October 12, 1998 - Recovery from a natural disaster takes time. Months and years can go by before life seems normal again. Minnesota Public Radio's Lynette Nyman returned to Saint Peter to see how people are doing just six months after the tornado disaster. She met with Saint Peter resident and business owner Nancy Jordett . Nancy Jordett is busy these days. She's rebuilding her life. Her home has a new roof. Her business...more than six months after the storm, is still in the basement of an employee's home. Her family? She says they're fine, but she says summer was a challenge.
November 5, 1998 - Although the cause of the split limbs, extra legs, missing eyes and other frog deformities reported from Minnesota and many other states is still unknown, evidence linking deformed frogs and farm chemicals continues to mount. Researchers will discuss those findings and others in San Diego this week at a conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Minnesota Public Radio's Mary Losure reports. When researcher Martin Ouellet first began finding deformed frogs along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec in 1992, he suspected a link betw
November 6, 1998 - Farmers and producers around the nation are competing for more than one-billion dollars in cash payments for land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program... The program, created in 1985, protects fragile farmland by paying selected farmers to stop growing crops on highly erodible land...as Mainstreet Radio's Hope Deutscher reports, the program is particularly tempting to some farmers during the current farm crisis... Around the nation, thousands of farmers are sitting through meetings such as this one in Barnesville...they are learning the r
November 9, 1998 - ** NOTE: Anchor outcue ** For the last two weeks, feedlots have been the topic of conversation in many Minnesota communities. A series of public comment meetings are generating material for a comprehensive study on animal agriculture. One issue guaranteed to get attention is odor from animal feedlots; however, the focus of the discussion is shifting. A recent courtcase in Pope County has drawn attention to the "cumulative impact" of feedlot odors...one issue which may be the next big hurdle in the state's approach to feedlot regulation. Mainstreet Radio's Gretchen Lehmann reports. ANCHOR OUTCUE: The final public comment meeting on large-scal
November 10, 1998 - MPR’s Mark Steil reports from Worthington, detailing stranded motorists and power outages as a blizzard moves through Minnesota, with up to a foot of snow.
November 10, 1998 - TO FOLLOW STEIL'S PIECE To the north.... The Highway Patrol has closed parts of Interstate 29 because of vehicles in the ditch and poor visibility. The patrol says southbound Interstate 29 is closed from Grand Forks, and northbound Interstate 29 is closed from Hillsboro. Interstate 94 eastbound is closed temporarily out of Mandan because of jackknifed semi. The storm is now reaching across Northern parts of our region. Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Robertson reports from Bemidji...
November 11, 1998 - Hundreds - perhaps thousands - of resumes are pouring into Jesse Ventura's transition office at the state Capitol. Republicans, Democrats, and independents are all hoping to be part of the Governor-elect's new administration. Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports... The tight entryway to Ventura's basement transition office is often crammed with job-seekers, well-wishers and reporters... (nat - phone ringing, crowd buzz) 28-year-old Tom Klawiter (CLAW-water) dropped off his resume...
November 11, 1998 - (LEAD MAY NEED TO BE CHANGED DEPENDING ON TONIGHT'S ///SFX: Weather forecast over MnDOT radio...fade under/// NARRATION: At MnDOT's
November 11, 1998 - An early season winter storm left too little snow to open northeast Minnesota snowmobile or ski trails; but it did lift spirits of business people hard hit last year's mild winter. Minnesota Public Radio's Bob Kelleher reports: The difference between "El Nino" and "La Nina" could mean millions of dollars for Northern Minnesota. Last year "El Nino" brought dry pleasant and relatively snow-free conditions to Northern Minnesota. Climatoligists are predicting "La Nina" will produce the opposite, bringing much colder weather than normal and an extra punch of snow. That's the best of news for the region's ski hills, winter resorts and many small business people across the state. Duluth Lawn and Sport relies on snowmobiles and sn
November 12, 1998 - Engineers and biologists have known for a long time that changes made to the Mississippi River's natural flow to facilitate barge traffic, are harming its overall health. Since 1986, federal and state agencies have experimented with ways to stem the loss of land formations, plants and other things that wild animals need to thrive. One of the most successful of these efforts is a series of man-made islands. Mainstreet Radio's Art Hughes visited the newly-built islands near Stoddard, Wisconsin. boat motor start)