August 18, 1999 - The Advertising Council is sponsoring a series of public service announcements this evening urging parents to talk with their children about violence. We speak with Mary Lewis Grow, national coordinator of the Student Pledge Against Gun Violence; and Judy Ladd, past president of the American Middle School Counselor Association and currently on the president's expert panel for violence prevention.
August 18, 1999 - Call it an obsession. This morning book afficionados in Duluth are lining up outside the doors of the downtown public library for what has become an institution as well as a library fund-raiser: the annual book sale. They are prepared to mow people down or elbow them aside, all in the interests of finding the perfect cheap summer reading.
August 18, 1999 - Minnesota's community banks told U-S Senator Paul Wellstone in no uncertain terms today they want the farm crisis addressed because their own businesses are at stake.
August 19, 1999 - We talk to two St. Paul citizens who were on the ball bark tour in Denver, former DFL lawmaker Ray Faricy and Marla Gamble, jewelry designer and painter and treasurer of the St. Paul Art Collective, plus Minnesota Public Radio reporter William Wilcoxen who join us from Denver.
August 19, 1999 - Governor Jesse Ventura's speech on the state’s role in dealing with the farm crisis, held at the Minnesota Rural Summit in Duluth.
August 19, 1999 - Some Minnesotans are giving their two-cents worth to a stadium fund -- and not a penny more. Governor Jesse Ventura suggested the fund as a way for stadium backers to contribute all or part of their state sales-tax rebate to the cause. So far the response has been fairly mixed with some contributors expressing scorn for a publicly-financed stadium.... but the fund is slowly building up. Finance Director for the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission Roger Simonson is opening the mail.
August 20, 1999 - We'll talk with former Minnesota house speaker Harry Sieben on the ethics involved in Ventura's wrestling ring appearance at Summerslam this weekend.
August 24, 1999 - Anglers on Mille Lacs Lake are seeing the best walleye catch in at least seven years. Half a million pounds of walleye have been taken from the lake this summer; another 200-thousand pounds caught and released. While thats great for resorters and tourists, it also means the so-called safe harvest level for Mille Lacs has already been exceeded, with the popular fall fishing season still to come.
August 24, 1999 - MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews Janet Harvey of Elk River, who has submitted a “Jesse” quilt in the Fine Arts Competition at the Minneosta State Fair. Harvey explains her reason behind the full-size fabric portrait of Governor Ventura.
August 25, 1999 - Our August edition of Voices of Minnesota features Mississippi River biologist Calvin Fremling on the 75th anniversary of the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife refuge.