March 22, 1999 - St. John's University in Collegeville unveiled the first page of an equisite handwritten Bible today at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. It will take six years to finish the new St. John's bible commissioned at a cost of about $3 million dollars. The University calls it a Bible for the 21st century. It's a Roman Catholic text based on the widely used "New Revised Standard Version." Queen Elizabeth's calligrapher, Donald Jackson, will oversee the massive project and its team of international calligraphers. He says the new St. John's Bible will still use a traditional text...but it will be coupled with non-traditional images likely to appeal to today's readers.
March 24, 1999 - Scott Strand, former deputy counsel in the Minnesota State Attorney’s office, discusses a treaty rights ruling from the Supreme Court regarding hunting and fishing. Program includes a debrief from MPR’s Elizabeth Stawicki on the history of case.
March 24, 1999 - Norm Coleman, St. Paul mayor, discusses the state of the city and answers listener questions.
March 25, 1999 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports that Mille Lacs Ojibwe leaders called for cooperation and friendship after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of treaty rights. The decision affirmed an 1837 agreement allowing eight tribes to fish and hunt without state regulation in east-central Minnesota.
March 25, 1999 - Two million Muslims from around the world are in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca today for the annual pilgrimage known as Hajj. Muslims are obliged to participate in the Hajj rituals in Mecca at least once in their lives. Minnesota Public Radio's Art Hughes talked with a Muslim man from Rochester who is making the Hajj for the first time.
March 25, 1999 - In the first of a series of reports, Mainstreet Radio's Brent Wolfe reports on the re-building of the trailer park in Le Center, after a devastating tornado a year ago.
March 26, 1999 - Internationally known Minneapolis architect Ralph Rapson discusses his 60 years of work, which is the focus of a major retrospective opening at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Weisman Art Museum. Tom Fisher, dean of the University of Minnesota College of Architecture, joins the conversation. Rapson and Fisher also answer listener questions.
March 26, 1999 - The Nicollet County Historical society had planned to organize a large exhibit on the tornado that ripped through St. Peter last march, but decided the town wasn't ready for it. Instead, they scaled back and have two small exhibits. Director Wayne Allen says many people in St. Peter are still rebuilding their lives and he says the Historical Society didn't think a big tornado exhibit would be tactful.
March 29, 1999 - A Mainstreet Radio special broadcast from lobby of Nicollet Hotel in St Peter. Rachel Reabe hosts a discussion on efforts to re-build and preserve historic buildings with guests Judy Bell, of the St. Peter Heritage Preservation Commission; Charlie Nelson of the Minnesota Historical Society; and local residents.
March 29, 1999 - A Mainstreet Radio special broadcast from lobby of Nicollet Hotel in St Peter. Rachel Reabe hosts a discussion on tornados and weather with Rich Naistat, of the National Weather Service; Mark Seeley, of the U of M and MPR; and Paul Douglas, of WCCO-TV.