September 29, 1999 - In this audio segment, Garrison Keillor gives an acceptance speech after receiving a National Humanities Medal. At an event sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Keillor talks about the difference between being a writer and hosting A Prairie Home Companion.
October 8, 1999 - On this hour of Midday, a discussion about Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad signing a letter of intent to sell the team, pending approval of a new ballpark in downtown St. Paul. If the deal goes through, sports moguls Glen Taylor and Robert Naegele will head up the new ownership group.
October 21, 1999 - Live Westminster Town Hall Forum with Dr. James Garbarino, psychologist and author of the book "Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them".
November 4, 1999 - A University of Minnesota faculty panel has come up with more ideas for avoiding the kind of cheating scandal that plagued the gopher men's basketball team this spring. In March, a University tutor came forward to say she had helped students commit academic fraud. Tom Clayton is a regents professor of English and Classical and Near Eastern Studies. He chairs the special senate committee on student academic integrity.
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November 16, 1999 - A Carleton College speech by Washington Post syndicated political columnist and author George Will. he is also contributing editor of Newsweek magazine.
November 18, 1999 - Live broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum, featuring Oregon family therapist Robin Karr-Morse. Her speech is titled, "Tracing the Roots of Violence." She is the author of Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence.
November 19, 1999 - Part of MPR's "The Surveillance Society" series, a Live broadcast of the Minnesota Meeting, featuring a speech by Amitai Etzioni titled, "Privacy & The Internet Age: Why Less Privacy is Good for Us - and You." Etzioni is author the "The LImits of Privacy" and "The Spirit of Community: The Reinvention of American Society"
December 1, 1999 - Governor Jesse Ventura addresses the Minnesota Meeting. Ventura's spseech was about his support for a unicameral legislature and answer questions from the Minnesota audience and a national Internet audience. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
December 2, 1999 - Special Live broadcast from the University of St. Thomas in downtown Minneapolis: The MPR Civic Journalism Initiative presents a Summit on "Minnesota in the Dot.Com Age." Where do we stand and where are we headed? Speakers include Ross DeVol of the Milken Institute, Randolph Court of the Progressive Policy Institute, and Jay Hare of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.