June 6, 2002 - MPR's Tom Scheck reports that members of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission could vote on a proposed settlement with Major League Baseball and the Minnesota Twins. The commission, which owns and operates the Metrodome, filed suit against the two entities after the league announced that it wanted to eliminate two teams. No teams were named, but the Twins were considered a top candidate.
June 7, 2002 - The June edition of MPR's Voices of Minnesota series, featuring Alexander Braginsky of the ePiano competition, and St. Olaf Choir Director Anton Armstrong. MPR’s Dan Olson presents profiles and interviews of the two artists.
June 7, 2002 - MPR’s Laurel Druley reports on two Minnesota teams competing in the 2002 National Women's Division One Rugby Championship, being held in Rochester, Minnesota. Six other teams from across the country are also competing in what is Rochester’s first time hosting a national tournament.
June 7, 2002 - MPR’s Michael Khoo reports that Governor Jesse Ventura departs for a week-long trade mission to China. Roughly 100 government and business leaders will join Ventura to help promote Minnesota products and services in the world's most populous country.
June 7, 2002 - MPR presents a series of reports "Reading, Writing and Revenue," which looks at Minneosta schools' funding crunch. MPR’s Tim Pugmire looks at the discussion on potential long-term financial solutions for Minnesota school districts.
June 11, 2002 - American RadioWorks presents a documentary short “Kay Fulton’s Diary.” Fulton began this intimate diary of a sister who loses a brother to terrorism in the weeks leading up to the subesquent execution of terrorist.
June 11, 2002 - Governor Jesse Ventura has just finished a meeting with high-level Chinese officials to discuss the future of trade relations between Minnesota and China. The meeting comes on Ventura's third day in China where he's on a week-long mission to promote Minnesota products and services. Earlier in the day Ventura toured a Hormel processing plant and held it up as a success story. MPR's Michael Khoo is on the road with the governor and he joins us now from Beijing. For much more on the Governor's trip to China, visit our web site, Minnesota Public Radio dot org. The time is 25 minutes past 7:00.
June 11, 2002 - NOTE: HOST OUTCUE) HOST: Governor Jesse Ventura is once again on the move. He'll head from Beijing, China, to Shanghai late tonight (TUESDAY) for the next leg of his week-long Chinese trade mission. Earlier today Minnesota time, Ventura sat down with top-level Chinese government officials to lay out a road map for further economic cooperation between Minnesota and China. Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo is traveling with the governor and has this report.
June 11, 2002 - St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter and architecture critic Larry Millett is retiring after 30 years with the paper. Millett began writing a column on architecture and design in the mid-1980's, after a prairie school exhibit at Landmark Center stirred up an interest in architecture he had had since childhood. In the late 1980's, Millett wrote a series of columns on historic buildings the city had torn down, which he turned into a book called "Lost Twin Cities." Millett published his last column today. He says when he started at the paper, downtown St. Paul was in the throws of massive downtown urban renewal.
June 12, 2002 - MPR's Laura McCallum reports that Minnesota Republicans will be endorsing a candidate for governor and the race is a close one between entrepreneur Brian Sullivan and legislative leader Tim Pawlenty. Sullivan holds a slight lead in the party's non-binding straw polls of delegates.