October 3, 2002 - MPR's William Wilcoxen previews playoff baseball’s return to Minnesota as the Minnesota Twins host the Oakland Athletics in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series. The last post-season baseball game at the Metrodome was the Twins' Game 7 victory in the 1991 World Series. This year's team hopes to recapture some of the Twins' postseason Metrodome magic.
October 3, 2002 - DFL Senator Paul Wellstone today spoke out on the floor of the US Senate against unilateral US action against Iraq. Wellstone says he will vote 'no' on the use-of-force resolution the White House is requesting. Republican leaders say it's a dangerous vote for Wellstone, who's in a tough re-election race with Republican Norm Coleman. Coleman supports the administration's proposed resolution. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...
October 4, 2002 - Well, there is one epidemic that the state doesn't need any statistics to confirm... Twins Fever. 55,000 baseball fans will fill the Metrodome for Game 3 of playoff series against Oakland A’s. If previous post season games are any indication, the noise those fans make will give the Twins a big advantage.
October 7, 2002 - What do MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and the Oakland A's have in common? Both failed to eliminate the Minnesota Twins in 2002. Behind a dominating performance from starting pitcher Brad Radke, the Twins beat A’s 5-4 in the fifth and deciding game of the divisional playoffs. The Twins now advance to the American League Championship Series.
October 7, 2002 - DFL Senator Paul Wellstone today (Mon) announced he has received the endorsement of the nation's most powerful veterans' association. The Veterans of Foreign Wars' national political action committee is backing Wellstone in his tight reelection contest against Republican Norm Coleman. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...
October 7, 2002 - The Twin Cities suburbs are a key battleground for DFL US Senator Paul Wellstone. Polls show Wellstone and his Republican challenger Norm Coleman are running neck and neck statewide, but that Wellstone is trailing Coleman in the suburbs. The same polls show Wellstone enjoys a lead in rural Minnesota. Earlier this campaign season we looked at what Coleman's doing to appeal to non-metro voters. Now Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik has a report on Wellstone's strategy in the suburbs. ANCHOR TAG "For much more on the Senate race, including our story about Republican Norm Coleman's efforts to win votes in rural Minnesota, go to the campaign 2002 section out of website at Minnesota-Public-Radio -dot- O-R-G."
October 7, 2002 - An excerpt of Garrison Keillor speaking about his serious case of "Twins Fever" during during A Prairie Home Companion show.
October 7, 2002 - Minneapolis writer Norah Labiner's (Lab-in-er's) new novel "Miniatures" takes readers into the lives of a reclusive literary couple. Owen Leib {Lee-ib} has returned to Ireland after years of self-imposed exile. Owen fled to Paris after his first wife, Franny, supposedly committed suicide in 1964. There are rumors surrounding Franny's unpublished second novel--and speculation about the circumstances surrounding her death. I spoke to Labiner about her book--and the unusual way she began the novel. "Miniatures" begins with a list of how many famous people met their untimely demise--from F. Scott Fitzgerald's death while eating a chocolate bar--to Virginia's Woolf's suicidal drowning.
October 7, 2002 - Lavelle Neal, who covers the Twins for the Star Tribune, talks about the Minnesota Twins winning American League Division Series against Oakland A’s…and what lies ahead in American League Championship Series against Anaheim Angels.
October 7, 2002 - Minneapolis writer Norah Labiner's new novel "Miniatures" takes readers into the lives of a reclusive literary couple. Owen Leib has returned to Ireland after years of self-imposed exile. Owen fled to Paris after his first wife, Franny, supposedly committed suicide in 1964. There are rumors surrounding Franny's unpublished second novel--and speculation about the circumstances surrounding her death. I spoke to Labiner about her book--and the unusual way she began the novel. "Miniatures" begins with a list of how many famous people met their untimely demise--from F. Scott Fitzgerald's death while eating a chocolate bar--to Virginia's Woolf's suicidal drowning.