August 4, 1998 - On this Midday, Sheryl Ramstad Hvass and Amy Klobuchar, two candidates for Hennepin County attorney, discuss their plans for fighting crime. Topics include burglary, juvenile justice system, National Night Out, and repeat offenders. Hvass and Klobuchar also answer listener questions.
August 7, 1998 - MPR’s Euan Kerr talks with Minneapolis playwright and columnist Syl Jones about his social satire Black No More. Jones says the work is a social satire about race, gender, religion, and science.
August 11, 1998 - As part of the MPR’s Campaign 98’ series, MPR’s Laura McCallum reports on the welfare views of Jesse Ventura, Reform Party candidate for governor. Ventura comments on “welfare to work” reform, more support for those in the middle-class, and a critique of single-parents on welfare.
August 11, 1998 - John talked with the Jungle Theatre's managing director, Julie Sands and Kevin Kling about whether the Jungle theatre is folding for good now that it's losing it's lease to an adult fantasy gift shop.
August 11, 1998 - The gubanatorial candidates' last books that they read.
August 13, 1998 - A Minnesota taxpayer and a state lawmaker today filed a lawsuit seeking to recover attorneys' fees from the state's tobacco settlement. They say the nearly half-a-billion dollars awarded to the lawyers is excessive, and the money should go to the state treasury. The state's lead attorney and the Attorney General's office call the lawsuit "frivalous" and "politically motivated." Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports... Republican State Senator Tom Neuville of Northfield and financial consultant Roger Conant of Sunfish Lake say the legal fees going to the private Minneapolis law firm that handled the case are unreasonable. Conant says the 440-million dollar payment amounts to 125-dollars for every Minnesota
August 13, 1998 - Republican gubernatorial candidate Norm Coleman today (THURS) promised to put millions of dollars more into fighting gangs state-wide. Yesterday, DFLer Skip Humphrey made a similar pledge -- again, singling out gangs as a target for more law enforcement. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman responded by saying HE's the only candidate for governor who has real experience combatting crime. Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste reports on the candidates' recent focus on law and order: The race for governor has experienced a sudden rash of gang-related campaign promises. Skip Humphrey started the spree yesterday with by standing near the site of a recent fatal shooting on St Paul's Western Avenue: ((HUMPRHEY: Now that was just another case of the tragic mixture of GUNS and GANGS and DRUGS, and it leaves our citiz
August 14, 1998 - Walter Mondale, former U.S. vice president and former ambassador to Japan, talks with MPR’s Gary Eichten about the foreign service, the Asian economic crisis, and campaign finance. Mondale also answers listener questions.
August 17, 1998 - With a new Women's National Basketball Association team being formed in Minnesota for next season, MPR’s William Wilcoxen joins a crowd of women basketball fans near Detroit, Michigan to discuss their take on the WNBA. As the WNBA nears the end of their second season, it has plans to expand to Minnesota in a team that would develop into the Minnesota Lynx.
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