November 2, 2000 - Paying for Napster. BMG is joining Napster and is going to sell music online.
November 3, 2000 - The "Citizens' Ad Police" were on patrol again this week, critiquing some of the campaign ads blanketing the airwaves. M-P-R ad analyst Dean Alger gathered a group of six Twin Cities residents to watch the latest ads in hotly-contested Congressional races, and a few commercials for Independence Party candidates. In the last of our series of Ad Watches for campaign 2000, Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
November 6, 2000 -
November 6, 2000 - Questions on social security dominated the final debate between Minnesota's three major U.S. Senate candidates, Republican Rod Grams, Independence party candidate James Gibson and D-F-Ler Mark Dayton. With just a day to go before the elections, the atmosphere among the candidates at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul was spirited and sometimes tense, with an unusually rowdy audience adding to the mix. Minnesota Public Radio's Amy Radil reports.
November 6, 2000 -
November 6, 2000 - Chris Farrell talks about the election's effect on the market.
November 7, 2000 - It's an ancient craft borne of necessity and repleat with spirtual meaning. It's brain tanning, a craft Native Americans used to make the buckskin needed for clothes and moccasins. But it's a dying craft, with only a few remaining practitioners. Mainstreet Radios Bob Reha met a Fargo woman who is keeping the tradition alive. Sheila Sears Degrewshleler's interest in hide tanning began 12 years ago. She was talking to the curator of a local museum about repairing her daughters moccasins.
November 7, 2000 - Advances in computing technology continues at a tremendous pace, producing ever more spectacular graphics and animated images which amaze and confound. Tomorrow in Minneapolis those on the cutting edge of the industry will gather at the eleventh Minnesota Electronic Theatre showcase to show the latest uses of technology in film, advertising, and interactive games. Things may be good in the industry but Minnesota Public Radio's Marianne Combs reports local talent is struggling to get business.
November 9, 2000 -
November 9, 2000 - Best Buy stock plunged almost 40 percent today after the company announced profits will be lower than expected ...largely because of increasing competition in electronics retailing. The problems at Best Buy are just one sign of a tougher environment for retailers this holiday season. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...