October 30, 2000 - Sixteen hundred workers are on strike at the Frigidaire plant in St Cloud. They say a pay raise in a recent contract offering is cancelled out by an increase in insurance premiums. Company officials have remained quiet on the issue.
November 1, 2000 - in Minneapolis. Bush stressed tax cuts, and attacked Democratic opponent Al Gore as a big spender who's achieved little as vice president. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
November 1, 2000 - The Minneapolis-St Paul airport, by all indications, will reach its compacity in 20 years, some say sooner. The Metropolitan Airports Commission wants to develop a system of satellite, so-called reliever airports to help ease the congestion in the Twin Cities. But as Mainstreet Radio's Tim Post tell us, some of the state's regional Airports will need improvements before they can take much more business.
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.