June 1, 1998 - Comparing American business with Chinese, Japanese, and Russian businesses.
May 14, 1998 - Dwight Silverman, computer columnist for the Houston Chronicle; and MPR's Jon Gordon talk about the pending anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft. Silverman and Gordon also answer listener questions. Programs begins with report on if traditional industrial anti-trust standards apply to high-tech.
May 12, 1998 - Minnesota's lawsuit against the tobacco industry has transformed the debate over smoking and emboldened the anti-tobacco movement. And as Minnesota Public Radio's Jon Gordon, the Internet is amplifying the significance of the Minnesota trial. FOUR YEARS AGO MEDICAL RESEARCHER STANTON GLANTZ OBTAINED 10,000 PAGES OF PREVIOUSLY SECRET DOCUMENTS FROM TOBACCO COMPANY BROWN AND WILLIAMSON. A YEAR LATER HE PUT THEM ON THE WEB. THESE DOCUMENTS ARE THE BASIS OF GLANTZ'S BOOK THE CIGARETTE PAPERS, WHICH ILLUSTRATES THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT BROWN AND WILLIAMSON SAID IT KNEW ABOUT THE DANGERS OF SMOKING, AND WHAT IT REALLY KNEW. GLANTZ SAYS USING THE NET TRANSFORMED THE TOBACCO DEBATE.
April 24, 1998 - Internet providers cannot be held liable for the information they carry. That, according to a federal judge who has dismissed America Online as a defendant in a 30 (M) million dollar defamation suit. White House adviser Sidney Blumenthal sued A-O-L and gossip columnist Matt Drudge over a report last August accusing Blumenthal of spousal abuse. Drudge -- who's Website appears on A-O-L -- later retracte
April 9, 1998 - SOME POLITICAL ACTIVISTS SAY THE INTERNET MAKES AVERAGE CITIZENS MORE POWERFUL BECAUSE ELECTRONIC MAIL CAN BE A DIRECT PIPELINE TO ELECTED OFFICIALS. HOWEVER, SOME LAWMAKERS SAY THE ELECTRONIC VOICE OF THE PEOPLE IS JUST ANOTHER VOICE TO IGNORE. MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO'S JON GORDON REPORTS. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS BUILT AROUND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, THROUGH VOTING, TOWN MEETINGS, CAUCUSES AND GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUES. POLITICAL SCIENTISTS ARE CONCERNED THAT FEWER PEOPLE ARE GETING INVOLVED, BELIEVING THEIR VOICE DOES NOT MATTER. BUT SOME POLITICAL ACTIVISIST SAY THE INTERNET HAS THE POTENTIAL TO RE-INVIGORATE DEMOCRACY. THE WORLDWIDE WEB IS A CHEAP PLATFORM TO PUBLISH POLITICAL VIEWS. DISCUSSION LISTS GENERATE HEALTHY POLITCAL DEBATE. AND E-MAIL IS A CHEAP, EFFECTIVE WAY TO CO
January 19, 1998 - When deep-pocketed Microsoft rolled out its online entertainment guide "Twin Cities Sidewalk" in July, many people expected it to eventually rule the local online scene. That hasn't happened. In fact, a disappointed Microsoft is expected to announce big changes to Sidewalk as early as this week as it tries to stop the venture from losing so much money. Apparently, not enough people seem to really need a web site that provides lists and reviews of movies, restaurants, and other leisure time activities.
January 3, 1998 - There are many disappointed football fans in Minnesota this morning, after the Vikings lost their playoff game to a superior San Francisco 49ers team at 3Com Park yesterday. Minnesota Public Radio's Jon Gordon reports that there are a few long faces in the San Francisco Bay Area as well.
June 2, 1997 - The Minnesota Zoo's Discovery Bay exhibit opened yesterday in Apple Valley. The grand opening of Discovery Bay had been put on hold after six sharks died. Minnesota Public Radio's Jon Gordon reports.
May 28, 1997 - Minnesota's first Mexican-American school principal is out of a job. The St. Paul Board of Education last night voted to fire Humboldt High School principal Larry Lucio (LOO-see-oh). The move came after several hours of testimony from Lucio's supporters - mostly Hispanics from St. Paul's West Side. Minnesota Public Radio's Jon Gordon reports. Lucio's backers came out in force to convince the school board he's a good principal who's raised test scores, cut the dropout rate and made Latino students feel better about themselves. But it did no good: the Board voted 6-to-1 to support Superintendent Curman Gaines recommendation NOT to renew Lucio's contract after his two-year probationary period.
April 28, 1997 - A NORTHWEST AIRLINES 747 CARGO PLANE DELIVERED 120-THOUSAND-POUNDS OF SUPPLIES FROM THE TWIN CITIES TO THE GRAND FORKS AREA YESTERDAY. TARGET STORES COLLECTED THE GOODS ON SATURDAY. RESIDENTS DONTATED MORE THAN THE AIRPLANE COULD CARRY, SO FIVE SEMI-TRUCKS WILL BRING THE REST IN THE DAYS TO COME. MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO'S JON GORDON REPORTS. ........................................................................... DCART ITEM:9150 TIME:2:58 OUTCUE:soc ........................................................................ TWELVE TRUCKLOADS OF BOTTLED WATER, CLEANING SUPPLIES, TOILETRIES AND MORE WERE TAKEN FROM THE TARGET STOREES TO THE TWIN CITIES AIRPORT SATURDAY. NORTHWEST AIRLINES EMPLOYEES VOLUNTEERED THEIR TIME TO STUFF THE GOOD INTO SILVER CRATES, THEN INTO THE BELLY OF THE BOEING 747,