July 6, 1999 - Governor Ventura today signed extradition papers for the Saint Paul woman authorities believe is Kathleen Soliah, a former Symbionese Liberation Army member charged with conspiracy to murder police officers in California. Her attorney says he won't fight extradition, and his client hopes the matter will be resolved quickly in California.
July 6, 1999 - Job training centers for developmentally disabed people typically focus on finding or even creating low-skill jobs. Workers can pocket their earnings while developing a sense of pride and accomplishment as well as doing valuable work. But an agency in northeastern Iowa has taken that idea a step further, helping four people with developmental disabilities run their own business.
July 6, 1999 - Use this version Tuesday - no dated reference Searchers found two more bodies on the St. Croix River today, bringing the death total to five in one of the worst boating accidents in Minnesota history. Two powerboats collided over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, which historically has the most boating accidents of the year.
July 6, 1999 - Residents of a Minneapolis neighborhood are waiting with cautious optimism for word that a buyer has sealed a deal to develop a polluted parcel of land -- a brownfield in environmental parlance. Cleaning up the Gopher Oil site has been on the Prospect Park neighborhood agenda for ninety years. The pace of cleaning brownfields has quickened in Minneapolis as people seek scarce land for development.
July 6, 1999 - Hennepin county's two and a half year old experiment with a separate court for drug offenders gets a passing grade. The drug court uses a controversial sentencing mix of jail time, counseling and treatment. But the people who work with the drug court say the big problem still to overcome is even-handed enforcement of the drug laws.
July 6, 1999 - Attorneys have long touted a code of ethics they say rises above other professions such as accounting or banking. That code includes a rule that bans them from entering into partnerships with other professions as a way to safeguard clients' interests. But now a commission of the American Bar Association wants to scrap that century-old rule; an action some critics say strikes at the very heart of the legal profession's independence.
July 7, 1999 - Northwest Airlines flight attendants will soon vote on a contract offer. Union leaders have been holding informational meetings around the country, explaining to the rank and file details of the agreement they reached with Northwest last month. Yesterday evening several hundred flight attendants gathered at a Bloomington hotel. Many were there to criticize the contract. Another session is planned for later this morning in the Twin Cities.
July 7, 1999 - MPR’s Euan Kerr interviews campers Jennifer Sly and Mary Marrow of Minneapolis about their experience during the blow down in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The two recall lightning while paddling across Lake Saganaga with two other friends, and heading for shore to set up a temporary campsite.
July 8, 1999 - Last February Norwest Bank Minnesota made an announcement that stunned the local arts world; it was donating its world renowned collection of decorative, applied and graphic arts to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The collection features rare and significant metalwork, furniture, ceramics, glass, even posters, from one of the most explosive and diverse periods in art history....what scholars call the "modernist" period, between 1875 and 1945. Tomorrow the M.I.A. will unveil part of its prized gift to the public in a new exhibit called "Milestones of Modernism," and Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Roberts has a preview.
July 8, 1999 - MPR’s Lynette Nyman reports on how Somali immigrants are adjusting and taking on the many challenges in creating a new home in the United States. Nyman speaks with local Somali residents about adapting while keeping culture and tradition intact.