Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
January 20, 1997 - Midday presents live coverage of the President Bill Clinton’s inauguration, followed by Robert Trout documentary on inaugurations.
January 20, 1997 - this is future tense for monday, january 20th. i'm jon gordon. today, columnist and author andy inahtko on AOL. Andy Inahtko is a regular columnist for macuser magazine. his new book is 'cyber speak-an online dictionary. we'll have andy on future tense from time to time to define computing terms and concepts for us. his first assignment: to define 'america online.'
January 20, 1997 - Ambassador Andrew Young says his friend Martin Luther King, Jr. "did everything he could to be an ordinary person but became a man of destiny." Young worked with King in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was on the motel balcony next to him when a sniper killed King. Young spoke today in Minneapolis at the 7th annual Martin Luther King,Jr. day breakfast sponsored by the General Mills Foundation. We have a couple of excerpts of Ambassador Young's remarks. Ambassador Young said the civil rights work to be done in this country is what he calls integrating the nation's money. Young says people whose neighborhoods are redlined by lenders are like residents of an underdeveloped nation living inside the United States.
January 20, 1997 - On this Odd Jobs feature, MPR’s Euan Kerr interviews Steve Sklar, a local throat singer. Sklar specializes in a style of music born on the windy steppes of Mongolia. He describes and performs various traditional styles of throat singing.
January 20, 1997 - MPR’s Tim Pugmire profiles Seed Academy and Harvest Preparatory School, an African American private school in North Minneapolis. The school began in 1985 as a pre-school program in its founders' house. Ten years later there are 300 students enrolled in pre-school through sixth grade.
January 21, 1997 - Any visitor to the St. Paul Hotel in Minnesota's capital has probably become acquainted with its head doorman, Carlisle Pierre. With his soothing baritone voice and always cheerful demeanor, "Carlisle" has been a permanent fixture at the hotel for the last seven years. With Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Roberts at his side, the Trinidad native shared some of his secrets for providing top-notch service....even in the dead of winter.....at the twin cities' only four-star hotel.
January 21, 1997 - MICROSOFT CORP.'S SHARE PRICE ROSE TO RECORD LEVELS YESTERDAY DESPITE A WARNING BY THE SOFTWARE GIANT OF SLOWING GROWTH IN FISCAL 1998. MICROSOFT REPORTED OUTSTANDING SECOND-QUARTER RESULTS ON FRIDAY AND SPARKED A BROAD RALLY ON THE NASDAQ. BUT MICROSOFT EXECUTIVES WARNED OF A SLOWDOWN IN GROWTH IN FISCAL 1998 WHICH BEGINS JULY 1. BUT MOST INVESTORS DID NOT HEED THE WARNING. ANALYST SCOTT MCADAMS OF RAGEN MACKENZIE SAID INVESTORS ARE HAPPY TO PAY A PREMIUM FOR A COMPANY THAT DOMINATES ONE OF THE BIGGEST GROWTH INDUSTRIES AND CONSISTENTLY SURPASSES WALL STREET EXPECTATION
January 21, 1997 - The state legislative auditor says the cost of special education is going up fast in Minnesota -- almost twice as fast as the cost of general K-12 schooling. The finding is part of a report released today (Tuesday) that has many legislators worried that special education may soon become too expensive for the state to bear... but as Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste reports, legislators aren't sure what to do about it: Minnesota schools spent 1-point-1 Billion (B) dollars on special education students in 1995... that's about 21 percent of their total budgets. On a student-by-student basis, that works out to about 12-thousand dollars a year. Non-special ed students cost less than 6 thousand dollars a year. The numbers are impressive, but not particularly surprising to the legislators who appropriate the money being spent. Senate K-12 Budget committee
January 21, 1997 - (USED THIS VERSION FOR ME PLEASE, REMOVES DATED INFO) The proposed merger between Northern STates power and Wisconsin Energy has been put on hold by two Wisconsin judges. In a related action the Wisconsin Public service commission has decided not to investigate one of its members who allegedly had improper talks with Wisconsin energy officials. Wisconsin Public Radio's Churk Quirmbach reports from Madison Host Tag: On the Minnesota side of this story the State Public Utilities Commission has reversed itself and decided that two PUC commissioners also accused of improper contact with NSP do not have to remove themselves from the merger decision
January 21, 1997 - As far as Larry Jacobs is concerned, you can get on President Clinton's case for any number of things, except for one thing: pandering. He says the latest research he's done does not support the contention that politicians at the Federal level are reading the polls before making policy decisions. Jacobs teaches political science at the U-of-M and, with his collleague Robert Shapiro of Columbia, had unprecedented access recently to more than a hundred workers and advisors in the executive and legislative branches. Jacobs says their goal was to test public perception of the job being done on both sides of the aisle in Washington. Larry Jacobs is a poli-sci professor at the University of Minnesota. Later, he'll be releasing more information from the interviews he and C