Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
February 15, 2001 - AIDS Activists spent the day at the Capitol today (thursday) lobbying the state legislature to increase funding for HIV and AIDS prevention. Officials with the Minnesota AIDS Project want the state to spend an additional 2 million dollars to improve education efforts regarding HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The group says it's disappointed with Governor Ventura's budget because it cuts HIV prevention spending for the first time since the epidemic began. Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Scheck reports...
February 15, 2001 - A new poll commissioned by Minnesota Public Radio and the St. Paul Pioneer Press suggests many Minnesotans would rather hold down tuition at the University of Minnesota than get a tax cut or rebate. The poll says holding down tuition is ALSO more important to Minnesotans than raising faculty salaries....and that University President Mark Yudof's job approval rivals Governor Ventura's. Minnesota Public Radio's Patty Marsicano reports:
February 15, 2001 - Winter Olympic Competition will be in high gear one year from now in Salt Lake City, Utah. And there will be no shortage of Minnesotans on hand to help out, especially when nordic events take the spotlight. Minneapolis ski-enthusiast Bjorn Lasserud will be volunteering during the cross country ski races. He says his specific job will be guarding the course from spectators.
February 15, 2001 - The Minnesota Nurses Association, the state chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons and long-term care facilities want the legislature to limit how much temporary nurses agencies can charge nursing homes. The groups say the so-called "nursing pools" are taking unfair advantage of the state's worker shortage by charging exhorbitant rates for workers. Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Scheck reports...
February 15, 2001 - MPR’s Art Hughes reports that Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton kicked off her re-election campaign with a bus tour designed to highlight the successes of her administration and her plans for a third term.
February 15, 2001 - After skiing and parasailing across Anarctica for more than 90 days, explorers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arneson will test a different skill... waiting. The pair have decided to cut their expedition short by having a plane pick them up on the Ross Ice Shelf, instead of continuing another 470 miles on to McMurdo station. The plane rescue is not cheap-- it adds about 200-thousand dollars to the trip's expenses. Charlie Hartwell is president of yourexpedition.com, the Minneapolis company supporting the trip. He says with the anarctic winter closing in, continuing on would have been a risk:
February 15, 2001 - Suicide depression campaign, working with Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE), is raising awareness about suicide.
February 15, 2001 - Singer Stephen Salters sings songs that represent African American heritage.
February 15, 2001 - Morning Edition’s Cathy Wurzer talks with DFL State Representative Betty Folliard, a supporter of Displaced Homemaker Program, which a Senate committee has unanimously approved a bill that would continue funding. The 23-year-old program is designed to help stay-at-home moms who are widowed, divorced, or abandoned and Folliard says the program is still necessary.
February 15, 2001 - Controversy about where to lay the track for the DM&E Railroad: through Rochester, Minnesota or through farmland?