March 14, 1997 - MPR’s Maryann Sullivan interviews jazz bassist Anthony Cox, who discusses his return to Twin Cities in hopes of supporting a stronger jazz scene in area.
March 19, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter looks at Challenge Incarceration Program, a Minnesota juvenile boot camp in Willow River. Supporters say strict discipline and hard work will knock some sense into criminals. But research seems to indicate that boot camps don’t work, don’t save money, and they don’t rehabilitate criminals.
March 20, 1997 - On this first day of spring, Mainstreet Radio’s Mark Steil presents some stories from the winter of '97…and shares words from winter's past in the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder and O.E. Rolvaag.
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March 22, 1997 - More than fifteen thousand Gophers Basketball fans jammed Williams Arena last night... for a welcome-home rally... when the team returned to Minneapolis from San Antonio.
March 22, 1997 - The Minnesota Gophers men's basketball team has earned a berth in the NCAA Final Four. The number-one seeded Gophers won the Midwest region final yesterday with an 80-to-72 come-from-behind victory over UCLA. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Wareham was in San Antonio for the game and has this report.
March 22, 1997 - It's nail-biting time once agin for Gopher fans as the Men's Basketball team faces UCLA at 2:40 this afternoon in the Midwest Regional final. Fans have barely had time to recover from the double overtime victory against Clemson Thursday night.
March 22, 1997 - Monday night more than a billion pairs of eyes will be glued to the small screen to celebrate the best of the big screen. The 69th annual Academy Awards are billed as Hollywood's biggest night of the year. Weekend Edition Film Critic Rob Nelson says he's generally pleased with this year's crop of nominations.
March 22, 1997 - Welfare reform, the stadium deal and snowmobile rules are some of the issues dominating this years legislative session. The State Legislature is half way through it's long budget session.
March 24, 1997 - Legislation to have the state subsidize a new Minnesota Twins stadium made some progress at the Legislature, despite lawmakers' misgivings. MPR's Martin Kaste reports that the fate of the Twins Stadium bill had fallen into the hands of the members of the Senate Local and Metropolitan Government Committee…and they were none too happy about it.