Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
February 27, 2001 -
February 27, 2001 - A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to enact a "patient's bill of rights" during this year's session. The lawmakers say the measure would ensure HMO's are held accountable when a patient is denied care. Last year, a similar measure passed the DFL controlled senate but failed in the Republican house. Supporters say they are confident the legislation has a better chance of passage this year since voters made it an issue in the last political campaign. But opponents say consumers won't back the bill once they realize how much it could cost. Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Scheck reports..
February 27, 2001 -
February 28, 2001 - State officials release their latest revenue forecast this morning (WEDNESDAY), and lawmakers expect it to show the state's budget surplus shrinking from a projected three-billion dollars over the two-and-a-half years to between two-billion and two-point-six billion. A smaller surplus means the Governor and the Legislature will have less money available for permanent tax cuts and spending increases. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
February 28, 2001 - MPR commentator Dale Connelly with his humorous Robert Frost inspired poem "Stopping by the Links on a Snowy Evening."
February 28, 2001 - The last day of February means anglers have to take their ice houses off Minnesota lakes. But with so much snow on the ground, skiing and snowmobiling enthusiasts are still living it up. And for some Minnesotans, another winter activity could start any day -- maple sugaring. The season is unpredictable -- requiring warm days and cold nights. Author Susan Carol Hauser writes about maple sugaring and is preparing to tap the trees near her Bemidji-area home. She says according to folklore a wet winterlike the one we've had means more sap.
February 28, 2001 - In the four years Deborah Copaken Kogan worked as a press photographer, she travelled in Afghanistan with rebel fighters, visited drug dens in Amsterdam, uncovered the horrors of the Romanian orphanages, and dodged bullets during the Moscow coup in 1991. She tells her story in "Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War", a book which has drawn both praise and criticism for its frank descriptions of her love life. Kogan told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr she was drawn to photography when she realised a camera could be a passport to many places. But it wasn't the only factor that led her to become a war photographer.
February 28, 2001 - Minneapolis recording company can do what Napster cannot do for the music industry.
February 28, 2001 - MPR’s Laura McCallum reports that state officials released the latest revenue forecast, which for the first time in nine years shows a drop in projected revenues from the previous forecast. Minnesota lawmakers will have about 600-million dollars less than expected for tax cuts and spending increases over the next two years.
February 28, 2001 -