September 26, 2005 - About 400 people gathered in the woods outside Eveleth Sunday. They came to dedicate a memorial to Senator Paul Wellstone. Wellstone, his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia Markuson, and three staff members were killed in a plane crash nearby, nearly three years ago. Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Hemphill reports. {
September 26, 2005 - Supporters and political allies of the late Senator Paul Wellstone gathered near Eveleth over the weekend to dedicate a memorial and historic site. The memorial is built in the woods near where a small plane crashed nearly three years ago, killing Wellstone, his wife and daughter, and three members of his staff. Lisa Boulay (BOO-LAY) volunteered for Wellstone's Senate campaigns. She came from Bemidji for the dedication.
September 26, 2005 - About 400 people gathered to dedicate the Wellstone Memorial and Historic Site near Eveleth Sunday. The memorial is built in the woods near where Senator Paul Wellstone and seven others died in a plane crash three years ago. Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Hemphill reports. {
September 26, 2005 - Governor Pawlenty today (MON) challenged other states to boost their ethanol consumption. He told a meeting of the Governors' Ethanol Coalition that the corn-based fuel will reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil. The group consists of 31 states and 5 countries that support ethanol. But unlike Minnesota, few of them mandate ethanol use. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
September 27, 2005 - Minnesota-born journalist and Washington insider Al Eisele stepped down this September as editor of the influential political newspaper he co-founded, "The Hill." Eisele's career traced a broad arc, from dabbling in minor league baseball, to covering the White House, to working there as press secretary for Vice President Walter Mondale.
September 30, 2005 - MPR’s Brandt Williams reports that the Minnesota Twins 2005 season ends during upcoming weekend game at the Metrodome. For the first time in three years, the team will not finish at the top of their division or go to the playoffs. Instead, Twins players and many fans will spend this fall and winter pondering what went wrong and what the team will have to do to make a stronger showing next season.
October 3, 2005 - Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson is being remembered today as a literary giant who did more to bring the African American experience to the stage than any other writer. Wilson died yesterday in Seattle from liver cancer. He was 60-years-old. As Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Roberts reports, Wilson's passing is being deeply felt in the Twin Cities, where he lived and wrote for nearly 12 years.
October 3, 2005 - Playwright August Wilson is being remembered as a giant of the American Theatre. Wilson died of liver cancer in Seattle yesterday at the age of 60. He moved to St. Paul in 1978 where he got his first paying job as a writer, composing educational scripts for the Science Museum of Minnesota. During his time in Minnesota Wilson began writing the set of plays that would make him famous. The ten-play cycle chronicled the black experience in America. In a 1991 speech to the University of Minnesota Alumni Association, Wilson fondly remembered the 12-years he lived in St. Paul.
October 3, 2005 - Tom Crann interviews Minnesota writer Ann Bauer about her book "A Wild Ride up the Cupboards," a story of how one family struggles with their son's withdrawal, and how his parents, Jack and Rachel, make sense of it in their own ways.
October 3, 2005 - August Wilson moved to St. Paul in 1978 where he got his first paying job as a writer, composing educational scripts for the Science Museum of Minnesota. He lived here until 1990 and it was during that time that he began writing the set of plays that would make him famous. In 1991, Minnesota Public Radio aired a documentary about the playwright and his work. It is called "August Wilson's Sacred Book." Here is an excerpt narrated by Beth Friend.