Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
April 3, 1997 - A House Committee has withdrawn provisions of a bill that would tax monthly access fees to the Internet. The tax provision was deleted following a veto threat by the Governor. Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports.
April 3, 1997 - A House Committee has withdrawn provisions of a bill that would tax monthly access fees to the Internet, following a veto threat by the Governor. Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports.
April 3, 1997 - MPR’s Bob Collins reports that despite latest stadium bill being roundly disliked, it has been stalled…but not dead. By a single vote, the House Local Government and Metropolitan Affairs Committee refused to refer bill to Taxes Committee.
April 3, 1997 - In a case with parallels to the recent Food Lion Supermarket suit against ABC's "Prime Time Live" program, a Twin Cities television station is being sued for using a hidden camera. WCCO sent one of its producers undercover with a hidden camera for a report on alledged abuses in a home for disabled adults. Like the Food Lion case, the suit centers on how reporters gathered the information--not the accuracy of the report. Minnesota Public Radio's Elizabeth Stawicki reports.
April 4, 1997 - This spring there's been a lot of attention about flooding in western Minneosta, but floodwaters are predicted to cause problems in parts of the Twin Cities as well, especially in the St. Croix River Valley. The St. Croix River is rising and the weather service is predicting it'll crest in less than two weeks almost two feet higher than it did in 1993. Businesses, local governments, and residents are all getting ready for the flood. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports... | D-CART ITEM:5095 | TIME: 5:08s
April 4, 1997 - MPR’s Bob Kelleher reports that sixteen exhausted negotiators gave up their efforts Thursday to settle the most contentious management issue in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. In twenty-two meetings over eight months, the panel managed to find consensus on minor disputes over the use of the federal wilderness area, but there was no agreement on the one issue that led to their convening.
April 4, 1997 - The chairman of the Senate K-12 education budget committee today dropped a small political bomb today (Friday) when he proposed a version of Governor Carlson's school vouchers plan. Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste reports: DFL State Senator Larry Pogemiller says his plan isn't a vouchers plan -- it's a "CERTIFICATES" plan. But both plans seem to share the same basic philosophy: the idea that free-market-style competition would be good for Minnesota's schools:
April 4, 1997 - It's apiary time in Minnesota. Yesterday in Collegeville, Kenwood Trail Junior High School seventh-grader Jennifer Meyer won the state spelling bee by correctly spelling the word "barnacled". As in "the hull of Bob Potter's boat is heavily barnacled." Meyer goes to the nationals next month. Some of the words she got right that were: hyrax, vinaigrette, and jeremiad. The state finals in the National Geography Bee were held today at Macalester College in Saint Paul. One-hundred fourth through eighth graders competed for the chance to go to the nationals in Washington D.C. next month.
April 4, 1997 - SELF-CONTAINED. BEGINS WITH FILM CLIP, ENDS WITH MUSIC SCRIPT, SUCH AS IT IS: CLIP: IT WAS ONLY A FILM. Maybe it's unfair to use this particular clip from the Peter Greenaway film "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover" to introduce our next piece. But if it's transgressive of radio tradition, that fits Greenaway, who's spent his life seducing and unsettling audiences. Tonite, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis begins a
April 4, 1997 - The threat of flooding has people thirsty for information. Sioux Falls has quenched that with an Internet home paged filled with flood information. It's an inexpensive way to provide updated information and advanced warning for homeowners and businesses. Minnesota Public Radio's Cara Hetland reports: Sioux Falls officials elevated their desire to establish a home page when the Army Corps of Engineers issued a record flood warning in February. The city went on-line March 17 and since then the home page has been accessed more than eight-thousand times. Public Works Director Lyle Johnson says the sole purpose of the flood information is to inform people. cut :15 "when it comes to flood preparation, people need to have the sa