June 28, 1999 - The official search for a missing Barnum woman has again ended near Moose Lake. Meanwhile, the man accussed of kidnapping Katie Poirier has a new defense attorney.
June 29, 1999 - The defeat of gun control legislation in the U-S House recently came as no suprise to gun policy expert Tom Diaz. In his new book Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America, Diaz says a better strategy would be to challenge gun manufacturers on their marketing of increasingly deadlier products. Diaz comes to gun policy from the perspective of someone who loved guns. From his boyhood scouting experience in Mississippi, to his military service, to collecting guns as an adult, Diaz says there were always guns in his life. Then his law degree landed him a job with the House Crime subcommittee.
June 29, 1999 - MPR’s Lynette Nyman visits Camp Ajawah to profile a new Girl Scout troop in Minnesota. It's not like most other Girl Scout troops in the state because Troop 2675 is for Southeast Asian girls. Born in the United States and growing up in the Twin Cities, these new girl scouts, who are mostly Hmong, are experiencing and learning in ways often unavailable in traditional Hmong homes.
June 29, 1999 - Governor Jesse Ventura says Minnesotans can expect proposals for major tax reform from his administration's next budget in two years. Ventura says government is too large and taxes are too complicated. He says his challenge will be determining where to make cuts.
June 29, 1999 - Analysts say Wells Fargo's decision to cut one thousand Norwest teller positions will not have much affect on service. They say it reflects the challenge banks face in cutting costs even as they juggle customer demand for both teller service and electronic banking.
June 29, 1999 - Minnesota tenants advocates say some landlords are ripping off prospective tenants by mis-appropriating rental application fees. They say in today's tight rental housing market, some landlords take many more applications than they need to rent an apartment, or even take applications when no apartment is available, pocketing the fees. A new law will make these practices illegal, but tenants groups say the law has no teeth.
June 30, 1999 - Star Wars is coming to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The museum is one of six sites chosen to host a Smithsonian traveling exhibition of costumes, props, production artwork and models from the archives of Lucasfilm. The museum hopes the exhibit "Star Wars: The Magic of Myth" will draw a quarter of a million people, which would set a museum record. And if the crowds admire a few paintings and the jade mountain while they're there, all the better. To those who wonder if "Star Wars" belongs in the museum, MIA curator Lotus Stack says the movie is an important artistic statement.
June 30, 1999 - Governor Ventura wants the Reform Party to distance itself from its founder, Texas billionaire Ross Perot... and Ventura is weighing in on internal party politics to help make that happen.
June 30, 1999 - US Bank Corp and the state of Minnesota have settled the privacy lawsuit brought against the bank by Attroney General Mike Hatch. Under the deal the bank admits NO wrong doing, but will change some policies and donate millions of dollars to charity.
July 1, 1999 - The Minnesota Vikings are launching a statewide campaign for a new stadium. The team rejected a proposal from the Minnesota Sports Facilities Commission to turn the Metrodome into a football only stadium for less than half the cost of building a new one. Instead, the Vikings want a 70,000-seat roofed football-only stadium that would cost at least 400- million dollars. Vikings owner Red McCombs says he thinks Minnesotans are behind him.