February 23, 1998 - Another work week is already underway at the State Capitol. Legislators expect this to be the week when MONEY finally takes center stage, as committee start making hard choices about spending priorities, and how much tax relief is enough. Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste joins us from the Capitol.
February 24, 1998 - Threats against a black Minneapolis officer, Sergeant Alisa Clemons, are being investigated by the Hennepin County Sheriff's office. Clemons won reinstatement to her police job and back pay last year after an arbitrator ruled the city wrongly accused her of sending racist hate mail. Clemons' supporters see the threats made against her last week as a continuation by officers in the police department of a campaign to force her out. Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson has more.
February 25, 1998 - Threats against a black Minneapolis police officer, Sergeant Alisa Clemons, are being investigated by the Hennepin County Sheriff's department. Clemons won re-instatement to her police job two years ago after an arbitrator ruled the city wrongly accused her of sending racist hate mail. Clemons' supporters see the new threats made against her last week as continuation of a campaign by people in the police department to force her out. Minnesota Public Radio's Dan Olson has more.
February 25, 1998 - A House committee has revived a proposal to ban new large feedlots in Minnesota. The plan's supporters withdrew the moratorium two weeks ago in the face of stiff opposition from agricultural interests, but today the chairman of the Environment finance committee, DFLer Tom Osthoff, brought the moratorium back. Martin Kaste reports.
February 26, 1998 - The central figure in Minnesota's high-profile tobacco trial is Ramsey County District Judge Kenneth Fitzpatrick, who determines the trial's pace and the evidence jurors will see. Observers now have a good sense of what effect his judicial style is having on the trial.
February 27, 1998 - MPR’s Cara Hetland reports on 25th anniversary of Wounded Knee, a 72 day stand-off between members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the tribal and federal governments. Some regard the incident at Wounded Knee in western South Dakota as the beginning of an era of increased Indian activism; others see it as the end to progress on the reservation.
February 27, 1998 - Audio excerpts of Harry Davis recalling life in the Twin Cities. Davis eventually became chairman of the Minneapolis School Board. He grew up in Minneapolis during the Depression.
February 27, 1998 - Over objections of many of the nation's governors, President Clinton is backing legislative to impose a five year moratorium on new taxes on products bought over the Internet. Speaking in San Francisco, Clinton said new taxes would stifle Internet commerce.
March 2, 1998 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger profiles the Red Lake Warriors, who after a tragedy, are regrouping and preparing for another run at the state title.
March 2, 1998 - Last spring the flood-swollen Red, Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers carved a trail of destruction across the upper Midwest. Through a combination of backbreaking sandbagging and a healthy dose of luck some communities such as Fargo Moorhead, Mankato, and St Paul held off the floodwaters. Other towns lost the battle... Ada and Breckenridge were swamped twice...and hundreds of people were evacuated. But when the Red River rolled over the dikes into Grand Forks and East Grand Forks on April 18th the eyes of the nation were drawn to the unfolding tragedy. Nearly 60- thousand people were forced to leave...the largest single evacuation in U-S history. Then fire broke out in the flooded downtown and people watched in horror while a dozen buildings burned as firefighters looked on helplessly. In the first of a five part series on the Flood on 1997 Minnesota Public Radios Dan Gunderson looks back at that catastrophic weekend.