Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
October 10, 2000 - Taconite mining creates a lot of waste rock. After thirty years of dumping the rock, or tailings as the miners call it, the Evtac facility near Eveleth has just about filled its dump. Now the company faces a new challenge: return the rock pile to a natural looking landscape. Evtac has been looking at a number of options, and as Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Hemphill reports, the hot favorite appears to be what the experts call bio-solids, and the rest of us call sewage sludge. Turning iron ore into taconite creates twice as much waste rock as taconite. Since the Evtac mine opened over 30 years ago, waste rock has been piled in one place. The pile is now a mountain a mile long, a mile wide and 150 feet high. It looks like a lunar landscape, and it's virtually sterile.
October 10, 2000 - When families adopt from overseas they often know little about their children. Some have a few lines from a medical report or maybe a postage stamp-sized photograph. Over the past decade videos have become increasingly popular as a way to introduce a child to prospective parents. The videos are sometimes useful in determining a child's health, but some conditions are not visible on tape leaving many parents unprepared for their child. Minnesota Public Radio's Lynette Nyman has this second part in our series 'One Family: Two Countries.'
October 10, 2000 - The old Winona County courthouse is nearly dried out. The courthouse was damaged about a month ago, when four thousand gallons of water from broken water lines flooded the building. City and county leaders plan to repair it, but say it may cost about one million dollars. The building is 112 years old and is on the national register of historic places. Charlie Nelson is the state historical architect, and he was down in Winona recently to tour the mostly vacant building.
October 10, 2000 - Metro-area commuters will get a four to six week break from freeway ramp meters starting next Monday. The Minnesota Legislature has ordered the shutdown in order to study the effectiveness of the meters. A leading critic of the ramp meters expects the study will show that the mini-stoplights impede the flow of traffic. However, a representative of the firm that will collect the data, says, meters in other cities have been beneficial to travellers. Minnesota Public Radio's Brandt Williams reports
October 10, 2000 -
October 10, 2000 - Online learning site from some of the world's prestigious universities.
October 10, 2000 -
October 10, 2000 - Some entrepreneurs and investors who got in on the ground floor of dot-com initial public offerings or IPOs last year rocketed to serious wealth virtually overnight. Another group that's benefitted from the booming New Economy is the attorneys who advised the IPOs, not for the typical fees but for company stock. Some law firms made millions. But a number of critics argue these firms are also risking conflicts of interest. And as Minnesota Public Radio's Elizabeth Stawicki reports, lawyers could end up defending *themselves* in court now that high tech stocks are cooling off.
October 11, 2000 - A few days ago President Clinton signed the Inter-country Adoption Act which will make the ground rules for adopting children from other countries much more formal. By signing the law the president entered the U.S. into an international treaty, known as the Hague Convention, that increases regulations on international adoptions. Supporters of the new law say the old system was too succeptible to abuses. Talking with MPR News is Sharon Kaufman, executive director of the Joint Council on International Children's Services in Washington D.C.
October 11, 2000 - The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite stock index continued its decline today, and is now down more than 20 percent for the year. Entrepreneurs and investors meeting at a conference in Minneapolis say the volatility in the markets has made venture capitalists and investors in early stage firms more choosy about which companies they'll fund. But some say that may help Minnesota firms. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Catlin reports.