October 28, 1997 - Midday offers live two-hour coverage of the legislative Special Session with a debate on the Twins ballpark/stadium in the Minnesota Senate. Debate includes gambling as a funding source. MPR reporter Martin Kaste joins Gary Eichten to provide analysis as debate plays out.
October 30, 1997 - As part of a collection of profile reports on candidates for Minneapolis mayor, MPR’s Dan Olson looks at incumbent Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton and her political tenure in the city.
November 5, 1997 - Midday discusses 1998 election results with political analysts Bob Meek, a Democrat; and Nancy Longley, a Republican, to get their perspectives. Topics include Twin Cities mayoral races. Listeners call in with questions.
November 14, 1997 - MPR’s Martin Kaste reports that in the aftermath of the Minnesota lawmakers' vote to defeat the Twins stadium bill (voting 84 to 47 against the package), Governor Arne Carlson has offered a eulogy of sorts, seeing it as the "last, best hope" to keep the baseball team in Minnesota.
January 12, 1998 - Attorney General Janet Reno meets today with people fighting crime in several Minneapolis neighborhoods. The public meeting at Abbott Northwestern Hospital comes as various interests in Minneapolis plan strategy for stemming the city's narcotics trade.
January 12, 1998 - Attorney General Janet Reno says Minnesota needs to control the state's drug problem by putting offenders in prison and then treating their addiction. Reno told an audience in Minneapolis this morning not to become complacent because the homicide rate in Minneapolis is down.
January 15, 1998 - The son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is in the Twin Cities today to mark his late father's birthday, and to spread a message of diversity. Martin Luther King THE THIRD is the second oldest of the four children of the late Dr. King and Coretta Scott King, and he continues to carry out his father's work in civil rights by leading "Americans United for Affirmative Action" based in Atlanta. I asked him what he thinks of the way America celebrates the holiday named in honor of his father.
February 2, 1998 - MPR’s Mary Stucky matches up the content of the State-of-the-State addresses through Governor Arne Carlson’s tenure. His speeches over the years reflect the changing fortunes of the state and ups and downs in Carlson’s relationship with state lawmakers.
February 13, 1998 - A Westminster Town Hall Forum address by former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. Rita Dove's speech is entitled "The Poet's Voice."
February 25, 1998 - A Twin Cities speech by public radio host Ira Glass, host of "This American Life." He spoke as part of the MPR Broadcast Journalist Series, and talked about radio story-telling.