November 12, 1998 - The day after telling students at his old High school he didn't apply himself much to his studies... Minnesota Governor-elect Jesse Ventura is back at school. Every two years, a few weeks after the November vote, the National Governor's Association puts on "Governors school" for first-time governors --- a few days in specialized seminars and private consulations with experienced governors currently on the job. Nancy Marshall reports from this years Governors school in Wilmington Delaware. SFXX 1: Welcome to the 1998 Governor's session. . . TRXX 1: Governor Thomas Carper of Delaware is the host -- and a professor -- at this year's National Governor's Association
November 12, 1998 - Governor-Elect Ventura's victory shocked Minnesota's political establishment, but not Joram Manka , a Ventura supporter in Duluth. Manka, a student at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, won a contest on a political website by correctly guessing the outcome on nearly every race on the Minnesota ballot: University of Minnesota Duluth student Joram Manka won the checks and balances-dot com website contest by correctly guessing the outcome of the governor's race and many other contests last Tuesday. He'll be presented with the John Spanish Prognosticator Award December 3rd in St. Paul. Governor-elect Ventura has been invited as the keynote speaker. (find music)
November 13, 1998 - Bud Grant, former Minnesota Vikings and Hall-of-Fame coach discusses the Vikings team history and current strong season. After Grant interview, a report from Chris Roberts on the music history of Minnesota’s Soma Records. Begins highlights of the top ten releases from label and is continued into a second hour program with MPR’s John Rabe (aka Johnny R). Program contains pledge drive segments.
November 13, 1998 - MPR’s John Rabe (aka Johnny R) presents The Big Hits of Mid-America Countdown! A musical extravaganza featuring local bands - the Gestures, the Castaways, the Trashmen and more. Soma Records was an American record label, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This program continues highlights of the top ten releases from label, which began in first hour. Program contains pledge drive segments.
November 13, 1998 - Minneapolis city employees packed council chambers last night to protest the city's residency rule, which requires those hired since 1993 to live within city limits. Minnesota Public Radio's Eric Jansen reports: The St. Anthony West Neighborhood Association's chairman was in the minority last night. Michael Rainville says most neighborhood groups believe Minneapolis city employees should be required to live in the city. 2:42 "Noone's holidng a gun to anyone's head. If you don't want the job, because you don't want to live here, if you view that as a penalty, then perhaps you're not cut out to be a city of Minneapolis employee." :11
November 13, 1998 - The firearms deer hunting season in northern Minnesota is getting mixed reviews by hunters and observers. Anecdotal information points to a smaller harvest in areas where the deer population was hard hit by the devastating winters of 1996 and 1997. There are some game registration stations reporting a better than expected hunt, But regardless of their success, many hunters are elated over the overwhelming support Minnesota voters gave the constitutional ammendment protecting hunting and fishing rights. In fact, its hard to find any opposition to the measure among hunters. Mainstreet Radio's Tom Robertson reports from Bemidji...
November 13, 1998 - The Minnesota AIDS Project says millions of dollars will be needed to fight an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases. But The state health department says, first, more research is needed to find out the extent of the problem. Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Gunderson reports... Most people are well aware of the dangers of the most publicized sexually transmitted disease..AIDS. But public health officials say few people are aware of syphilis, chlamydia and the papilloma virus. The centers for disease control says its a national epidemic Jeremy Hanson public policy co-ordinator for the Minnesota
November 16, 1998 - Joan Growe, outgoing Minnesota Secretary of State, talks about election reform proposals, including run-off elections, earlier primaries, the party nomination process and Governor Arne Carlson's run-off proposal. Growe also discusses ideas of MPR listeners.
November 16, 1998 - As part of the “Our State, Our Forests” series, Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger presents a report on the history of the timber industry in Minnesota. Timber was far and away the biggest industry in the state…and it changed the very landscape we live in.
November 16, 1998 - Logging isn't the job it used to be. A century ago, 30-thousand loggers were at work in the Minnesota woods. Today there are fewer than a thousand, using high-tech machines to supply the state's multi-billion dollar wood-products industry. And technology is not the only big change in the woods since 1900; the economy and politics of logging are different too. In the first of a weeklong series of reports called, "OUR STATE, OUR FORESTS," Leif Enger has the story of one family that's seen those changes firsthand. Host backannounce: The series "Our State, Our Forests" continues