Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
September 5, 2000 - Catholic educators in the Twin Cities are celebrating an enrollment revival this week as they open four new schools. Officials with the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis say it's been 30 years since a new Catholic school building opened its doors. They say more schools are expected in the next few years as Catholic and Non-Catholic parents try to fill a spiritual void in their children's education. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire reports...
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September 5, 2000 - Minneapolis school district officials began the new school year reminding students they need to show up for classes every day. The state's largest school district is phasing in a tough new attendance policy this year that will eventually require students to show up 95-percent of the time. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire reports.
September 5, 2000 - When Americans pick a representative to send to Congress, they send that same person to Washington for several terms. While the power of incumbency makes it difficult to replace a sitting Representative, it also means an open seat becomes a magnet for Congressional hopefuls. Such is the case this year in Minnesota's fourth district. Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen has this look at the race to succeed the retiring Bruce Vento...
September 5, 2000 - Even a quick search of the internet shows law-based websites are growing exponentially. That expansion is expected to continue in large part because the internet and the law, which is text-based are a good fit. But web-based law is largely unregulated and there are pitfalls for the unwary. Minnesota Public Radio's Elizabeth Stawicki reports on what law on the web means for the profession and the consumer: MInneapolis attorney Don Nichols has practiced law for nearly 30 years and is astounded by the range of legal services offered on the web:
September 6, 2000 - Money problems have delayed today's (Weds) expected announcement from the Metropolitan Council that it has awarded a major contract for light rail construction. Officials expect to make the announcement next week, but in the meantime planners are recommending the Metropolitan Airports Commission increase it's contribution to the project as a way to help cover a higher-than-expected bid for the light line tunnel at the airport. Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson reports. {Last week project managers said they were ready to recommend that the Metropolitan Council award the three hundred million Hiawatha Avenue light rail line construction contract to California-based Granite Construction Company and Minnesota-based C. S. McCrossan Company. But Tuesday, Metropolitan Council officials said a final vote on the award is delayed so planners can try find a way to cover a twenty five million dollar gap that appeared at the end of August. That's when officials learned the low bid for building the mile and half long light rail tunnel under the Twin Cities airport is one hundred ten million dollars compared to the eighty five million alloted for the project. The Metropolitan Airports Commission is managing tunnel construction. The MAC's Nigel Finney says the airport commission may need to contribute more to the project. audio . . . .we've been talking previously about a contribution of seventy million dollars. We'll be recommending at least as a staff to the commission they increase that level of participation to help offset the costs. (what might be increase?) I'd say on the order of sixteen to eighteen million dollars.
September 6, 2000 - As the US economy and stock market have boomed, so has charitable giving. But philanthropy is changing, especially among corporate programs. The shift reflects companies' changing priorities AND the reshaping of Minnesota's business landscape after a series of mergers and acquisitions. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Catlin has the first report in a 3 part series, The Changing Face of Philanthropy.
September 6, 2000 - Law enforcement officers from all over the country poured into Winona today to pay tribute to (fallen) Minnesota State Trooper, Corporal Theodore Foss who was killed last week during a routine traffic stop. Minnesota Public Radio's Erin Galbally has this report.
September 6, 2000 - The Nature Conservancy of Minnesota has nearly doubled its holdings with the purchase of 25,000 acres in Northern Minnesota. While it is now prairie, gravel and wetlands, the conservation group's new land once was completely underwater, part of the Lake Aggasiz lakebed. Aggasiz was huge, three times the size of Lake Superior. It covered parts of what is now Minnesota, the Dakotas and Canada. When it drained, the Aggasiz shoreline became wetlands and prairies. "Glacial Ridge," as the Nature Conservancy is calling its new purchase, was part of that former shoreline. Rob McKim, the State Director of the Minnesota Nature Conservancy, says that the area is important because it connects other wildlife management areas, and because Aggasiz left behind a unique topography.
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