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August 14, 2000 - From Minnesota Public Radio, this is Future Tense for August 14th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today, tipping your favorite musicians at Fairtunes.com. You like what you hear, but you're feeling a little guilty the Jayhawks aren't making a cent off you. Now, you can send money directly to musicans, bypassing the entire music distribution system that enriches recrord labels, promoters and other middlemen. You can do this at a new Web site called Fairtunes.com. It's a new site started by recent college dropouts John ___ and Matt Goyer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Goyer says...
August 14, 2000 - in Los Angeles. There will be no more suspense over the nomination than at the G-O-P convention two weeks ago, but Minnesota's 91 delegates say their convention will provide more substance. And they say it will offer more diversity. Nearly a quarter of Minnesota's delegates represent ethnic minorities. Democrats say that's in sharp contrast with the Republicans. Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo reports.
August 14, 2000 - The lawyer who led Minnesota's successful lawsuit against big tobacco is tackling what some may see as an even bigger challenge - Minnesota's US Senate race. Mike Ciresi hopes to win a competitive four-way DFL Senate primary, and go on to beat Republican incumbent Rod Grams. Ciresi has money, a creative ad campaign, a good grasp of the issues and some big name support. But he's never run for office before, and must convince DFL primary voters that he's the best Democrat to take on Grams. In the third in our series of candidate profiles, Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum looks at the career and campaign of Mike Ciresi...
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August 15, 2000 - The Minnesota Orchestra is backing away from a report in the Star-Tribune that it is canceling its annual Viennese Sommerfest music festival. The paper reported that the four week summer festival lost a record 250-thousand dollars this year. But the orchestra says it doesn't yet have the final accounting on this year's festival and that Minnesotan's can look forward to a summer festival next year, even if isn't in the twenty-year Sommerfest tradition. Louise Rohr (rur) is Vice President of marketing for the Minnesota Orchestra. She says the Orchestra has spent the day trying to get the word out that the festival is still on:
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August 15, 2000 - MPR’s Lorna Benson talks with Ryan Olcott, founder of the rock band 12 Rods, about the group’s album “Separation Anxieties.”
August 15, 2000 - There's no "Clinton Fatigue" among the Minnesota delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Delegates praised Clinton's speech last night. They also heard from several other heavy hitters in their own meetings. And a Minnesota official made her own speech to the convention. Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo reports. President Bill Clinton was the star attraction at the Democratic Convention last night and Minnesota delegates say he didn't disappoint. Clinton stressed the country's record-breaking stretch of economic prosperity. And Everrett Pettiford of Minneapolis says the President hit the right chord. Pettiford: "..."
August 15, 2000 - One of the great unanswerable questions of U.S. geography is: exactly where does "the west" begin? On the South Dakota border there's a lake that could be used to make a case for Minnesota as the gateway to the west. Mainstreet Radio's Mark Steil profiles Salt Lake, which has more in common with the land of cowboys and cattle than any of Minnesota's 10,000+ other lakes.
August 15, 2000 - BENSON: ...Some Democrats have noted the party's ticket leans to the center of the political spectrum and that the party's platform follows suit. Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo is travelling with the Minnesota Delegation and had a chance to speak with Mayor Sayles Belton about the party's direction. Michael, how much attention are the delegates giving to the platform? KHOO: Well, Lorna, many Minnesota delegates were in the convention center this afternoon paying attention -- primarily because of Mayor Sayles Belton's speech -- although the platform presentation clearly didn't have the same