September 12, 2003 - Tomorrow, the Mill City Museum will open near the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis, on the banks of the Mississippi. The museum will tell the story of how Minneapolis came to be the milling capital of the world in the 1880s. The museum is built in the old Washburn A mill, which was almost completely destroyed in a 1991 fire. The mill was once the most technologically advanced and the largest in the world. At peak production, it ground enough flour to make 12 million loaves of bread a day. Tom Meyer was one of the principle architects for the museum, and I met him in the museum courtyard. He says the 1991 fire first seemed like a huge setback to everyone trying to develop the old mill site.
September 4, 2003 -
September 1, 2003 - Beginning this afternoon, you'll hear a new voice on Minnesota Public Radio's All Things Considered. Or more precisely, you'll hear a familiar voice in a new context. National Public Radio veteran David Molpus takes over as the regional host of the program. Molpus spent 28 years at National Public Radio, where he was NPR's Pentagon Correspondent during the Reagan Administration and accompanied the Army's 10th Mountain Division into Haiti during the U.S. intervention. For two years, he co-hosted NPR's Weekend Edition of All Things Considered. He's won more than a dozen awards and honors, including a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Most recently, he covered workplace issues in Tampa, Florida. Molpus came by the studio and explained how he first started working at NPR, in his twenties...
August 21, 2003 - More than 160 priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee have signed a letter arguing that married men should be allowed to enter the priesthood. The letter marks the first time since the mid-1970s that a group of priests has spoken out in favor of loosening the rules on celibacy, said Dean Hoge, a sociologist at Catholic University of America.
August 19, 2003 -
August 18, 2003 - Minnesota Public Radio's Chief Economics Correspondent Chris Farrell discusses the latest economic news.
August 15, 2003 -
August 15, 2003 - Dear all, I included two items for consideration tomorrow......one is a promo announcement for the State Fair Midday broadcast next Thursday ...the other is a promo for the Flood Summit coming up on August 27th in Bloomington (requested by Homeland Security, FEMA, and the DNR).......I realize this will put pressure on our available time to chat, but I will be speedy with it if you like.... I will not be in town on Friday, August 28th (traveling to
August 11, 2003 - Minnesota's political parties are uncommonly far apart in ideology, according to a book about political parties that's due out next year. Joel Paddock, a political science professor at Southwest Missouri State University, took a look at Minnesota's Republican and DFL state party platforms and surveyed party committee members and county party chairs. He compared what he found to similar information from other states... and found the divisions in Minnesota are unusually large.
August 8, 2003 - Remember what happened at Alexandria, MN earlier this summer, at Roseau, MN last June, in the Twin Cities in the Spring of 2001, and all over the state in April of 1997, floods. Minnesota is subject to two kinds of flooding, that due to rapid and abundant spring snow melt, and that due to persistent and intense thunderstorm rainfalls.