April 1, 1998 - Today officials from the Minnesota Historical Society will visit Saint Peter to survey tornado damage to the city's historic buildings. Hundreds of homes business and civic buildings were badly damaged Sunday night. Many others were destroyed. Some of those buildings were part of Saint Peter's early history, a town once chosen as the state capital. Minnesota Public Radio's Lynette Nyman reports.
April 1, 1998 - Later this year a California company will offer a new product called "mp-man." The small device, which can fit in the palm of your hand, is for storing music you download from the internet. The "mp-man" uses an audio standard called mpeg-3, that's near-cd quality sound. You can plug the device into any stereo. Kent Kiefer is ceo of nordic entertainment worldwide, the company that will sell the "mp-man"...and that currently sells songs on its website, for as little as a quarter. kiefer says downloading music from the web saves money ... and waste.
April 2, 1998 - MPR’s Cara Hetland reports that the tornadoes in Comfrey and St. Peter has brought memories back for the residents of Chandler in southwest Minnesota. A tornado in 1992 wiped out nearly all of the town. They have rebuilt their town and gone one with their lives but the memories and emotions are still strong.
April 2, 1998 - Nicollet is one of four counties included in President Clinton's disaster declaration. Saint Peter residents now have access to federal money to help repair and rebuild after Sunday's tornado. Governor Arne Carlson also sent a team from the state historical society to help calm fears that the twister robbed the city of it's original charm. Minnesota Public Radio's Art Hughes reports.
April 2, 1998 - So your web page looks nice, and it's a good read...but how does it SOUND? Thomas Dolby Robertson is out to make the web a friendly place for the ear. The singer of the 1980's quirky hit song "She Blinded Me With Science" makes his living these days as a multimedia artist and composer.
April 3, 1998 - The National Weather service issued a preliminary report indicating extraordinarily wide and long-running tornados were responsible for the damage in Comfrey, Le Center, and St. Peter on March 29, 1998. The review identified a total of seven seperate tornadoes which hit Brown, Nicollet, Le Sueur, Rice, and Dakota counties. Two, or possibly three, of the tornadoes were especially destructive "multiple vortex" tornadoes.
April 3, 1998 - Chris Roberts talks with Art Hughes to get find out how Saint Peter is coping, five days after the tornado damaged much of the town.
April 3, 1998 - Chris talks with Martin Kaste to get an update on today's movement on various issues at the legislature.
April 6, 1998 - Lawmakers have given themselves four more days to finish all their business...and it's a deadline that's looking more and more daunting as time goes by. Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste joins us from the Capitol Bureau.
April 6, 1998 - Legislative leaders are pledging to adjourn and go home this week -- even though two of this year's stickiest issues remain unresolved. House and Senate negotiators met over the weekend to talk about the Saint Paul hockey arena, and Minnesota Public Radio's Martin Kaste joins us from our capitol bureau to bring us up to speed.