August 12, 1998 - Chris Farrell, MPR’s senior business and economic editor, and Art Rolnick of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, discuss decline on Wall Street and the economy --and the impact on Minnesota. Farrell and Rolnick also answer listener questions.
August 12, 1998 - Warren Hanson, president of the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund; and Charlie Warner, chairman of the Right to Housing Campaign, discuss the state of affordable housing in Minnesota. Topics include shortage of subsidized housing and increasing rents. Hanson and Warner also answer listener questions.
August 13, 1998 - Doug Johnson, state senator and DFL Gubernatorial candidate talks with MPR’s Gary Eichten about the issues and his campaign. Topics include taxes, polls, police protection, gambling, farm issues, and gun permit laws. Johnson also answers listener questions.
August 13, 1998 - An MPR Special presenting interviews with all seven major party gubernatorial candidates on welfare, followed by listener reaction to the candidates. Program begins with brief reports on the various candidates.
August 13, 1998 - Simon McBurney, artistic director of the Theatre de Complicite. "The Street of Crocodiles" opens tonite at Theatre de la Jeune Lune, but every production is sold out already. If you're one of the lucky ones who got tickets for "The Street of Crocodiles", the sold-out surrealist production that opens tonite in Minneapolis.
August 13, 1998 - A Minnesota taxpayer and a state lawmaker today filed a lawsuit seeking to recover attorneys' fees from the state's tobacco settlement. They say the nearly half-a-billion dollars awarded to the lawyers is excessive, and the money should go to the state treasury. The state's lead attorney and the Attorney General's office call the lawsuit "frivalous" and "politically motivated." Minnesota Public Radio's Laura McCallum reports... Republican State Senator Tom Neuville of Northfield and financial consultant Roger Conant of Sunfish Lake say the legal fees going to the private Minneapolis law firm that handled the case are unreasonable. Conant says the 440-million dollar payment amounts to 125-dollars for every Minnesota
August 13, 1998 - A coalition of community groups spearheaded by Honeywell, Inc., broke ground today on the new Portland Place project -- a housing redevelopment plan designed to create owner-occupied homes in Minneapolis' Phillips neighborhood. Honeywell hopes the effort will revitalize the area. Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo reports. With shovels in hand, executives from Honeywell were joined by Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton and representatives from local community groups to break ground on the Portland Place project. The project is a joint venture between Honeywell and other community partners. The 12.7 million dollar undertaking will redevelop two square blocks overlooking Honeywell's world headquarters in the Phillips neighborhood -- replacing rente
August 13, 1998 - Republican gubernatorial candidate Norm Coleman today (THURS) promised to put millions of dollars more into fighting gangs state-wide. Yesterday, DFLer Skip Humphrey made a similar pledge -- again, singling out gangs as a target for more law enforcement. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman responded by saying HE's the only candidate for governor who has real experience combatting crime. Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste reports on the candidates' recent focus on law and order: The race for governor has experienced a sudden rash of gang-related campaign promises. Skip Humphrey started the spree yesterday with by standing near the site of a recent fatal shooting on St Paul's Western Avenue: ((HUMPRHEY: Now that was just another case of the tragic mixture of GUNS and GANGS and DRUGS, and it leaves our citiz
August 14, 1998 - Sharon Sayles Belton, mayor of Minneapolis, talks with MPR’s Gary Eichten about her new budget for the city and the wide range of issues facing the city: housing, crime, schools, jobs, transportation and more. Program starts with discussion about Shubert Theatre and Block E development.
August 14, 1998 - Walter Mondale, former U.S. vice president and former ambassador to Japan, talks with MPR’s Gary Eichten about the foreign service, the Asian economic crisis, and campaign finance. Mondale also answers listener questions.