March 25, 1999 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports that Mille Lacs Ojibwe leaders called for cooperation and friendship after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of treaty rights. The decision affirmed an 1837 agreement allowing eight tribes to fish and hunt without state regulation in east-central Minnesota.
April 7, 1999 - Minnesota's U.S. Senators Paul Wellstone and Rod Grams, give the annual Frank Premack Lecture sponsored by the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Minnesota Journalism Center.
April 13, 1999 - MPR’s Eric Jansen reports on community complaints regarding Minneapolis Police Department’s CODEFOR program. Minneapolis’ mayor and police chief say CODEFOR has dramatically reduced crime in the city. Critics and civil rights groups claim the computer-assisted program that targets neighborhoods based on crime patterns encourages police harassment and makes some residents feel like prisoners in their own homes.
April 26, 1999 - Broadcast of Czech President Vaclac Havel's speech at Macalester College Monday morning. He will receive honorary degrees from Macalester and from the University of St. Thomas at this event. His speech is titled, "Toward a Civil Society."
April 26, 1999 - Czech president Vaclav Havel, a poet and playwright, says freedoms taken away by totalitarian leaders can be restored overnight on paper. But he warned today in a speech in St. Paul keeping a democracy alive requires a civil society - one where people are free to associate with others and where the power of government is limited and decentralized. The former Communist government in Czechoslavakia banned Havel's writing, and put him prison three times. Ten years ago he helped create the political movement which negotiated the "velvet revolution" - the Czech Republic's peaceful handover of power from Communists to a democracy.
April 27, 1999 - Janet Yellen, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, addresses the Minnesota Meeting. Yellen's speech was titled, "The Baby Boom Retires: How the Coming 'Age Wave' Will Transform America and the World--And What We Can Do About it Now." Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
May 10, 1999 - A Twin Cities speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen. She was the featured speaker at last month's Pen Pals Lecture series sponsored by the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. Anna Quindlen titled her speech, and her most recent book, How Reading Changed My Life.
May 27, 1999 - Scott Ritter, former UNSCOM Chief Weapons Inspector and author of Endgame, addresses the Minnesota Meeting. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
May 28, 1999 - Governor Jesse Ventura's speech to the Society of Professional Journalists meeting this week in Minneapolis. Following the speech, Gary Eichten talks to former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson about how the media cover the governor and other important stories.
June 22, 1999 - Noted historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her work as a presidential historian and her love of baseball in a speech given recently at the annual meeting of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association.