August 1, 2001 - A Twin Cities technology company is close to pulling off what's become a difficult feat since the bursting of the dot-com bubble: it has lined up a significant chunk of new financing. As Minnesota Public Radio's Jon Gordon reports, the deal could save Eagan-based Wam!Net from the same disaster that has befallen many other Internet-related firms. Wam!Net, which handles data networks for corporate and government clients, doesn't SEEM like a success story. It's lost more than half a billion dollars since its inception in 1994, and the company laid off 20 percent of its employees earlier this year. But Wam!Net co-founder and CEO Ed Driscoll says New York City venture capital firm Cerberus Capital Management, which specializes in funding troubled comapnies, has agreed to provide 115 million dollars in operating capital.
August 1, 2001 - MPR’s Kaomi Goetz reports that some members of Minneapolis immigrant communities are asking whether they're getting undue scrutiny from city inspectors.
August 2, 2001 - When the Rochester Post-Bulletin started charging its online readers a couple months ago, other newspaper publishers around the country sat up and took notice. In these times of consolidation and conglomeration, regional papers are looking for creative ways to keep growing. Mainstreet Radio's Laurel Druley has this report.
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August 3, 2001 - Lots of Minnesotans will be heading to a small town in western New York this weekend. They'll make a pilgrimmage to the Baseball Hall of Fame, where two of MInnesota's own -- a Saint Paul native and a twelve-year Twin -- will be enshrined among the sport's all-time greats. Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen has this report on Dave Winfield and Kirby Puckett, two of the newest arrivals in Cooperstown...
August 6, 2001 - Plaques of Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield now hang just a few feet from those of Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Puckett and Winfield were inducted yesterday (Sun) in Cooperstown, New York, and many Minnesotans were on hand to mark the occasion. Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen reports...
August 7, 2001 - A new study ranks the Twin Cities as the ninth in the nation for high tech. The study by the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the University of Minnesota uses a broad definition of the term high tech. It says Chicago has the largest number of high tech jobs, followed by Washington DC, the Silicon Valley, and Boston. Professor Ann Markusen is one of the authors of the study.
August 9, 2001 -
August 9, 2001 - Tonight one last batch of greyhounds will burst through the gates at St. Croix Meadows Greyhound Track in Hudson, Wisconsin. The owner has decided to shut it down due to consistent financial losses and his desire to put a casino on the site. Minnesota Public Radio's Patty Marsicano reports: