Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
March 15, 2001 -
March 15, 2001 - Over-the-road truckers are famous communicators. A couple decades ago they made the C-B radio an everyday item. But across the country, thousands of truckers are better known for their letter writing. A group called "Trucker Buddy, International" pairs up drivers and elementary school classes as pen pals. Trucker Buddies send the kids letters and post-cards from the road, and the students get an inside view of life in a Big Rig. Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Julin reports.
March 15, 2001 - Saint Paul city council members have approved plans for a development that some officials call the biggest housing project in city history. The deal with a Dallas-based company calls for six-hundred new units on a twenty-acre site along the Mississippi River. Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen reports...
March 15, 2001 - Two state legislators are calling for a criminal investigation into alleged grant money mismanagement in the Department of Children, Families and Learning. The lawmakers also want a joint House-Senate panel formed to hold public hearings on the allegations. Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire reports...
March 15, 2001 - One of the world's best collections of Ancient Egyptian Art is coming to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The exhibit, on loan from the British Museum in London, contains objects spanning three and a half thousand years of history and includes objects ranging from large granite statues to tiny ornately carved pieces of jewelry. The collection is travelling to eight U-S cities arriving in Minneapolis in December 2002. MIA Curator Robert Jacobsen says he is particularly excited about one particular piece.
March 15, 2001 - INTRO-- The St. Paul Area Synod, which oversees Lutheran churches in the St. Paul area, will meet later this afternoon and will consider whether to suspend one of its churches. St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church is on the hot seat because it has decided to ordain Anita Hill. Hill is a lesbian woman in a committed relationship. That puts her church out of line with the ELCA, the governing body of about ten thousand lutheran churches across the country. Hill initially decided not to pursue a divinity degree because of the church's position. Then, in 1983, she joined St. Paul Reformation-- and says she found support for her wish to be ordained.
March 15, 2001 - Hundreds of Twin Cities parents are scrambling to find child care for their kids after finding out yesterday that Children's Home Society will shut down four of its sites. The news is just the latest in a growing list of daycare closings. According to The Children's Home Society, thirty childcare sites in Minnesota have shut their doors from July 1999 to June 2000. Ann Kaner-Roth (CAIN-er Roth) is the Director of Childcare Works, a non profit statewide coalition of daycare advocates. She says an employee shortage is pushing many centers out of business:
March 15, 2001 - Eric Schwartz wrote a rap about Napster and its positives.
March 19, 2001 - MPR’s Laura McCallum reports on Minnesota's eldest former Governor Elmer Andersen address to the Senate, one of only two times in recent memory a former statesman has been invited to speak on the Senate floor. Anderson’s speech was of humor and seriousness regarding the budget. The 91-year-old Andersen used his half-hour speech to reminisce about politics and criticize Governor Ventura's budget.
March 19, 2001 - The Minnesota Department of Corrections made 2-MILLION dollars last year on inmates' telephone calls. Some activists call the charges excessive, and say they amount to an unfair tax on inmates' family and friends -- many of whom are poor. State officials defend the system as a reasonable way of reducing the burden on taxpayers of supporting the state's seven thousand prisoners. Minnesota Public Radio's Jae Bryson reports.