March 25, 1999 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports that Mille Lacs Ojibwe leaders called for cooperation and friendship after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of treaty rights. The decision affirmed an 1837 agreement allowing eight tribes to fish and hunt without state regulation in east-central Minnesota.
March 25, 1999 - In the first of a series of reports, Mainstreet Radio's Brent Wolfe reports on the re-building of the trailer park in Le Center, after a devastating tornado a year ago.
March 26, 1999 - Internationally known Minneapolis architect Ralph Rapson discusses his 60 years of work, which is the focus of a major retrospective opening at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Weisman Art Museum. Tom Fisher, dean of the University of Minnesota College of Architecture, joins the conversation. Rapson and Fisher also answer listener questions.
March 26, 1999 - Supporters of a hunting and trapping season for Minnesota wolves suffered a setback today, as a wolf management plan that would NOT allow a season for at least five years cleared a senate committee.
March 29, 1999 - A Mainstreet Radio special broadcast from lobby of Nicollet Hotel in St Peter. Rachel Reabe hosts a discussion on efforts to re-build and preserve historic buildings with guests Judy Bell, of the St. Peter Heritage Preservation Commission; Charlie Nelson of the Minnesota Historical Society; and local residents.
March 29, 1999 - A Mainstreet Radio special broadcast from lobby of Nicollet Hotel in St Peter. Rachel Reabe hosts a discussion on tornados and weather with Rich Naistat, of the National Weather Service; Mark Seeley, of the U of M and MPR; and Paul Douglas, of WCCO-TV.
March 29, 1999 - To close out the millennium, Minnesota Public Radio's All Things Considered presents a look back at Minnesota life in 1900 via a 12-part series, entitled “A Minnesota Century.” In this segment…the story of Lincoln Fey.
March 29, 1999 - Wells Fargo and Company says it plans to cut its workforce of 92 thousand by about 46 hundred people as a result of last year's merger with Minneapolis -based Norwest Bank. Many of cuts will be handled through attrition, however bank executives indicate some lay offs are also likely.
March 30, 1999 - This week some farmers will start preparing the fields for spring planting. Commodity prices, usually volatile, have been more so lately making the financial outlook for farmers shakier than it's been in years. This weekend thousands of high school and college students gathered in Brookings, South Dakota, for an agricultural exposition. As Minnesota Public Radio's Cara hetland reports the 'future farmers' have watched their parents deal with a volatile industry and seem to have learned some important lessons.
March 31, 1999 - Yesterday's high in the Twin Cities was 73, and we reached the mid 60s today, when normally we'd only hit 50. March is going out like a very big, fluffy lamb, and the evidence that spring has arrived is all around: from robins pulling up worms to hardy boys in shorts. Bet you didn't know people study this kind of thing. They're called "phenologists." Jim Gilbert of the Linnaeus Arboretum in St. Peter is a practicing phenologist.