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.
January 4, 2000 - Arthur Caplan, bioethicist and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and former director of a similar center at the U of M, talks about key ethical issues in the new millennium. Topics include breakthroughs in genetics, biology and stem cell research. Caplan also answers listener questions.
January 5, 2000 - On his 72nd birthday, Walter Mondale, former vice-president, talks with MPR’s Gary Eichten about America's role in the world, the year in politics, and the century ahead. Mondale also answers listener questions.
January 5, 2000 - As Governor Ventura meets with legislative leaders about legislative priorities, MPR’s Gary Eichten asks for listener call-in commentary on what legislative priorities should be. Program includes an interview with Ventura from previous week, and a call from Steve Sviggum, Minnesota House majority leader. Program begins with news from MPR’s Greta Cunningham.
January 20, 2000 - Jeff Kahn, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics; Dave Somers, professor in the department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at the University of Minnesota, discuss the question "What are GMO's?" (Genetically Modified Organisms).
January 21, 2000 - George Latimer, former St. Paul Mayor; Dick Goebel, of the Second Harvest St. Paul Food Bank and the Food First Coalition; and Bonnie Becker of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, discuss the topic of hunger in Minnesota.
January 27, 2000 - MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews Verna Simpkins on the new Girl Scouts patch to honor Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen.
January 28, 2000 - Howard Orenstein, Board President of Citizens for a Safer Minnesota, and Joe Waldron, Executive Director of the national gun rights organization Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms based out of Bellvue, Washington discuss President Clinton's call for handgun licensing in his State of the Union address.