September 11, 1998 - MPR’s Lynette Nyman reports that hundreds of people attended the start of a four-day funeral service for six St. Paul children killed, apparently by their mother, in their home. The mourners, mostly from the Hmong community, expressed their grief and disbelief over the tragedy.
September 14, 1998 - Skip Humphrey, Mike Freeman, Ted Mondale, Doug Johnson and Mark Dayton, the five candidates for the DFL nomination, participate in the MPR Gubernatorial Primary Debate. Candidates also answer questions from the audience. MPR’s Gary Eichten acts as host and moderator.
September 14, 1998 - Continuation of Skip Humphrey, Mike Freeman, Ted Mondale, Doug Johnson and Mark Dayton, the five candidates for the DFL nomination, participating in the MPR Gubernatorial Primary Debate. Candidates answer questions from the audience, with topic of crime. MPR’s Gary Eichten acts as host and moderator.
September 14, 1998 - Northwest Airlines is ramping up after settling its strike with its pilots over the weekend. Some passenger flights will take off on Wednesay, but the airline estimates it'll be next Wednesday before it can resume its full schedule of 17-hundred daily flights. Tom Parsons is the editor of BESTFARES-dot-COM. He says customers may have a to wait a few days before the big fare sales most analysts were expecting: Tom Parsons is the editor of BESTFARES-dot-com. Sun 28-MAY 08:57:06 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
September 14, 1998 - Gubernatorial candidates are thick on the ground and in the air today.... the last day of campaigning before the primary. We caught up with the major party candiates as to hear their last minute messages.
September 14, 1998 - A Northwest Airlines spokesman says the company will have all its daily flights back on schedule by early next week. But more labor negotiations are on the horizon. Northwest's operations could unravel again if there's no contract with the company's biggest union, the International Association of Machinists. Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson reports. The 27,000 member Machinists union won't put a number to the pay increase members want. But spokesman Don Mayer says earlier this summer the Machinists rejected a fourteen percent wage increase over four years. Mayer says the union would restart talks with the company immediately if they get a call from Northwest. audio . . .for lack of a better word, we'
September 14, 1998 - n mn For use Monday M.E. (i also filed newscast tape re: poll reax sunday) ALL five DFL Gubernatorial candidates campaigned either by BUS or by PHONE over the weekend....hoping to get the votes needed to win tomorrow's primary. Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe was on the trail with SOME of them and has this report: After logging HUNDREDS of miles around the state since Thursday---DFL Endorsed candidate Mike Freeman maintained his fire during a rally at the American Legion Club in downtown Virginia. He said It was his 18-th trip to the iron range, since he began this race. It's a region of the state that's a DFL stronghold--and a KEY to winning an election.
September 14, 1998 - The DFL candidates for Governor took aim at Attorney General Skip Humphrey last night in the final debate of the primary campaign. Humphrey is leading in the polls, but his lead has shrunk a little. Now the other four candidates are looking for opportunities to bring him down further. Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste reports: It's a rule of thumb in politics that if you're trying to identify the front-runner in a race, you should look for the candidate who's deflecting the most attacks. At the DFL gubernatorial debate sponsored by MPR last night, that person was Skip Humphrey. Ted Mondale threw the first punch by accusing Humphrey of being too ready to promise more tax cuts and programs than the state can afford.
September 14, 1998 - Northwest Airlines is asking all of its employees to redouble efforts to improve customer service now that the pilots strike is over. On Saturday leaders of the six thousand members pilots union approved a contract agreement ending their 15 day strike. The deal the pilots signed will likely set the bar for negotiations with Northwest's five other unions.
September 14, 1998 - As part of a series of stories following the path of the "Father of Waters,” aka the Mississippi River, Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen has this Mainstreet report on recreational growth on the river and the implications for industries that has traditionally used the water.