November 14, 2000 - From Minnesota Public Radio this is Future Tense for November 14th. I'm Jon Gordon. Today, a report from Comdex. -- A couple hundred thousand people have descended on Las Vegas for the tech industry's biggest event of the year: the Comdex trade show. The Houston Chronicle's Dwight Silverman is there. He says one of notable product introductions so far is the TABLET computer from Microsoft. (silverman q/a) We reached the Houston Chronicle's Dwight Silverman at the Comdex show in Las Vegas. This is Future Tense...I'm Jon Gordon.
November 13, 2000 -
November 13, 2000 -
November 13, 2000 - Sam Modderman (MOD er man) is the county auditor and treasurer in Kandiyohi county.
November 10, 2000 -
November 10, 2000 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews meteorologist Mark Seeley about the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940. The storm brought strong winds which averaged over 25 mph for a 24-hour period and gusted over 60 mph. Rain turned to sleet and snow in the late morning on November 11th, and worsened to blizzard conditions very rapidly, as snowfall rates approached 4 inches per hour. The air temperature fell by as much as 40 degrees over 24 hours and inch thick ice coated poles and phone lines, breaking many of them. 49 Minnesotans perished; many duck hunters caught off-guard by the storm.
November 9, 2000 - A solution to the odor problem at a Saint Paul ethanol plant may still be months away... but city officials say new steps on the legal and environmental fronts represent progress toward taming the smell coming from Gopher State Ethanol. Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen reports. Saint Paul Mayor Norm Coleman and city council member Chris Coleman, whose district includes the ethanol plant, announced two new developments in the ongoing saga of the stink. The city and Gopher State Ethanol have entered into an agreement with a non-profit environmental group that will conduct a thorough study of the odor, its causes, and possible long and short-term solutions. In addition, the city council asked the city attorney for a report on what legal leverage Saint Paul may have in its effort to reduce the odor. Chris Coleman, unrelated to the mayor, says the environmental group is the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy or M-C-E-A, which has worked on industrial odor issues at Koch Refinery and Andersen Windows. He says the legal opinion from the city attorney is due on November twenty-second...
November 9, 2000 - Political pundants will be chewing over the results of this election for some time. In Minnesota, tri-partisan government will continue with the House still controlled by Republicans. The Senate led by Democrats. And Jesse Ventura as the state's independant governor. The Govenor's Independence Party in Minnesota didn't come away with many victories on Tuesday. None of its 37 candidates claimed a win. But Senate candidate James Gibson did get 6% of the vote, meaning the party will keep its major party status in the state. Rick McCluhan is the chair of the Independence Party of Minnesota. He's on the line now.
November 9, 2000 -
November 9, 2000 - With all the buzz about the Florida presidential recount, Minnesota may have it's own recount in the 2nd congressional district in the race between David Minge and Mark Kennedy. This wouldn't be the first time Minnesota has waited for an important recount. In 1962 Former Governor Elmer L. Anderson lost to Carl Rolvaag in one of the closest statewide elections in Minnesota history-- by 91 votes. Governor Anderson's been closely following the Florida situation and says his own recount was a lenghy experience.