November 28, 2001 - MPR’s Jeff Horwich presents a Mainstreet Radio series looking at the growing role of Spanish in the Minnesota work place. Horwich spent an evening with one rural Minnesota police officer helping his department relate to the town's changing population.
November 27, 2001 - MPR’s Jeff Horwich presents a Mainstreet Radio series looking at the growing role of Spanish in the Minnesota work place. The series continues with report on one large Minnesota company finding biligual workers are good for the bottom line.
November 26, 2001 - MPR’s Jeff Horwich presents a Mainstreet Radio series looking at the growing role of Spanish in the Minnesota work place. The series begins in Cold Spring, along conveyor lines of butchered chickens.
November 23, 2001 - St. Cloud works hard to maintain an identity distinct from the Twin Cities. It hasn't helped that St. Cloud has been without local television news for most of its recent history. Stations in Minneapolis occasionally send reporters to central Minnesota. But for the most part the news residents get on their TVs comes from 70 miles away. Now an upstart independent station with a small staff and an unusual format is scrambling to fill the void. Mainstreet Radio's Jeff Horwich reports.
November 19, 2001 - Truth, justice, and the American way have taken up residence outside the St. Cloud Dairy Queen. A brawny guy in a flowing cape is popping up intermittently at busy places in town. He's St. Cloud's self-appointed superhero. His mission: To inspire and reassure. Mainstreet Radio's Jeff Horwich dropped by.
October 29, 2001 - On November 6th, there's only one election for state office. Voters in Morrison and southern Crow Wing counties will replace veteran DFL legislator Steve Wenzel. Wenzel resigned this spring for a job with the U.S. Agriculture Department. Republican Greg Blaine and DFLer Helen McLennan, both of Little Falls, want to represent people in House District 12B. Mainstreet Radio's Jeff Horwich reports from a region rediscovering its political identity.
October 24, 2001 - The architect I.M. Pei once said that if it weren't tucked away in rural Minnesota, the St. John's Abbey Church in Collegeville would be one of the 20th century's most famous pieces of architecture. Today the church turns 40. Four decades after its dedication, the controversial design still leaves visitors both awed and repelled. But Mainstreet Radio's Jeff Horwich finds the church just as loved as ever by those who brought it here.
October 17, 2001 - Mainstreet Radio's Jeff Horwich reports three professors and a student are filing a lawsuit in federal court against St. Cloud State University and the entire MnSCU system, alleging that the school has done too little to deal with antisemitism on campus. St. Cloud State has been studying the problem for more than a year, but those suing the school say the time for studying is over.
October 16, 2001 - In most cases, terms like "free agent," "signing bonus," and "salary cap" would typically refer to professional athletes. But this fall they could be just as valid when talking about the Marshall school district -- or a few others around the state competing to find new ways to pay their teachers. Among hundreds of millions of education dollars, the legislature set aside eight million for a few districts willing to make bold experiments in teacher compensation: Experiments that may stand traditional notions of collective bargaining on their head - and could tie teacher pay to student performance. Mainstreet Radio's Jeff Horwich visited Marshall, where the district and its teachers have already been toying with some new ideas for two years.
October 5, 2001 - Mainstreet Radio’s Jeff Horwich reports on a new grant awarded in central Minnesota that will be a small first step to put more violins, violas, and cellos in the hands of children in smaller school districts.