January 18, 2001 - Northwest Airlines is reporting rising profits and revenues in the fourth quarter and the full year -- despite labor problems, higher fuel costs and severe winter weather. But the coming year brings additional challenges, including the slowing economy AND the possibility it could get swept up in the trend toward airline mergers. Minnesota Public Radio's Andrew Haeg reports.
January 18, 2001 - From Minnesota Public Radio this is Future Tense for January 18th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today, unloading a whole life on eBay. ((tease cut)) Last year, John Freyer of Iowa City, Iowa came to the conlcusion he owned too many things. So he decided to sell a few items on eBay. Make that a lot of things: Freyer--an artist and University of Iowa graduate student--is trying to sell just about everything he owns. What started as an effort to reduce clutter has turned into a full-blown exercise in interactive multimedia art. Freyer's Web site --allmylifeforsale.com-- has links to what he's selling on eBay...and explains how he wants to track all the things he's sold, and maybe even take a road trip to visit his old stuff. He's unloading some everyday things like clothes and furniture...but nothing is sacred.
January 22, 2001 - THE BAD NEWS JUST KEEPS COMING FOR MINNESOTA'S IRON RANGE. NOW, NATIONAL STEEL PELLET, IN KEEWATIN, SAYS IT'LL LAYOFF TEN WORKERS BY THE END OF THE WEEK....15 WERE LAID OFF EARLIER THIS MONTH. IN NEARBY HOYT LAKES, 14-HUNDRED JOBS WERE LOST WHEN LTV STEEL CLOSED FOR GOOD, AND IN EVELETH, ALMOST 500 JOBS COULD BE ON THE LINE IF EVTAC CLOSES BECAUSE IT CAN'T GET BANK LOANS OR INSURANCE COVERAGE. MINNESOTA'S TACONITE INDUSTRY HAS ALWAYS RUN IN CYCLES, BUT SOME ON THE RANGE WONDER IF THIS DOWNTOWN IS WORSE THAN OTHERS. ECONOMICS PROFESSOR RICK LICK-TEE TEACHES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-DULUTH AND HE SAYS A SLOWING ECONOMY IS ONLY PART OF THE PROBLEM.
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January 22, 2001 - The push to use reusable energy is building up at the Capitol.
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January 23, 2001 - Parts of Northern California may be hit with more blackouts this morning as officials scrounge for electricity. Efforts continue to find a long-term solution to the problem. A proposal crafted over the weekend would allow the state to take over hydro-electric facilities, currently owned by cash-strapped utilities. California's energy crisis is the result of both deregulation and an energy shortage. Linda Taylor is the Deputy Commissioner for Energy at the Minnesota Department of Commerce. She says we shouldn't see anything like the California crisis here in Minnesota-- but we ARE facing a shortage of our own.
January 24, 2001 - MPR’s Michael Khoo reports on reaction to Governor Ventura’s released budget plan which tightens the fiscal reins. When Governor Jesse Ventura took his first stab at the budgeting process two years ago, he acknowledged many of his proposals were based on former-Governor Arne Carlson's work, but Ventura is describing his latest effort as entirely his own. The plan calls for more than a billion dollars in tax relief and holds spending to about the level of inflation.
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January 24, 2001 - St. Paul has picked off five hundred jobs from Minneapolis. Today a company called Personnel Decisions International announced plans to move across the river into St. Paul office buildings owned by the Minnesota Life Insurance company. St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman says the new jobs mark a continuation of the city's turnaround and are worth the one and a half million dollar subsidy the city is giving the company. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...