host for Minnesota Public Radio's live, special events news coverage, and has hosted all of the major news programs on Minnesota Public Radio, including Midday, which he hosted for more than 20 years.
A graduate of St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, Eichten began his career at Minnesota Public Radio as a student announcer at KSJR (Minnesota Public Radio's first station). Among the honors Eichten has received during his career is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting award for best local news program. He also assisted in the development of two Peabody award-winning documentaries. In 2007, he was inducted into the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting's Hall of Fame. Eichten has also been awarded the prestigious 2011 Graven Award by the Premack Public Affairs Journalism Awards Board for his contribution to excellence in the journalism profession.
May 31, 2002 - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro speaks at Ruminator Books in Minneapolis, recorded last week. Caro, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his book "The Power Broker," is promoting his latest work, "Master of the Senate," the third book in a biographical series about president Lyndon Baines Johnson.
May 30, 2002 - The May edition of MPR's "Voices of Minnesota" series, featuring two Minnesotans who do international relief work: Juliette Fournot of Doctors Without Borders and Tony Kozlowski, former head of the Minnesota-based American Refugee Committee, who is now with a Swiss humanitarian agency.
May 30, 2002 - The May edition of MPR's "Voices of Minnesota" series, featuring two Minnesotans who do international relief work: Juliette Fournot of Doctors Without Borders and Tony Kozlowski, former head of the Minnesota-based American Refugee Committee, who is now with a Swiss humanitarian agency.
May 28, 2002 - Author and activist Randall Robinson speaks at the University of Minnesota's Nommo forum about slavery reparations. Robinson is the author of two influential books on the subject: "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks," and "The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other."
May 23, 2002 - Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman speaks to the Minnesota Women's Campaign Fund in downtown Minneapolis about women's progress achieving public office. Also includes brief remarks by newly elected Sen. Mee Moua, DFL-St. Paul. And the show wraps up with a commencement address at Macalester College by Garrison Keillor.
May 23, 2002 - More than 30 state legislators won't be returning to their seats next year; Retiring DFL State Senator Doug Johnson of Tower is one of them. Senator Johnson will talk about his 30-year career in the Minnesota Legislature.
May 13, 2002 - Texan author and widely syndicated political columnist Molly Ivins speaks at the College of St. Catherine as part of their "Women in Leadership" series. Ivins is the author of the best-seller "Molly Ivins Can't Say that, Can She?," and her most recent book, about George W. Bush, is titled "Shrub."
May 9, 2002 - Biologist Sandra Steingraber speaks live from the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis. Steingraber's new book, "An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood," discusses the alarming extent to which environmental hazards now threaten each crucial stage of infant development.
April 24, 2002 - Patrick Schiltz, Interim Dean of the University of St. Thomas Law School, talks about the American Catholic Cardinals meeting with the Pope in Rome to discuss sex abuse by priests.
April 16, 2002 - Psychologist and best-selling author Mary Pipher speaks in St. Paul at a Ruminator Books event. Her new book is "The Middle of Nowhere: The World's Refugees Come to Our Town", a collection of personal stories from Lincoln, Nebraska.