Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
February 6, 1998 - note host back announce When the Iowa septuplets were born last November, many experts in reproductive medicine reacted with mixed feelings. The mother, Bobbi McCaughey, got pregnant using a powerful fertility drug that stimulated her ovaries so much that she produced seven babies. Some infertility specialists say that the chance of multiple births--and other risks with infertility medicine--might be lower if not for a long-standing ban on federal support for human embryo research. Minnesota Public Radio's Stephen Smith reports: To find out more about our series, "The Fertility Ra
February 6, 1998 - A new state report to be released this morning says all the studies of Twin Cities transit options done so far do not make a convincing case for the expensive proposals before lawmakers this session. The report from the Legislative Auditor raises questions about the predictions of car congestion on Twin Cities roadways. Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson has more. The Legislative Auditor's report won't be public until it's released to lawmakers. State officials who've seen the document say the report finds that for all the analysis over the past 30 years, especially of light rail transit, crucial information has not been looked at. The report says there's no analysis of what taxpayers will get in the way of
February 6, 1998 - Opening ceremonies will be held tonight for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Among the hundreds of athletes competing for medals this year are fifteen Minnesotans. Minnesota Public Radio's Perry Finelli reports on some of them, and attempts to get more of the state's athletes into future olympics.
February 6, 1998 - A group that's trying to get St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman to join the race for governor says thousands of republican activists statewide would support a Coleman canidadacy. The so-called "Committee for Minnesota's Future," wants Coleman to make a decision on the race soon. This afternoon, members went to the mayor's office to urge him to run. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports.
February 6, 1998 - If you watched Saturday morning cartoons during the seventies and early eighties you probably saw the "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoons. They featured catchy little songs which skillfully obscured the fact they were teaching useful lessons along the lines of "how a Bill becomes a law" or "A Noun is a person, place or thing." The original TV series of some forty little ditties won four Emmy Awards. The series evidently struck a chord with many young viewers, because the it has since spawned a CD with covers of the songs done by Gen-X bands and a stageshow extremely popular with, you guessed it, twenty-somethings. The touring show in Minneapolis tonight at the Music Box Theatre. Lorna Benson asked George Newall, the creative director of the original cartoon series, how Schoolhouse Rock came about.
February 6, 1998 - Lou Bellamy, Penumbra's artistic director, says his theater has outgrown its current home in the Hallie Q. Brown/Martin Luther King Center and is looking to be a part of African American arts complex in St. Paul.
February 6, 1998 - use this edited version Republican gubernatorial candidates made their pitch for the environmentalist vote last night (THURS). State Senator Roy Terwilliger and former State Representative Allen Quist took questions from the League of Conservation Voters, a group that's trying to get all the candidates on the record on issues ranging from nuclear waste storage to wetlands. Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste reports: If last night's League of Conservation Voters forum is any indication, urban sprawl and the transportation problems that go with it has become a top-priority issue for Minnesota environmentalists. The audience peppered the candidates with questions about land use planning, mass transit and gridlock -- and the two Republicans offered some surprising
February 9, 1998 - At this moment thousands of flesh-eating bugs are munching away on dozens of animal parts, in the basement of a neat-looking brick home in a quiet St.Paul neighborhood. The offerings come from taxidermists, veterinarians and museums. In today's odd jobs segment Kathleen Hallinan introduces you to a beetle rancher.
February 9, 1998 - The biggest news out of Nagano today seems to be the continuing snowfall. Jay Weiner is covering the Olympics for the Star Tribune. He says organizers are beginning to worry.
February 9, 1998 - The desire to make internal documents public is a major shift in tobacco companys' strategy. Peter Pringle, author of "Cornered: Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice" talks about what would motivate such a move.