Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
December 6, 2000 - retires. McNerney's challenge will be to apply General Electric's decisive, profit-centered management philosophy to 3M's culture of innovation. Minnesota Public Radio's Andrew Haeg reports.
December 6, 2000 - Both sides in Minnesota's second congressional district claim they've picked up votes in a recount which is about half over. Republican Mark Kennedy defeated four term DFL'er David Minge by 155 votes in the November 7th election. Minge officials claim they've picked up 41 votes so far in the recount. Kennedy's staff says they've upped their lead by about 8 votes. Mainstreet Radio's Mark Steil reports:
December 6, 2000 - University of Minnesota doctors are hoping a drug that has shown promise treating alcoholism and gambling adiction can also help patients overcome kleptomania. The rare disorder gives people an irresistable impluse to steal. The drug, called Naltrexone, works by blocking the pleasurable high Kleptomanics feel when they shop-lift. Dr. Jon Grant, a Pyschiatric Resident at the U of M, is conducting the study. He says Kleptomania is one of the most disabling disorder's he's come across:
December 7, 2000 - Tonight Twin Cities theater goers will get a rare opportunity to see one of America's premier experimental theater ensembles--- the Wooster Group. Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr reports the New York based company is presenting "North Atlantic" a satire on cold war spy shows--- amongst other things.
December 7, 2000 - American chestnut trees, once wide-spread and widely used for food and timber, are all but gone due to a devastating fungus brought to this country in the late 1800s on mail-ordered Japanese chestnut trees. But scientists believe in another year or two they may begin reversing that trend, when they complete the final hybrid crosses of disease-resistant chestnuts. Agricultural scientist Sandra Anagnostakis (Ahnahg-nose-tahKEES) is with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station where the chestnut breeding program has been underway since 1930.
December 7, 2000 - A tenative settlement has been reached in a class action sex discrimination lawsuit against St. Cloud State University. The suit had alleged the school paid women less money than men, denied them valid promotions, and allowed sexual harassment to occur. The proposed settlement would affect between 200 and 250 female faculty members and ends more than four years of litigation. Minnesota Public Radio's Patty Marsicano reports:
December 7, 2000 - Born in Egypt and now living in Britain, novelist Ahdaf Soueif says she is caught in the space between two cultures. She's placed both of those cultures under a magnifying-glass in her Booker Prize short-listed novel "The Map of Love." The book examines the complex historical and political relationship between Egypt, Britain and the US, but Soueif told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr she set out to write a romance. She says she is a fan of the genre of stories of courageous Victorian women setting out from the West to explore the exotic east, and so that is where she started.
December 7, 2000 - Minnesota's Iron Range is bracing for an economic down turn when LTV Steel closes it's Hoyt Lake taconite mine in February. The company announced yesterday the plant is shutting down several months sooner than earlier announced, putting more than a thousand people out of work. Economists say the closing may strengthen Minnesota's six remaining taconite companies - but any benefits may be diminished by a softening national economy. Minnesota Public Radio's Bob Kelleher reports: {The timing couldn't be worse for the workers of LTV Steel Mining, who expected another eight months on the job. Instead, the company's Iron Mine and taconite pellet production will end February 24th - with a few hundred workers staying on into the summer to ship pellet stockpiles. Laid off workers are faced with Christmas expenses and predictions of soaring winter heating bills.
December 7, 2000 - Robbinsdale Superintendent talks about how to get through the bus driver picket lines.
December 7, 2000 - Why the world might have trouble fighting cybercrime.