December 8, 2000 - The recent E coli outbreak in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa has renewed calls by some food safety experts for improved ways of protecting the food supply. One proposal gaining support in some quarters is the creation of a single federal agency to oversee food safety. The idea is to replace the plethora of federal and state agencies now charged with the responsibility. Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Scheck reports...
December 8, 2000 - Rod Grams and Mark Dayton on how they want to spend the state budget.
December 12, 2000 - Tease Cut. Congressman Minge-Florida is a circus, nothing like Minnesota . Congressman Kennedy-Minnesotans can be proud of our process . There are no hanging chads in Minnesota--but as the Minge-Kennedy race makes clear, we do have some very close elections. Yet when elections are tight, the Minnesota experience is far different than events unfolding in Florida. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Buzenberg has been watching the post-election contests in both states, and takes a look at how these two extremely close elections have been sorted out:
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December 12, 2000 - Newly elected Minnesota Senator Mark Dayton made one of his first public appearances today in Rochester. Last week the freshman Democrat was in Washington for senate orientation. Minnesota Public Radio's Erin Galbally reports.
December 12, 2000 - MPR’s Laura McCallum reports that the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Employee Relations says Governor Ventura's new job as an XFL analyst is NOT a conflict of interest. The Governor's office says the decision confirms what Ventura has argued all along, while critics of the Governor's outside earnings say the decision lacks credibility, because it was made by a Ventura appointee.
December 13, 2000 - Republican Mark Kennedy, the Congressman-elect from Minnesota's Second District. You can hear more from him today on Midday at 11:00. While yesterday was a happy day for Republicans like Kennedy, it was disappointing one for Democrats like Minnesota DFL Chair Mike Erlandson. He says the Supreme Court decision was not as decisive as he had hoped it would be.
December 13, 2000 - Fifth District Congressman Martin Sabo.
December 13, 2000 - If you turned on your television at 9 o'clock last night, you caught sight of an unusual spectacle. Reporters on every major network were already commenting on a complicated Supreme Court ruling they hadn't yet had a chance to read. Many got the story wrong, and only slowly came to realize what the decision really meant. Matthew Felling is Media Director of the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington D-C. I asked him what he thought of last night's coverage:
December 13, 2000 - Many are saying it's time for Al Gore to concede after last night's decision by the U-S Supreme Court. Yesterday, Second District D-F-L Congressman David Minge conceded and halted a recount in his race against Republican challenger Mark Kennedy. Minge had called for a recount after the certified vote totals gave Kennedy a victory margin of only 155 votes, but Minge determined yestreday that even if the vast majority of disputed ballots went in his favor, he would not have enough to win. Joining us now is Congress-elect Mark Kennedy.