November 8, 2001 - U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone is planning to introduce legislation that would revoke major league baseball's antitrust exemption. The Democrat hopes the move will help prevent the elimination of the Twins. Baseball owners voted Tuesday to fold two financially weak teams. The Twins and the Montreal Expos are reportedly at the top of that list. Wellstone says the owners vote interferes with competition:
October 19, 2001 - Peter Razor's debut novel was a lifetime in the making. The 72-year-old Native American author spent the better part of his adulthood trying to forget his childhood as a ward of the state orphanage in Owatonna. But after his own children kept prodding him for details on their family history, he finally decided it might be worth dredging it all up. In his new memoir, "While the Locust Slept", Razor talks frankly about his life in the orphanage.
October 19, 2001 - Peter Razor's debut novel was a lifetime in the making. The 72-year-old Native American author spent the better part of his adulthood trying to forget his childhood as a ward of the state orphanage in Owatonna. But after his own children kept prodding him for details on their family history, he finally decided it might be worth dredging it all up. In his new memoir, "While the Locust Slept", Razor talks frankly about his life in the orphanage.
October 12, 2001 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson talks with sports commentator Kevin Hennessy about the retirement of Tom Kelly, who has managed the Minnesota Twins manager for 16 seasons. Kelly was skipper for the 1987 & 1991 World Series championship seasons.
October 10, 2001 - The Minnesota Wild take on the Boston Bruins tonight in their home opener at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The Wild already have one tie and one win from weekend road games. While many fans would consider the team's innaugural season a success, the team didn't fare well in the standings and finished with the fewest goals in the N-H-L. To help put more pucks in the net, the Wild signed free agent Andrew Brunette over the summer. The former Atlanta Thrashers left wing finished last season with a career-high 59 points. Brunette says while his main objective with the Wild is to score goals, he thinks he's best at creating opportunities for his teammates.
October 2, 2001 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson talks with reporter Tom Scheck about Governor Ventura’s visit to New York City to meet with bond officials and pay respects at the World Trade Center site, where Ventura and wife Terry delivered 9,000 cards from Minnesota to the relief workers at the World Trade Center.
October 2, 2001 - 120 National Guard members are being trained this week to help out the airport security systems.
October 1, 2001 - ctress Jessica Lange and playwright Sam Shepard will host a special concert next month to raise money to help build a monastery and cultural center for Minnesota's Tibetan community. The November 12th event will include performances by musicians Jackson Browne, Greg Brown, T. Bone Burnett, Sam Phillips and Guy Davis. Writers Louise Erdrich and Richard Ford will also participate. Lange says she has been interested in the study of Buddhism for a long time and has studied with local monks. She says after bouncing around from one classroom to another, she decided to help the monks find a permanent home.
October 1, 2001 - Actress Jessica Lange and playwright Sam Shepard will host a special concert next month to raise money to help build a monastery and cultural center for Minnesota's Tibetan community. The November 12th event will include performances by musicians Jackson Browne, Greg Brown, T. Bone Burnett, Sam Phillips and Guy Davis. Writers Louise Erdrich and Richard Ford will also participate. Lange says she has been interested in the study of Buddhism for a long time and has studied with local monks. She says after bouncing around from one classroom to another, she decided to help the monks find a permanent home.
September 25, 2001 - Many Americans were stunned by the intense hatred harbored by the terrorist hijackers who hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But in other parts of the world, this sentiment, rooted in extreme Islamic fundamentalism, is a part of daily life. And frequently, those who dare speak out against it are persecuted. That's what happened to Tahar Djaout (Tah HAR Jah-OOT). The prominent Algerian writer was murdered as he left his home because, as one of his professed attackers put it, "he wielded a fearsome pen that could have an effect on Islamic sectors." That was in 1993. This month Ruminator Books is publishing the English translation of Djaout's (Jah-OOT's) final manuscript, called "The Last Summer of Reason." Publisher Pearl Kilbride says Ruminator took on the project, because Djaout (Jah-OOT) was a promising writer.