September 22, 2000 - Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader is in Minneapolis tonight for a fundraiser and rally at the Target Center. Nader, who has been waging a media campaign to be included in the upcoming presidential debates, also took time to outline his agricultural policies during a state capitol news conference. Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo has more.
September 22, 2000 - MPR’s Laura McCallum interviews Winona LaDuke, vice-presential candidate for Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader. LaDuke discusses the Green Party platform and local support in Minnesota.
September 25, 2000 - Tom Neuville, Republican State Senator; and Ann DeGroot, director of Out Front Minnesota discuss Governor Ventura's decision to look into providing benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian state employees.
September 25, 2000 - The Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization and epidemiologists throughout the world are calling for more prudent use of antibiotics. Ever since doctors started using penicillin to kill bacterial infections in the 1940's, researchers have worried some bacteria would become resistant to antibiotics. Their fears are now coming true as scientists discover antibiotic resistant germs They say so-called "superbugs" will leave doctors defenseless against some illnesses. Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Scheck has the first of three reports...
September 26, 2000 - Minnesota Democrats say they'll make consumer privacy a core issue in the upcoming state legislative races. Last session both sides of the aisle promised to enact privacy protection measures, and now both are blaming the other side for failure to do so. Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo reports.
September 27, 2000 - Mainstreet Radio's Tim Post reports that Governor Jesse Ventura spent the day in St Cloud, talking with students at St. Cloud Tech High School about the importance of voting. Ventura says it's part of his effort to increase turn out at the polls this November. He will also raise money for the Independence Party's U.S. Senate candidate, Jim Gibson.
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September 27, 2000 - State Senator Linda Runbeck of Vadnais Heights is hoping to become the first Republican in more than half a century to represent Minnesota's Fourth Congressional District. Runbeck hopes her conservative message will appeal to the increasingly suburban Fourth District, which includes St. Paul and surrounding suburbs. She's counting on a competitive three-way race to improve her chances. In the first of our series of Fourth District candidate profiles, Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
September 27, 2000 - I'm Art Hughes in Rochester. While the DM&E project raises significant questions for communities all along the route, Rochester has consistently been the epicenter of opposition. Most cities---large and small---along the tracks have signed agreements with the railroad. But Rochester has steadfastly refused to comprimise.
September 28, 2000 - Two polls released today agree on one thing, DFLer Mark Dayton is leading Republican Rod Grams in Minnesota's US senate race. But the polls don't agree on how wide Dayton's lead is. The Pioneer Press/Minnesota Public Radio poll shows Dayton with 46% of the vote compared to 41% for Grams, while a Star Tribune poll widen's Dayton's lead to 14 percentage points with 49 percent of the vote compared with 35 percent for Grams. Steve Frank is a former political science professor and co-director of the St Cloud State University Survey, a telephone polling firm that did not produce either of these polls. He says the results are more similar than they look: