August 5, 1999 - A Mainstreet Radio special broadcast of Minnesota Citizens Forum, live from FarmFest in Redwood Falls. In the first hour of program, Minnesota Farm Radio Network’s Tom Rothman hosts a discussion of the importance of a strong rural economy to Minnesota.
July 8, 1999 - The July edition of our Voices of Minnesota Series featuring two Minnesota athletes - Greg Lemond, winner of the Tour de France bicycle race, and Nancy Mudge Cato, a woman who played in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
June 15, 1999 - It's hard to know, just over a week after the news broke, how the merger of Minneapolis -based Honeywell and AlliedSignal will shake out. We don't know exactly how many people will be fired or moved, or how the 114-year old Honeywell will look in five or ten years. But talk to a few longtime Honeywell workers, and you can get a picture of the company's past. Minnesota Public Radio's John Rabe recently spoke with three Honeywell retirees with a combined 1-hundred-8 years of service.
June 3, 1999 - Norman Leyden leads the Minnesota Orchestra's Cabaret Pops concerts at 11 A-M and 8 P-M tomorrow and at 8 Saturday night.
May 26, 1999 - It's almost census time again, when -- theoretically -- every household in America fills out a survey about everyone's favorite subject: themselves. One of the functions of the census is to help the federal government figure out how much money to distribute to cities. In the last census, a lot of people were not counted ... and the money didn't follow. Today (WED), the city of Minneapolis unveiled a new strategy designed to get a more accurate count this time. Minnesota Public Radio's John Rabe reports. At the news conference, Emmett Carson, head of the Minneapolis Foundation, put it plainly:
May 24, 1999 - Monday at noon, about three-dozen University of Minnesota students protested the latest developments in an investigation of the U-of-M athletic department, and won a concession from the U.
May 21, 1999 - "Walking Out of History: The True Story of Shackleton's Endurance Expedition," an American RadioWorks documentary about Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance Antarctica expedition. MPR’s John Rabe presents various interviews, readings, sounds, and commentary.
April 23, 1999 - Former Packer star Reggie White may have disappointed his critics last night in a speech to a conservative group in Minneapolis . As Minnesota Public Radio's John Rabe reports, the Reverend White stayed away from the kind of comments that generated lots of controversy when he addressed the Wisconsin legislature just over a year ago.
April 23, 1999 - You might know Lynda Barry from her NPR commentaries, from her comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, or her novella -- what she called a "novelini" - The Good Times Are Killing Me. Barry has just finished her first novel. Cruddy is an illustrated novel, Barry says based in form on illustrated novels from the turn of the century, with paintings instead of the quirky line drawings of her comic books. Cruddy is definitely an adult book, and is at the same time charming and disturbing. You're charmed by the heroine's spirit given her cruddy life, but then disturbed when you find out "cruddy" doesn't begin to describe it.
April 14, 1999 - A sampling of readings at Minneapolis Public Library in celebration of 1999 National Poetry Month. More than a dozen local luminaries read their favorite poems for a lunchtime audience.