August 1, 2002 - The August edition of the MPR series Voices of Minnesota features riverboat captain Bill Bowell (interviewed by William Wilcoxen) and National Park Service Ranger John Anfinson (interviewed by Kate Smith).
March 14, 2002 - A relatively small, regional railroad, the Dakota Minnesota and Eastern, has a bold plan to expand its range. The proposal takes the DM&E into the Powder River Basin coal fields and requires more than 250 miles of new track in Western South Dakota and Eastern Wyoming. Opponents have sprung up along that new section of railway. They are ranchers concerned about tracks cutting through their land and Native Americans who say the project will trample all over treaty rights. As our series "Tracking the Plains" continues, South Dakota Public Radio's Joshua Welsh reports another point of opposition may be found just under the surface of the ground.
November 14, 2001 - Since September 11-th, the U.S. economy has weakened. Layoffs and job cutbacks hit Hispanic workers especially hard. That's because so many immigrants work in the industries most affected -- food service, hotels and airports. The Hispanic population has been growing dramatically in Minnesota. But with layoffs and other scares like anthrax, some Hispanic immigrants are going home. Minnesota Public Radio's Mary Stucky teamed with a reporter form the newspaper El Norte in Monterrey, Mexico and filed this report. __________________
September 6, 2001 - INTRO IS ON TAPE. Governor Jesse Ventura traveled across southwestern Minnesota today in what he's calling the first leg of "Tour 2001". Ventura is out on Main Street shaking hands and talking about a variety of issues. MPR's Tim Post has been trailing the Governor and is with us now...
August 31, 2001 - In a broadcast from the MPR booth at Minnesota State Fair, Mainstreet Radio’s Rachel Reabe revisits the farmers of Chanarambie Township in Southwestern Minnesota.
July 13, 2001 - Hundreds of employees now out of work at the Farmland Foods meat packaging plant in Albert Lea heard from company officials for the first time today. There is still no word whether the plant will be rebuilt after sustaining major fire damage earlier this week, and as they gathered in a high school auditorium workers expressed worry about lack of detailed information.
December 20, 2000 - The country is turning grey. Recent census projections show within 20 years a quarter of the population will be over 65. That population shift requires numerous changes for cities and counties; including housing, transportation and heath care. While those three areas may seem the most critical, many seniors say they're looking for independent living with plenty to do. And that's become a challenge for the city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Mainstreet radio's Cara Hetland reports:
July 7, 2000 - About 500 people will descend on Sartell Minnesota tomorrow Helms has this report. {There's the Tour de France, there's Wimbeldon in England, and then of course, for the last 20 years, the Apple Duathlon in the small central Minnesota city of Sartell.
July 5, 2000 - A federally funded water project in southwest Minnesota designed to serve farms and small towns is doing business with a large agri-business company, an arrangement which appears to violate federal regulations. The Lincoln Pipestone Rural Water system provides water to almost three thousand farms and rural homeowners and some two dozen small towns and cities. Critics say the company has over-pumped environmentally sensitive areas and they blame the federal agency that funded much of the project for ignoring their own rules about who should get water. Mainstreet Radio's Mark Steil reports:
December 27, 1999 - To close out the millennium, Minnesota Public Radio's All Things Considered presents a look back at Minnesota life in 1900 via a 12-part series, entitled “A Minnesota Century.” This segment, a look back at what was the news at the turn of the last century.