December 13, 2001 -
November 30, 2001 - It's World AIDS Day tomorrow, and thousands of people are expected to observe the day with educational conferences, candlelight vigils, and fundraisers. World AIDS Day started with a call from a World Summit of Ministers of Health in 1988, and is the only international day of coordinated action against AIDS. Here in Minnesota, over 6500 cases of HIV and AIDS have been reported since the disease was first detected, and a new case is still diagnosed about every 26 hours. The Minnesota World AIDS Day committee has planned a free conference tonight, intended help the public better understand HIV and how it is spread. Chi Ellis is a co-chair of tonight's event, and director of the HIV and AIDS division at The City, Inc in Minneapolis. She says the committee has several things on tonight's agenda.
November 30, 2001 - University of Minnesota meteorologist and climatologist Mark Seeley, on the golden November and its stormy finish.
November 30, 2001 - An Alabama businessman says he's interested in buying the Minnesota Twins. Donald Watkins is a practicing attorney and Chairman of the Board for Alamerica Bank in Birmingham, Alabama. He is reportedly worth 1.5 billion dollars. Watkins, who would be the first African-American to own a major league baseball team, has put in an application to buy the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, but he says Minnesotans have drawn his attention to the Twins.
November 16, 2001 - MPR's Morning Edition, Nov 16, 2001 Topic: The new monthly and seasonal climate outlooks The Climate Predicition Center will release these on Thursday afternoon (around 2 pm).
October 23, 2001 - Governor Ventura took some verbal shots at the state's two largest employee unions, the media and the legislature today. The Governor spoke on MPR's Midmorning with Katherine Lanpher. Ventura says he thinks state employees should be prohibited from going on strike.
October 19, 2001 - Health officials say fewer people than originally thought were exposed to anthrax at the U.S. Capitol. Thirty-one people originally tested positive, but futher tests show three of them were not exposed to the bacteria. Results also came back negative today for another 13-hundred congressional staff members tested for anthrax exposure. The staffers were tested after a letter containing anthrax was mailed to Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Allison Dobson, an aide to Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone, is among those tested. She says staffers are very relieved.
October 4, 2001 - Hobbit Travel had to lay off 35 employees, but were able to hire seven back. The travel business is building back up after September 11th.
October 4, 2001 - Senator talks about those who are unemployed are afraid of the unknown and how his economic stimulus plan will help comfort them.
October 3, 2001 - In the days before the September 11th attack, FBI authorities in Minneapolis tried --and failed-- to get a warrant to search the computer of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui (Moo-SOW-ee). Moussaoui was taken into custody in Minnesota after raising suspicions at a Twin Cities flight school. After his arrest, officials asked FBI headquarters in Washington for permission to search Moussaoui's hard drive, but were told they didn't have enough evidence to justify a surveillance. Daniel Klaidman (KLIDE-man) is Washington Bureau Chief for Newsweek and one of the reporters who broke the story in the most recent issue of the magazine. He says the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA (FIZE-uh), provides specific critieria for getting a warrant on a foreign national.