September 17, 1999 - Members of the DFL Committee on Rural Issues got an earful in Bemidji last night during the last in a series of hearings around the state.
September 20, 1999 - The Minnesota Vikings stumbled yesterday, losing their home opener to the Oakland Raiders 22 to 17. Players and coaches seemed to shrug off the loss, but many fans were clearly upset by the team's performance.
September 20, 1999 - The state's largest school district is coping with another large wave of new immigrants. Minneapolis school officials say the fastest growing segment of their enrollment remains recent arrivals, who speak little if any English. Nearly three weeks after the start of classes, immigrant students are still showing up to register.
September 21, 1999 - MPR’s Lorna Benson talks with nature photographer Jim Brandenburg about the the Boundary Waters after the massive blowdown. Brandenburg discusses the unknown long-term effects to the forest and animals.
September 22, 1999 - The topic of criminals under ten is disscussed with Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner and David Sanders, director of Children & Family Services in Hennepin County.
September 22, 1999 - The accordian is seldom seen as cutting edge. For many it's an instrument deeply rooted in the past. But for a North Dakotan Family living just west of Bismark the accordian is a passport to the future... which has taken its members all over the country, and now they are looking to make their fortune with their accordians at home.
September 22, 1999 - The University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus has been transformed this year into a huge construction zone. There's an unprecedented number of building projects underway, and one of the biggest began today. Riverbend Commons will eventaully add much needed student housing and parking space on the East Bank campus.
September 23, 1999 - An immigration court judge today ruled Rene Hurtado can stay in the US. Hurtado --who now goes by the name Rene Larin-- fled El Salvador in the 1980's claiming he feared persecution. However US Immigration officials said it was Hurtado who had committed attrocities.
September 24, 1999 - September edition of MPR's Voices of Minnesota series, featuring St. John's University football coach John Gagliardi and music arranger Red McLeod (he arranged the Minnesota Rouser as a student, arranged 1812 overture for U of M band for conductor Eugene Ormandy, wrote for Whoopee John polka band).
September 27, 1999 - As the Minnesota Literacy Summit gets underway in Minneapolis, a talk about the ways kids learn to read with Rosemary Miller, conference co-chair and coordinator of early literacy programs at the University of Minnesota.