August 29, 2000 - MPR’s Brandt Williams gets a tour of “The Electric Bus,” a portable sampler of Seattle's 240 million dollar interactive museum called the Experience Music Project. Inside the exhibit visitors can get a history lesson or play around with some high-tech toys.
August 31, 2000 - MPR’s Jim Bickal profiles the intricate differences of the Pronto pup and the Poncho Dog. Like many things at the State Fair, the corndog business is based on tradition and family, and Bickal interviews the vendors behind these fair food staples.
September 4, 2000 - Mainstreet Radio's Tim Post profiles The Minnesota Fishing Museum in Little Falls, Minnesota. In the land of 10,000 lakes, a few things are sacred. And here, where rods and reels can become almost a personal appendage, there's a shrine to the past time. The museum boasts antique rods, reels, lures and boats along with generations of fish stories. But the museum founders Al Baert and Morry Sauve say this is not a typical museum, it's focus is on the people.
September 6, 2000 - Former Minnesota Governor Elmer Andersen has written a memoir about his life in public service called A Man's Reach. Governor Andersen spoke about the book and his life with Gary Eichten. He was joined by Lori Sturdevant, Star Tribune reporter and editor of A Man's Reach.
September 6, 2000 - MPR’s Tim Pugmire reports on the opening of more than a dozen new charter schools in Minnesota, bringing the state's total to 64. This year's batch of schools includes some that are targeting specific racial and ethnic groups -- an approach that worries some education leaders.
September 12, 2000 - In Bemidji author Kevin McColley's new novel "The Other Side", a Civil War era farm boy flees after killing a local bully in a fight . After drifting for a while, he ends up in Missouri with Quantrill's Raiders, a rag-tag guerilla army involved in brutal attacks against northern civilians. McColley says he'd wanted to write a Civil War novel for a long tine, but only felt he'd found a subject that hadn't been done to death when he ran across accounts of the raiders. His novel, which has now been nominated for a National Book Award, examines how ordinary people can do horrible things.
September 14, 2000 - MPR’s Annie Feidt reports that the University of Minnesota men's swimming team will be well represented at the summer Olympics. No U of M swimmers made the United States Olympic team, but five members of the gopher's squad from four nations will represent their home countries in the pool in Sydney.
September 22, 2000 - MPR’s Laura McCallum interviews Winona LaDuke, vice-presential candidate for Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader. LaDuke discusses the Green Party platform and local support in Minnesota.
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September 25, 2000 - Tom Neuville, Republican State Senator; and Ann DeGroot, director of Out Front Minnesota discuss Governor Ventura's decision to look into providing benefits to the partners of gay and lesbian state employees.