January 12, 2001 - The National Mediation Board has broken off talks between Northwest Airlines and its mechanics union, a day sooner than their scheduled conclusion. Contract negotiations that have spanned more than 4 years are again in limbo ... suggesting an agreement between the airline and a powerful labor group remains far off. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Catlin reports.
January 12, 2001 - Target Corporation today announced it's adopting the Marshall Fields name for all of its high end department stores, and dropping the Dayton's and Hudson's name. The company says the name change will allow it to focus on a single brand. For Minnesotans the decision will mark the end of a nearly century old shopping tradition. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...
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January 15, 2001 - Concern that recent court rulings against internet software robots could restrict public access to the internet.
January 16, 2001 - The Twin Cities' Metropolitan Airports Commission took a small step today (Tuesday) toward building a link with the Rochester airport as a way to ease congestion. The commission agreed to spend 25-thousand dollars to see if the idea has any support. Minnesota Public Radio's Art Hughes reports. {Rochester airport officials have been busy in recent years developing their facility. One runway was recently lengthened to 75-hundred feet and another is scheduled to be expanded to nine thousand feet to accomodate larger planes. Rochester has a new cargo facility, the main terminal is being expanded and just this week TWA began flights to St. Louis. Rochester Senator Shiela Kiscaden appeared before the Minneapolis-St.Paul Airports Commission to begin what she calls a 'formal alliance' to see whether Rochester and the Twin Cities can compliment each other's air traffic needs.
January 16, 2001 - Throughout the country people are losing their jobs as companies struggle with decreased sales. Rising energy costs, a sagging stock market, and declining consumer confidence threaten to derail the nation's longest economic expansion. The incoming Bush administration is using the threat of RECESSION... to bolster the argument for massive tax cuts. And the Federal Reserve Bank has begun cutting interest rates. Local economists say as the nation goes SO TOO does Minnesota. Layoffs are hitting this region... people who assist dislocated workers say they're busier now than they've been in nearly a decade. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...
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January 16, 2001 - From Minnesota Public Radio, this is Future Tense for January 16th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today...do we expect too much from Internet companies when it comes to protecting our privacy? A Microsoft executive says yes. First...this news. Hoping to boost sagging profits, wireless giant Motorola will shut down its only U-S cellphone factory and lay off about 2,500 plant employees. The jobs being cut in Harvard, Ill., represent nearly 2 percent of Motorola's work force of 130,000. Motorola has pledged
January 17, 2001 - MPR's Andrew Haeg presents various local viewpoints on the telecommunication regulations debate. The Ventura administration wants to dramatically change the way the state regulates telecommunications. The goal is to foster competition for telephone and cable customers throughout the state, and, by doing so affordable and advanced services to all Minnesotans.