Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
November 27, 2000 - President Clinton says he will review a clemency request for American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier. In 1977, Peltier was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier says he's innocent and that the evidence against him was falsified. Gina Chiala, co-coordinator of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, says President Clinton's willingness to review the case bodes well for Peltier.
November 27, 2000 - Joining us now with his take on the situation in Florida is Steven Schier, chair of the political science department at Carleton College in Northfield.
November 27, 2000 - If you're a football fan, you're not alone. Minnesota is full of enthusiastic spectators of the game from the high school leagues on up. Ross Bernstein's new book "Pigskin Pride: Celebrating a Century of Minnesota Football" documents I asked him how Minnesota stacks up against other football loving states: Ross Bernstein called to give the details about his upcoming book signings: Saturday from 11-4pm at Southdale B Dalton and Sunday from 1-5pm at Burnsville B-Dalton. Saturday from 6-8 at Maplewood B-Dalton.
November 27, 2000 - (FOR MONDAY, NOV 27) The Twin Cities ramp meter experiment is winding down. While traffic experts pore over reams of data and develop recommendations based on the study, Minnesota transportation officials must decide what to do in the meantime: leave the meters off? Turn them back on? Something in between? Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo reports.
November 27, 2000 - Interview with Chris Farrell, talking about the impact of business and lifestyle in Florida during the election recount and talking about holiday shopping.
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November 28, 2000 - Miniature police robots are doing police work in California.
November 28, 2000 - Saint Paul mayor Norm Coleman's weekend announcement that he will not seek re-election raised expectations that he'll run for governor. But Coleman's decision also changes the landscape of Saint Paul city politics. Yesterday (Mon), former city council member Bobbi Megard entered a mayor's race that is certain to become more crowded by next fall. Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen reports...
November 28, 2000 - Every story in Frederick Busch's new collection of short fiction"Don't Tell Anyone" is about secrets. There are different kinds: people hiding a troubled past, or a current problem, some denying reality, and others simply ignorant of what the rest of the world seems to know. Busch says he did not set out to write about secrets, its just the way his fiction has developed in recent years. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr secrets are stories in themselves, but he doesn't really know from where his stories come. Frederick Busch's collection of stories "Don't Tell Anyone" is published by Norton. If you would like to hear an extended interview with Frederick Busch, and read more about his work, please visit the bookpage at Minnesotapublicradio-dot-org. You'll also be able to find past book interviews from MPR programs.
November 28, 2000 - A funeral home offers a service to transmit the funeral on the internet to relatives who are not able to make it.