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January 7, 1998 - Minnesota Attorney General Skip Humphrey may be investigating Major League Baseball. Commissioner Bud Selig and Twins owner Carl Pohlad say they've received questionnaires from Humphrey's office that indicate he's interested in challenging Baseball's 76-year-old anti-trust-exemption. The exemption allows baseball to operate as a monopoly, and many of baseball's critics say it makes it easier for teams to pressure taxpayers for financial help, as the Twins did last year.
January 9, 1998 - The latest cold blast brings an eye-watering focus back to our winter, which has been so unseasonably mild so far. While many of us have celebrated the nice weather by brazen tee-shirt-wearing, the warm weather has meant many different things to people in our region. With the thermometer plunging we went out to get a sampling.
January 11, 1998 - Twenty mushers expect a good trail and cold temperatures today as the 15th annual John Beargrease Sled Dog Race gets underway at 1:00. A snowfall of 4 to 6 inches on Friday was too little too late for race officials. A lack of snow earlier forced race officials to move the start and finish of the race north to Grand Portage. Officials also shortened the course by about 200 miles. Vicki Trauba is the Executive Director of the Race.
January 13, 1998 - Jamie Nelson of Togo, Minnesota, won her fourth John Beargrease Sled Dog Race today. The defending champion crossed the finish line in Grand Portage at 10:25 this morning. This year's race was just a bit more than half the usual distance. Lack of snow forced organizers to move the race from Duluth to Grand Portage, and shorten the route. Nelson says mushers and dogs still fought hard to cross the two-hundred and sixty two miles to the finish line.
January 13, 1998 - At first blush, a plan to take a century-old theater in downtown Minneapolis ... put it on a giant truck and move it three blocks down Hennepin Avenue, sounds a little crazy. But the group that is pushing the plan has a knack for the gargantuan. Artspace Projects which already operates the Hennepin Center for the Arts wants to save the historic theater from demolition and provide the city with a new performance space. Whether that makes financial sense is still a question. But as Mary Stucky reports, Artspace has acheived the near impossible before.
January 13, 1998 - President Clinton has announced plans to spend nearly 30-million dollars on training more computer programmers. According to a study conducted by Virginia Tech, one out of every 10 technology jobs in the United States is left unfilled. The President's plan comes as welcome news to many Minnesota employers who have been scrambling to find enough computer-literate employees.
January 14, 1998 - MPR’s Leif Enger reports on cold weather tourism on the Gun Flint Trail, and the debates of what exactly that should be. Report includes various interviews and commentary.
January 16, 1998 - Music, English, Drama and Religion scholars will gather at Stanford University to deconstruct the work of one of Minnesota's most famous sons, Bob Dylan. The conference is billed as "The First U.S. Bob Dylan Conference" and will focus on Dylan's art and cultural legacy. MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews Tino Markworth, organizer of conference.