March 8, 2002 - Indiana-based Guidant Corporation is planning to double the size of its operations in the Twin Cities over the next 20 years. The medical technology company's Cardiac Rhythm Management, or C-R-M group is based in Arden Hills. It employs almost 25-hundred people. Guidant's plans are the topic of an article in today's edition of the journal City Business. Sam Black is the reporter who wrote the piece. He says the Guidant campus COULD grow into one of the biggest in the Twin Cities.
March 8, 2002 - Hope you are bracing for some nasty weather on Friday and Saturday.....record snowfall for Saturday is 10.9 inches in the Twin Cities (1918).
March 7, 2002 -
March 7, 2002 - The federal government has deported ten Somalis with five more facing possible deportation. Federal officials say the Somalis, along with Somalis from other states, were flown to Mogadishu in mid-February. Officials say 8 of the ten deportees from Minnesota had been arrested from 1999 through Janaury of this year for offenses ranging from sex crimes to drugs to assaults. The other two had allegedly entered the U.S. illegally. U.S. attorney Tom Heffelfinger says all of those deported had broken the law.
February 18, 2002 - The contributions of African-Americans in the railroad industry will be the topic of a forum later today commemorating Black History Month. African-American labor helped build the railroads that were key to the development of the United States and the Upper Midwest. That work sparked the black labor movement. It also inspired many black inventors who's ideas helped the industry grow. Joining us on the line is Brian Clark, an electrical engineer with Minneapolis' light rail project, and one of the keynote speakers at today's forum.
February 13, 2002 - The Minneapolis group that's struggled over where to build a new central library has finally made a decision. The Central Library Implementation Committee had two choices. One was the "North block" at the intersection of Hennepin and Washington Avenues downtown, and the other was the "South block," the next block to the south. And the decision was to put the new library on the South block. Diane Hofstede (HOFF-sted) is a member of the committee and also a member of the Library's board. She says the North block is still important
February 4, 2002 - On this special Morning Edition held in Duluth, MPR’s Cathy Wurzer talks with poet Barton Sutter about his fascination with Lake Superior. Sutter also reads a poem about lake.
February 4, 2002 - We're live in Duluth this morning, at the WSCN studios. It's a special broadcast looking at the people and places of this area. Well, of course, politics is always an area of interest in the Twin Ports. People keep a close ear on what's happening in St. Paul. It's the second week of Session 2002, and the state's budget remains on center stage at the Capitol, where legislators got off to a flying start a week ago. Lawmakers have to close a projected nearly 2-billion dollar budget shortfall, and Governor Jesse Ventura has urged them to act quickly. Joining us on the line is Minnesota Public Radio's capitol bureau chief Laura McCallum.
January 21, 2002 -
January 21, 2002 -