Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
March 5, 2001 - The Minneapolis-based Star Tribune is converting to a narrower format. Starting tomorrow morning, the newspaper will be about five percent smaller. The change follows an industry trend to reduce newsprint costs, which have increased sharply in recent years. Faith Christine is a senior project manager at the Star Tribune. She says the new format won't cut into content.
March 5, 2001 - Using the web to fight world poverty. Internet should be able to encourage Americans to be aware and care about world poverty.
March 5, 2001 - Lenders are sending out "free" money and tricking people into bad business.
March 6, 2001 - MPR’s Tim Pugmire reports that educators throughout Minnesota have criticized Governor Ventura's proposed budget as insufficient for public schools, but supporters of the state's Indian Education programs are not complaining. Ventura wants to double the current funding targeted to American Indian students in an attempt to lower one of the state's highest drop out rates.
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March 6, 2001 - A bill that would require Minnesotans to show picture identification in order to vote had a hearing yesterday before a House elections subcommittee. The bill would also require voters to provide the last four digits of their social security number, which would allow checking against criminal records or death certificates to reduce fraudulent voting. After the election problems in Florida, many states are considering election reform. On the line now to discuss what other states are doing is Jenny Drage, a policy specialist for the National Conference of State Legislatures.
March 6, 2001 - Minneapolis is finally moving earth in preparation for light rail transit. But what about Saint Paul's transit future? Instead of laying rails, the capital city is rumbling toward a less expensive system known as a busway to connect the downtown with Bloomington. There are still plenty of questions about what such a busway might look like ... and its construction is not a sure thing. Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen visited the Twin Cities' only existing busway at the University of Minnesota and filed this report...
March 6, 2001 - MPR’s Michael Khoo reports that Governor Jesse Ventura has announced a package of campaign finance reforms he says will level the playing field for all candidates in future elections. A tri-partisan group of lawmakers joined the governor to support his initiative, although some of them say even deeper reforms are necessary.
March 6, 2001 - The Peace Corps is celebrating its 40th anniversary this week. More than seven-thousand volunteers currently serve in 76 countries around the world. President Kennedy first established the Peace Corps as a challenge to young people to spend two years serving in developing countries. But you don't have to be fresh out of college to sign up. Sixty-Seven year old Prudence Perry of Milwaukee is in the first few months of a Peace Corp assignment in Tonga, an island chain in the South Pacific. She says the most difficult aspect of daily life is the weather: