Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
October 19, 2000 - Marc Singer says he didn't start off trying to make a movie, much less one that would win three major awards at the Sundance Film Festival this year. He says he was just looking out his New York apartments window, shortly after he arrived from England, and became fascinated with the street people he saw living around him. He went out of his way to meet some of them, and soon found himself in the dank, rat-infested railway tunnels under the city, among the hundreds of people who call the tunnels home. Singer is in Minneapolis today for a screening of "Dark Days" which tells their stories. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr he and his new friends had been looking for ways to get people out of the tunnel.
October 19, 2000 - A new, provocative public service campaign against sexual assault has hit airwaves and billboards across Minnesota. The campaign's message tells a viewer or listener that they could potentially be a rapist. The combination of shock and sexuality in the images is a tried and true formula for selling products, and some advocates are hoping the same formula will propel their anti-violence message into the minds of their target audience 18 to 24 year old men. Mainstreet Radio's Marisa Helms reports.
October 20, 2000 - Candidates in the fourth congressional district took the stage at the College of St. Catherine's in St. Paul Thursday, to debate domestic issues from higher education to the dealth penalty. D-F-Ler Betty McCollum, Republican Linda Runbeck and Independence Party candidate Tom Foley are running to replace Congressman Bruce Vento, in an unpredictable three-way race that has attracted national attention. Despite the high stakes, the tone of the debate was polite, with the candidates only rarely questioning one another on their respective records. Minnesota Public Radio's Amy Radil reports.
October 20, 2000 - Governor Jesse Ventura embarks tomorrow (Saturday) on his second major foreign trade mission. Ventura will lead a delegation to Mexico where he'll promote Minnesota exports. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...
October 20, 2000 - Governor Jesse Ventura ordered the National Guard to provide assistance to crews fighting the brush fire north of the Twin Cities. The fire is burning just east of Interstate 35 between Stacy and Wyoming. Ashes from a homeowner's recreational fire sparked the blaze which has burned about 10,000 acres, and forced numerous evacuations. Jean Sheppy is a ranger with the national park service, and she's at the fire command center in the wildlife area.
October 20, 2000 - Counting all the information produced in the world is a niew kind of literacy that needs to be explored. University of California-Berkeley is attempting to take on the challenge. Information is counted in exabites (1^18).
October 20, 2000 - Interstate 35 in the Stacy/Wyoming area is now open. It had been closed because of thick smoke. But traffic is now being allowed to move through.
October 20, 2000 - A large brush fire continues to burn, out of control, just north of the Twin Cities, around the Stacy area. Four to five thousand acres have already burned and crews are preparing to send up six planes that will begin dropping water on this fire. Up to 15-hundred residents in Stacy were evacuated late last night, as the fire began spreading toward the small town, just off of I-35.
October 20, 2000 - Meteorologist Mark Seeley joins us for a look at the dry weather and warm temperatures.
October 20, 2000 - The Gopher football team will face Indiana on the road this weekend. The Gophers are 3 and 1 in the big ten. They've surprised fans with their performance this year, even upsetting six-ranked Ohio State in Colombus last weekend. Minnesota broadcast legend, Ray Christensen, called that game, as he has Gopher games for the past fifty years.