March 12, 2001 - > >Northwest Airlines mechiancs remain on the job today under Presidential order >as a three member Bush Administration appointed pannel begins an >investigation of airline's labor dispute. >Negotiatiors for the airline and union worked with the National Mediation >Board through out the weekend but failed to reach an agreement on the four >and a half year old contract dispute. > >The union is now talking about striking Northwest in sixty days after the
March 9, 2001 - Mark Seeley, with this week's weather.
March 7, 2001 - A new baseball stadium funding bill is being drafted at the State Capitol. This latest plan would have the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis present competing proposals for a new stadium and then a nuetral panel would pick the best plan. This is similar to the model used when Minneapolis beat out Bloomington as the preferred site for the Metrodome. Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson is backing this concept and he joins us now.
March 7, 2001 - As users anticipate the end of unlimited access to music files through Napster, many are scrambling to download as many songs as possible while they still can. Napster has always been particularly popular on college campuses and at times students have overwhelmed Internet connections because of the amount of material being downloaded. Joel Clemmer is the Vice President for Library and Information Services at Macalester College in St. Paul. He says he's not too concerned about being swamped by Napster users because of precautions taken about a year ago.
March 6, 2001 - A bill that would require Minnesotans to show picture identification in order to vote had a hearing yesterday before a House elections subcommittee. The bill would also require voters to provide the last four digits of their social security number, which would allow checking against criminal records or death certificates to reduce fraudulent voting. After the election problems in Florida, many states are considering election reform. On the line now to discuss what other states are doing is Jenny Drage, a policy specialist for the National Conference of State Legislatures.
March 5, 2001 -
March 5, 2001 - Today we are remembering the life of Harold Stassen who died yesterday at the age of 93. Stassen had a long career in politics. In 1938 at the age of 31 he became the youngest man ever elected governor of Minnesota. One man who knew Stassen throughout his career in politics was Elmer L. Andersen. Andersen, who would also go on to become Minnesota's governor, got his start in politics as a campaign strategist for Stassen in 1938. That's former govenor, Elmer L Anderson. Coming up on MIdday at Noon today, a special tribute to Harold Stassen, who died yesterday at the age of 93.
February 28, 2001 - Minneapolis recording company can do what Napster cannot do for the music industry.
February 28, 2001 - MPR commentator Dale Connelly with his humorous Robert Frost inspired poem "Stopping by the Links on a Snowy Evening."
February 27, 2001 - David Powell is a Vice-President of Marketing for 3M.