June 12, 2001 - MPR’s Tim Post reports on how residents of central Minnesota spent the day cleaning up and assessing damage from storms that moved across the area on June 11, 2001. Several communities suffered significant damage caused by tornadoes, straight-line winds and hail.
June 12, 2001 - One year after a fatal shooting of a mentally ill woman by Minneapolis police, friends and activists are working to keep Barbara Schneider's name alive. The shooting prompted the department to review how police respond to mental health crises. Mental health professionals and others say the effort hasn't gone far enough.
June 14, 2001 - MPR’s Tim Post reports on severe weather that hammered Central Minnesota for the second time in less than a week. Storm after storm dumped 2 to 5 inches of rain on the area, straight line winds knocked down power poles and damaged homes.
June 21, 2001 - St. Paul city officials and civil rights activists are all singing the praises of a new racial profiling agreement. Under the terms of a pact between police and the St. Paul NAACP, citizens will be able to file complaints against the police more easily if they believe they've been targeted because of their race. The department is also promising to take community groups' views more into account when making policy decisions. But what representatives of both the police and the community say they're most proud of is how St. Paul developed a way to address racial profiling - something the state legislature has yet to do.
June 21, 2001 - Neighbors in south Minneapolis today celebrated the end of a decade-long battle to rid Lake Street of businesses housing prostitution. A front end loader began demolishing Sauna 27, the sixth sauna neighborhood organizers working with police and prosecutors have closed.
June 28, 2001 - This morning, Minneapolis police officials will announce updates to their traffic stop and search policies to address allegations of racial profiling. The announcement comes on the heels of a racial profiling agreement presented last week in St. Paul. However, Minneapolis police officials say the policy update was in the works well before the St. Paul agreement was finalized. The changes mean city residents may notice some similarities between Minneapolis and St. Paul police procedures.
July 3, 2001 - MPR's William Wilcoxen reports that multiple players on the Minnesota Twins may be chosen for the upcoming 2001 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Halfway through their baseball season the Minnesota Twins are perched at the top of their division, with the second best record in the American League. The strong performance of a team many experts picked to finish last remains the surprise story of the year in baseball.
July 4, 2001 - MPR’s Mary Losure reports that after massive storm in BWCA, which many considered a catastrophe, is providing a rare opportunity for scientists to study how a wilderness recovers from a massive natural disturbance. Losure interviews Alan Heine, forestry Professr at University of Wisconsin; and Lee Frelich forest ecologist at University of Minnesota.
July 5, 2001 - Mainstreet Radio's Chris Julin visits Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in Ashland, Wisconsin. The center turns tourists and school groups into voyageurs for a day, and takes them out on Superior in a huge, Montreal canoe.
July 5, 2001 - Race relations in Rochester are in turmoil, following allegations of police brutality involving a minor at a local dance club. The incident is being investigated by local police, and the FBI, but tempers flared today when members of the African American community sat down for heated discussion with Rochester's mayor and chief of police.