November 2, 2000 - Northeast Minnesota is being targeted not only by the presidential campaigns, but also by the leading state candidates for U-S Senate. Rod Grams and Mark Dayton both stumped hard in Duluth today, five days before the elections. Minnesota Public Radio's Bob Kelleher reports: {t's clear Republican Rod Grams considers Minnesota's arrowhead important to his re-election chances. Grams is a regular visitor and has pushed popular local issues including protections for the motorized recreation dear to many in this region.}
November 2, 2000 - Throughout this campaign, candidates for the U S Senate in Minnesota have campaigned on the issue of a "Patient's Bill of Rights." In this age of managed care, politicians have tapped into consumers concern that health care decisions will be decided solely by an HMO rather than a doctor. The three U-S Senate Candidates all agree that a national "patients bill of rights" needs to be established, but they disagree on the specifics. Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Scheck reports...
November 2, 2000 - If you've been paying attention at all to this year's senate campaign, you've been hearing quit a bit of talk about taxes. And much of the discussion has been about what should be done with projected mutli-trillion dollar federal surplus. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports on what the three major party candidates are saying about taxes in general and SPECIFICALLY how their proposing to spend the surplus.
November 3, 2000 - The three major candidate for US Senate fanned out across the state today to get out the vote and pick up last-minute support before next Tuesday's election. We begin our coverage of the Senate race with Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo who spent the day with DFLer Mark Dayton.
November 3, 2000 - The "Citizens' Ad Police" were on patrol again this week, critiquing some of the campaign ads blanketing the airwaves. M-P-R ad analyst Dean Alger gathered a group of six Twin Cities residents to watch the latest ads in hotly-contested Congressional races, and a few commercials for Independence Party candidates. In the last of our series of Ad Watches for campaign 2000, Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports...
November 6, 2000 - Questions on social security dominated the final debate between Minnesota's three major U.S. Senate candidates, Republican Rod Grams, Independence party candidate James Gibson and D-F-Ler Mark Dayton. With just a day to go before the elections, the atmosphere among the candidates at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul was spirited and sometimes tense, with an unusually rowdy audience adding to the mix. Minnesota Public Radio's Amy Radil reports.
November 6, 2000 - MPR’s Tim Post reports on the 1,600 Frigidaire who workers have been on strike for about a week, claiming a recent contract proposal from the company includes a pay raise that doesn't keep pace with insurance premium increases. Strikes of this size are rare in central Minnesota where organized labor has never had a strong presence, but some say unions are on the upswing in this part of the state.
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