January 9, 2001 - Northwest Airlines has agreed to pay a multi-million dollar settlement to thousands of passengers who were stranded on its planes in Detroit during a snow storm two years ago. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...
January 9, 2001 - Usage of internet shopping is growing and those who do shop online are satisfied.
January 9, 2001 - Minneapolis and Saint Paul have had their share of zoning battles over adult businesses. But it's not just a big city problem. Several smaller communities around the state are now facing their own zoning disputes with strip clubs. Adult business owners say those local governements are hiding behind harsh zoning laws as a way to unfairly discriminate against their businesses. Mainstreet Radio's Marisa Helms reports.
January 9, 2001 - MPR sports commentor Jay Weiner discusses results of a stadium advisory panel created by the Minnesota Twins that say Twins owner Carl Pohlad should contribute $150 million toward a new outdoor baseball stadium. A draft report obtained by the Star Tribune from Minnesotans for Major League Baseball says that amount would cover about the half of the cost. The other half would be financed through taxes as opposed to a "direct public subsidy."
January 10, 2001 - American Airlines announced today that it will take over troubled Trans World Airlines and some U-S airways assets in a deal valued at about five (B)billion dollars. If the complicated transaction survives review by the justice department and other authorities, American will own a quarter of the U-S market, about equal to the size of its rival, United airlines. Barbara Beyer is President of AVMARK, an aviation consulting firm. She says the deal makes Northwest an attractive candidate for an aquisition or merger:
January 10, 2001 -
January 11, 2001 - MPR's William Wilcoxen reports that a citizens panel put together by the Minnesota Twins to look at the baseball team's future has finished its work. After six months of study, Minnesotans for Major League Baseball says the state risks losing the Twins unless the team gets a new ballpark combined with financial reforms in big league baseball.
January 11, 2001 - A consumer's guide to satellite radio.
January 11, 2001 - The city of Saint Paul and the Target Corporation have reached a tentative agreement to spend 20 million dollars to remodel the Dayton's store in downtown St. Paul. The money would come from Target, the city and the state. As part of the deal, the corporation would agree to keep the store open for at least ten years. Saint Paul City Council member Chris Coleman was briefed on the deal yesterday. He says it is tentative, but looks like it will be approved. Saint Paul City Council member Chris Coleman.
January 12, 2001 - Opponents of corporate agriculture say a vote to end a mandatory fee represents a major victory for family farmers. Known as the pork checkoff, the fee is collected on every hog sold and raises about 50 million dollars a year. Independent farmers with small operations say the money collected has not helped them sell more hogs, but checkoff supporters say they'll challenge the results in court. Mainstreet Radio's Mark Steil reports: The fight over the future of agriculture is mostly a behind the scenes struggle which most consumers rarely see. But the pork checkoff produced at least one bit of adverstising that most people have heard: