September 10, 1998 - GREEN FEATURE: not yet scheduled for air/// More and more southeast Asian immigrants are hunting, fishing, and enjoying Minnesota's outdoors. But DNR officials say they sometimes have difficulty communicating with immigrants who don't speak English. As a result, the DNR is training the state's first Asian conservation officers. It's an important step since immigrants don't realize some of the fish they're catching may be contaminated with pollutants. Minnesota Public Radio's Brent Wolfe reports. When Vuthy Pril and his family moved to Minnesota from
August 31, 1998 - Doctors at the Mayo Clinic are warning that a popular dietary supplement, 5 Hydroxy Tryptophan or 5-HTP, may contain a contaminant suspected in a rare blood disease. And late today, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed the Mayo findings. The study, published in the September issue of "Nature Medicine," reports that Mayo doctors have found the same contaminant in off-the-shelf brands of 5-HTP that they found in a batch of the L-Tryptophan dietary supplement that killed 30 people in 1989. Minnesota Public Radio's Brent Wolfe reports from Rochester.
June 3, 1998 - Migrant workers are arriving in southeast Minnesota to work in canning and packing plants. Many come from the Eagle Pass area of Texas, along the Mexican border. They used to travel to the Red River Valley to work on the sugar beet harvest but mechanization and better farm chemicals mean sugar beet farmers don't need as much labor. In the first report in an occasional series on migrants in Minnesota, Minnesota Public Radio's Brent Wolfe introduces us to one migrant family and what they leave behind.
May 13, 1998 - The director of the Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center says Minnesota's tobacco trial will prove to be one of the most significant public health developments of the latter part of the 20th century. Dr. Richard Hurt was the state's first witness in the case. He testified nicotine is a drug and said tobacco companies conspired to hide its addictiveness. Dr. Hurt told Minnesota Public Radio's Brent Wolfe the trial is as important as any warning issued by the surgeon general.
May 4, 1998 - People participating in a recent Minnesota Citizens Forum don't want any "no new taxes" pledges from the candidates running for governor. They recognize tax policy is complex and developed questions for the candidates that seek to get them to expound on how they might change the state's tax system. Minnesota Public Radio's Brent Wolfe reports. Minnesota Public Radio, the Star Tribune, and KTCA television gathered citizens at conference sites in St. Paul, Rochester, and Duluth to discuss tax policy and develop tax questions for the gubernatorial candidate
May 4, 1998 - MPR’s Perry Finnelli presents a public reponse call-in show on the Minnesota Citizens Forum about tax policy.
April 30, 1998 - Advances in medicine give physicians better tools to heal the sick, but some patients feel their humanity gets overlooked by doctors focused on equipment, medication, and the pressure to see more patients. Studies show a relationship between faith and health. In the final story in our series on religion in everday life, Minnesota Public Radio's Brent Wolfe reports many medical schools are teaching doctors how to use spirituality as another tool to heal.
April 30, 1998 - Much of the dispute in the trial has focused on what it's cost the state and insurance companies to treat people with smoking related illnesses. Health workers who work with smokers say they're glad the trial is taking place regardless of the outcome because more people are thinking about the effects of smoking. They say it's also important to hear the stories of real people whose lives have been affected by smoking. Minnesota Public Radio's Brent Wolfe has the story of a woman from Rochester.
April 30, 1998 - Americans are hungry for spiritual meaning... many are searching for 'reason' in life. As part of our continuing series on religion in everyday life...Minnesota Public Radio has asked individuals to to reflect on what faith means to them... and the role it plays in their lives. Dr. Cheraghe-arzu Khalid (chur-AH-gee ar-ZOO CALL-eed) is a Muslim woman living in Rochester. Khalid says faith is a part of everything she does. Dr. Cheraghe-arzu Khalid (chur-AH-gee ar-ZOO CALL-eed) is a physician from Pakistan who lives in Rochester. Sun 28-MAY 11:23:49 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
April 6, 1998 - Many businesses in the tornado battered town of Le Center plan to resume operations this week. Le Center's industrial park south of town and a nearby mobile home park were hardest hit in the storms. The town has been successful at luring small manufacturing firms which brought an estimated 400 jobs to Le Center. As Minnesota Public Radio's Brent Wolfe reports, repairing as much as 15 million dollars worth of tornado damage is an added challenge for small companies struggling to expand their businesses.