June 2, 1999 - The Saint Paul school board will consider 10-and-a-half million dollars in spending cuts to balance next year's budget. District administrators last night outlined a budget proposal that includes teacher layoffs and increased class sizes.
June 4, 1999 - St Paul Public Schools Superintendent Patricia Harvey talks about her plans to improve the schools.
June 4, 1999 - The first refugee family from Kosovo to resettle in Minnesota arrived last night in the Twin Cities. Refugee workers from the World Relief organization and a "host family" were there to greet them. Although there's talk of peace for Kosovo, there's no telling when, or even if, this family will go home.
June 7, 1999 - Mike Christensen, executive director of the Allina Foundation and vice-president for Community Investment for Allina Health System; Judith Borger, author of "Honeywell: The First 100 Years"; and Sharon Sayles Belton, mayor of Minneapolis, discuss the Honeywell merger's impact on the community.
June 7, 1999 - Commentator Betty Hammel remembers spending her youth along the Mississippi River. And she likes the plans to return St.Paul's focus to the river and its environs.
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June 8, 1999 - Business leaders are asking themselves if there was anything the state could have done to keep Honeywell from leaving Minnesota. The general consensus is NO -- for one thing, Honeywell kept its merger plans secret from state officials until the last minute. But some people inside and outside government say the state should take Honeywell's sudden departure as a warning of things to come.
June 8, 1999 - State education officials say they're encouraged by third and fifth grade test scores in reading, math and writing. Second-year results of the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment tests, showed gains in both grades. Despite the improvements, education leaders say it's still too soon to draw conclusions from the scores.
June 9, 1999 - High school seniors are marking the end of a school year filled with hard choices and traditional pressures. At graduation, these young people either have their plans in place or remain undecided about what's next. But they are ALL thinking hard about leaving familiar surroundings and facing an uncertain future. Saint Paul's Johnson High is among the schools holding commencement exercises tonight, and Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Pugmire talked with members of the class of 1999.
June 9, 1999 - First in a two-part series on Devils Lake, Mainstreet Radio’s Dan Gunderson reports on the changes that have taken place to lake in northeast North Dakota, which has risen nearly 25 feet in the past six years. The lake has no natural outlet to release water and above normal precipitation in recent years has raised the lake to levels not seen in recorded history.