Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
November 29, 2000 - Future Tense investigates medical information on the internet and how many internet users rely on the internet for health information.
November 29, 2000 - Johann Peter Grunnley, one of Minnesota's oldest residents, died at the age of 109. Dr. Robert Kane, the director of the Center on Aging at the University of Minnesota, speaks on how rare life longevity like Grunnley's is.
November 29, 2000 - A new report on student performance shows the Minneapolis school district continues to make overall gains, but a handful of schools aren't doing as well as they need to. Under new accountability standards, eight elementary and middle schools could face strict district interventions and the possible reorganization of staff. School officials say additional efforts are also needed district-wide to address a troubling achievement gap for African-American students. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire reports.
November 29, 2000 - An old Minnesota controversy has a breath of new life thanks to a semi-retired chemist in Wisconsin. Barry Hanson has gathered a team of experts to study whether the Kensington Runestone might actually have been carved by wandering Vikings in 1362. Most experts agree the stone is a hoax, carved in 1898 by a Swedish farmer and stone mason. But Hanson says he began to doubt those claims when he first visited the museum ten years ago:
November 29, 2000 - A panel of Twin Cities mayors says the way to build more affordable housing is to find more money, reform zoning codes, and reduce government red tape. The findings are part of a report released today by the Metropolitan Council. Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson has more. {Minneapolis mayor Sharon Sayles Belton, the co-chair of the affordable housing panel says an obvious, if freuquently overlooked need, is for public officials to tell people to pay more attention to the problem.
November 29, 2000 - Former Vice President Walter Mondale addressed a symposium on US-Japan relations. The event at Macalester College was one of a series of Mondale Lectures on Public Service, a look back at the former Vice President's 50-year career.
November 29, 2000 - Minnesota's recent warm winters have left ski-enthusiasts pining for the days of predictably snowy trails. Well, if Ahvo TY-pah-le has his way, good snow cover will never be far away. Ty-pah-le -- who owns Finn-Seesu Ski Shop in St. Paul -- wants to build the continent's first underground cross-country skiing facility. He doesn't have a site picked out for the so-called "ski-tunnel" but he estimates it will cost about 14-million dollars to build. Ty-pah-le says he visited the world's first ski-tunnel, in Finland, and thought the Twin Cities could use one too:
November 30, 2000 - A new study says Twin Cities residents spend more on transportation than on any other necessity, including housing. The Surface Transportation Policy Project-- a national smart-growth advocacy group based in Washington D-C-- ranked the Twin Cities 6th of 28 metro areas in out of pocket expenses for transportation. The typical Twin Cities' household spent 8,600 dollars per year on transportation. And 98 percent of that money went into owning and operating automobiles. The findings are based on data from the federal goverment's Consumer Expenditure Survey. Barbara McCann Co-authored the study. She says the findings weren't very suprising:
November 30, 2000 - IT'S GOING TO BE A BIG GAME FOR THE VIKINGS TONIGHT. THE VIKES TAKE THEIR 10 AND 2 RECORD INTO THE DOME AGAINST THE DETROIT LIONS. IF THE VIKINGS WIN....THEY'LL CLINCH A PLAYOFF BERTH. LOSE: AND THEIR LEAD IN THE N-F-C CENTRAL WILL BE CUT TO ONE GAME. THIS YEAR, THE VIKINGS ARE CELEBRATING THEIR 40TH ANNIVERSARY, AND FANS WERE ASKED TO PICK THEIR ALL TIME FAVORITE VIKINGS TEAM...MADE UP OF FORMER AND CURRENT VIKINGS. THAT TEAM WILL BE ON THE FIELD AT HALFTIME OF TONIGHT'S GAME. ONE OF THOSE SELECTED: PAUL KRAUSE, A HALL OF FAMER, AND MEMBER OF THE STORIED VIKINGS TEAMS OF THE 70'S. KRAUSE SAYS THE "PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS" WERE SUCCESSFUL, BECAUSE OF THE PERSONALITY OF THE TEAM.
November 30, 2000 - From Minnesota Public Radio, this is Future Tense for November 30th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today, e-customers: more satisfied than brick and mortar shoppers... ((tease cut)) Each quarter the University of Michigan business school releases the American Customer Satisfaction Index. The ACSI measures how satifsied consumers are across different segments of the economy. For the first time the ACSI looked at electronic commerce, and the results show Americans are generally happier with e-commerce than the old-fashioned kind. Professor Claes Fornell is director of the National Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan. ((fornell))