March 17, 2004 -
March 18, 2004 - Mainstreet Radio’s Annie Baxter reports on a Long Prairie radio program that is reaching out to the town's burgeoning Hispanic population.
March 22, 2004 - MPR’s William Wilcoxen reports on Victory Sports One, the Twins' new network. Nearly two-thirds of the Twins' games will be televised on the new network that is currently unavailable to most Minnesotans. Wilcoxen looks at the standoff between the Twins' new network and the region's leading cable and satellite providers.
March 23, 2004 -
March 23, 2004 -
March 23, 2004 - U-S health officials say patients taking anti-depressants should be closely monitored for signs of suicidal thoughts. The Food and Drug Administration stressed that it's still not clear if there's a connection between antidepressants and suicide, but yesterday it called on drug makers to put stronger warnings on their labels. The drugs under scrutiny are all newer-generation antidepressants including Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, and Wellbutrin. Dr. Jon Hallberg says the call for new warnings reinforces the notion that doctors and manufacturers need to give patients more information about the drugs they're taking.
March 23, 2004 - The University of Minnesota women's basketball team faces Kansas State tonight for the chance to go to the NCAA's Sweet Sixteen next weekend. Win or lose, it will be the final Williams Arena appearance by the Gophers' seniors --- including All-American guard Lindsay Whalen of Hutchinson. Whalen has been the glue that held her team together under three coaches in four years. With her teammates, including senior Kadidja was there on Sunday. He says the performance was remarkable.
March 24, 2004 -
March 24, 2004 - runs Twin Cities gas prices - dot- com, a website that compares gas prices throughout the region. Toews also runs similar websites for other cities around the country. He says that local gas prices have not hit record levels --- yet.
March 29, 2004 - When the public learned this year that Northwest Airlines once gave passenger data to a government agency, it added heat to the national debate over a new airline passenger screening system. Testing and implementing the system is shaping up as one of the great homeland security challenges. In the first of a two-part series, Minnesota Public Radio's Jeff Horwich looks at why -- more than two years after 9-11 -- passenger screening has barely pulled away from the gate.