September 16, 1998 - Northwest Airlines is back in the air today, 19 days after the airlines' more than six thousand pilots shut it down. Although the strike is over, it will be days before Northwest is flying a normal schedule. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...
September 16, 1998 - The North Dakota's Highway Patrol today started checking Canadian trucks as they entered the state -- and warning them they might be turned back if they try to enter South Dakota. The governors of North and South Dakota are upset over what they say are unfair trade practices under NAFTA and GATT that hurt American farmers. Mainstreet Radios Dan Gunderson reports. On a typical day about 600 Canadian trucks roll through the
September 17, 1998 - Two competing portrayals of Norwest Corporation and Wells Fargo emerged in a federal researve board hearing on their proposed merger today in Minneapolis. Supporters praised the banks commitment to poor and minority communities, while critics blasted their lending and consumer banking practices. But as Minnesota PUblic Radio's Bill Catlin reports, the hearing is not expected to have much impact on whether the merger proceeds. SFX The day began with about 3 dozen protesaters from community a
September 18, 1998 - Arne Carlson, outgoing Governor of Minnesota, and William Freund, New York Stock Exchange Chief Economist Emeritus, speaking at 3rd annual Governor's Economic Summit held in St. Paul.
September 18, 1998 - Ten years ago Phillips residents defeated a plan to build a garbage plant in the Minneapolis neighborhood. This (Friday) afternoon, a group breaks ground for a new office building on the site where the garbage facility was to be built. Organizers say the fight ten years ago plant gave residents the skills to begin the rehabilitation of Phillips, one of Minneapolis' poorest neighborhoods. Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson reports. The Phillips garbage transfer station was part of the plan for a huge downtown Minneapolis garbage burning plant. Neighborhood resident Jennifer Naglack remembers the scope of the plan got peoples' attention when the bullzdozers showed up. The city had bought homes and businesses in an area of Phillips called Hungry Hollow, next to highway 55 or Hiawatha avenue and 28th street.
September 22, 1998 - A Mainstreet Radio special broadcast from Sioux Falls. Program highlights the farm crisis, and the low crop prices. Mark Steil interviews Stan Stevens, University of Minnesota Extension Economist, who shares insights on the factors playing into low prices, including weather and production risk.
September 22, 1998 - A Mainstreet Radio special broadcast from Sioux Falls. Program highlights the controversy over the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern coal train. The railroad wishes to create large expansion as coal hauler from Wyoming, through South Dakota, and into southern Minnesota. Mark Steil interviews Kevin Schieffer, president of Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad; and Paul Wilson, co-chair of Olmsted DM&E taskforce.
September 25, 1998 - With 1998 Major League Baseball season coming to a close, MPR’s William Wilcoxen looks at the gloomy outlook for Minnesota Twins as play on the field and empty seats in the Metrodome do not bode well for the future.
September 30, 1998 - "The World Turned Upside Down," an American RadioWorks documentary about deflation, with MPR's Steven Smith and Chris Farrell. Contains various interviews and commentary.
November 6, 1998 - Farmers and producers around the nation are competing for more than one-billion dollars in cash payments for land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program... The program, created in 1985, protects fragile farmland by paying selected farmers to stop growing crops on highly erodible land...as Mainstreet Radio's Hope Deutscher reports, the program is particularly tempting to some farmers during the current farm crisis... Around the nation, thousands of farmers are sitting through meetings such as this one in Barnesville...they are learning the r