March 3, 1999 - State education officials and University of Minnesota researchers say they can now show a clear connection between breakfast and learning. They say results of a three-year study will add weight to Governor Ventura's proposal to boost funding for school breakfast programs by six million dollars.
March 3, 1999 - Representatives of a conservative California-based think tank visited Minnesota this week to share their vision of new approach to protecting the environment. Representatives of the Reason Foundation say they came to Minnesota because its among the states moving fastest toward a non-traditional, freemarket style of environmental regulation.
March 3, 1999 - A Senate Committee has taken up a bill intended to give patients and doctors more control over the kind of treatment covered by Health Maintenance Organizations.
March 3, 1999 - The chief executive of the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Band says she's still waiting to hear from Governor Jesse Ventura, after the publication of her open letter criticizing Ventura's leadership. In the letter, chief executive Marge Anderson accused the governor of attempting to inflame public opinion against the Band, even as the Supreme Court prepares to hand down a final decision on treaty rights.
March 3, 1999 - The National Weather Service is out with an early flood prediction for Grand Forks and East Grand Forks. The first flood outlook to project river crest levels for the whole Red River Valley is due out next friday, but Grand Forks officials requested their numbers be released sooner.
March 3, 1999 - Northfield residents have cleared the way for a Target store to locate just south of the city. In a special election yesterday, a slim majority approved an ordinance to allow large-scale retail operations along a portion of a highway commercial district.
March 4, 1999 - Minneapolis based Best Buy Corporation today posted record sales of more than ten BILLION dollars last year. The numbers represent a more than 20 percent increase in sales over the previous year.
March 4, 1999 - DFL State Senator Steve Morse is resigning to take the number two job at the State Department of Natural Resources. In his 12 years at the legislature, Morse has been a champion of environmental causes and has won high marks with such groups as the Sierra Club and the Izaak Walton League.
March 4, 1999 - Minnesota Agriculture commissioner Gene Hugoson heard an earful about the farm crisis during the first in a series of listening sessions around the state. Hugoson was in Marshall yesterday where farmers said state officials should be leaders in the search for solutions.. something they say is not happening.
March 4, 1999 - The Minneapolis City Council appears ready to approve a Target office tower on Nicollet Mall, despite a planning committee vote last week that could have blocked the project. But council action tomorrow will likely force Dayton Hudson to consider downtown neighbors' concerns in the skyscraper's design.