March 5, 2002 - Minnesotans will gather in community centers and schools across the state tonight (TUESDAY) for precinct caucuses. The meetings are the first step in selecting candidates for the 2002 election. In advance of the caucuses, two Republican candidates for governor - Tim Pawlenty and Brian Sullivan - have been running ads to introduce themselves to voters. In the first in a series of Ad Watches, Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum asks an advertising expert to critique the latest spots...
March 5, 2002 - Cosmos does not have laws on the books to regulate an adult business.
March 7, 2002 - TWIN CITIES SOMALI COMMUNITY LEADERS SAY THEY ARE VERY CONCERNED THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS DEPORTED TEN SOMALIS...WITH FIVE MORE FACING POSSIBLE DEPORTATION. FEDERAL OFFICIALS SAY THE INDIVIDUALS WERE TAKEN, WITH OTHER SOMALIS, AND FLOWN TO MOGADISHU FEBRUARY 14TH. OFFICIALS SAY 8 OF THE TEN DEPORTEES FROM MINNESOTA HAD BEEN ARRESTED FROM 1999 THROUGH JANAURY OF THIS YEAR FOR OFFENSES RANGING FROM SEX CRIMES TO DRUGS TO ASSAULTS. THE OTHER TWO HAD, ALLEGEDLY, ENTERED THE U-S ILLEGALLY. OSMAN SAH-HAR-DEE, THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE SOMALI COMMUNITY OF MINNESOTA, SAYS HE'S STILL TRYING TO FIND OUT MORE INFORMATIONS ABOUT THE DEPORTATIONS.
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March 8, 2002 - Indiana-based Guidant Corporation is planning to double the size of its operations in the Twin Cities over the next 20 years. The medical technology company's Cardiac Rhythm Management, or C-R-M group is based in Arden Hills. It employs almost 25-hundred people. Guidant's plans are the topic of an article in today's edition of the journal City Business. Sam Black is the reporter who wrote the piece. He says the Guidant campus COULD grow into one of the biggest in the Twin Cities.
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March 13, 2002 - Minnesota Airlines, a investor group that plans to buy bankrupt Sun Country Airlines says it could begin pumping cash into Sun County as early as this afternoon . Yesterday a federal judge cleared the way for US Bank to sell secured assets to the new investor group. Had Sun Country not won court approval for the sale, the cash-strapped airline would have faced another shutdown. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...
March 14, 2002 - A relatively small, regional railroad, the Dakota Minnesota and Eastern, has a bold plan to expand its range. The proposal takes the DM&E into the Powder River Basin coal fields and requires more than 250 miles of new track in Western South Dakota and Eastern Wyoming. Opponents have sprung up along that new section of railway. They are ranchers concerned about tracks cutting through their land and Native Americans who say the project will trample all over treaty rights. As our series "Tracking the Plains" continues, South Dakota Public Radio's Joshua Welsh reports another point of opposition may be found just under the surface of the ground.
March 14, 2002 - The President of the Dakota Minnesota and Eastern Railroad was in Rochester last evening making the case for a 1and half billion dollar expansion. A few hundred people turned out to hear him defend a plan that could bring as many as 3-dozen high-speed coal trains through town. Two months ago a federal regulatory board approved the DME's upgrade. Rochester and the Mayo Clinic responded by filing suit in federal court arguing the ambitious project will hurt the city. Last evening's forum made it clear, this is an issue that will most likely be resolved in court. Minnesota Public Radio's Erin Galbally reports
March 15, 2002 - A group of Twin Cities business and government leaders gathered last night to promote an approach to economic development based on industry clusters. The idea is to improve the state's economic vitality by nurturing industries that already have a concentration in Minnesota, such as medical technology. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Catlin reports.