December 29, 1999 - A "Minnesota Century" special - reports from Minnesota at the turn of the Century, 100 years ago.
December 30, 1999 - One person who will definately be working this New Year's Eve is Jill Waterman. She's a New York photographer who's spent the past 16 years capturing New Year's Eve celebrations throughout the world on film. Some of her photographs are on display this month at the pARTS gallery in Minneapolis . Waterman says her New Year project started accidentally, when she found herself on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on New Year's Eve 1983.
December 30, 1999 - 1999 was another big year for corporate mergers. When New Jersey based Allied Signal bought Honeywell for nearly 16 billion dollars, it became the second year in a row that Minnesota lost the headquarters of a Fortune 500 company. In 1998, Minneapolis had lost the corporate offices of Norwest Bank when it acquired Wells Fargo and moved its top executives to San Francisco. It's clear the forces driving such mergers will continue -- even though investors are increasingly skeptical of buyouts. Bill Catlin of Minnesota Public Radio has the next in our series of reports on the year ahead.
December 30, 1999 - MPR’s Bob Kelleher reports on fear of fire danger into new century after BWCA area blowdown. Kelleher interviews several forest officials.
December 30, 1999 - David and Johanna Hecker are devout Christians who have been living for 22 years in Northeast Minnesota, on land they call God's wilderness. When they heard about the anticipated problems with Y-2-K, they advertised, offering to sell land to other Christian, home-schooling families, and help build cabins to avoid any millennial disruptions. Visitors arrived from all over the country. But as Mainstreet Radio's Amy Radil reports, things haven't quite worked out as the Heckers hoped.
December 31, 1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned this morning. Melor Sturua of the University of Minnnesota Humphrey Institute and a columnist for Isvestia; Nick Hayes, Hamline University History Professor, and Patrick Dale, St. Olaf College professor, join to discuss.
December 31, 1999 - We've been talking about it for months- even years, and finally we're on the brink of the Year 2000. Today, Jon Gordon, MPR reporter and producer of Future Tense; and Mike O'Connor, retired Internet pioneer and volunteer Y2K advisor for St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman, provide last minute Y2K tips and take questions. We also monitor what's happening when the clock strikes 12 around the world.
December 31, 1999 - In November, St. Paul voters rejected Mayor Norm Coleman's proposal to build a new ballpark for the Minnesota Twins. Coleman had sold the stadium as a key link in his efforts to rejuvenate downtown St. Paul. But it was only one piece of a broader strategy to attract business and build grand new public amenities. In another of our series of reports on the year ahead, Minnesota Public Radio's Andrew Haeg looks at prospects for reviving St. Paul.
January 3, 2000 - Schulz's hometown of St. Paul is brainstorming ways to honor its famous son. Erich Mische is the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the city of St. Paul. He hopes to narrow down the list of ideas for honoring Charles Schulz in a couple of weeks. Thu 25-MAY 23:33:27 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
January 3, 2000 -