July 4, 2000 - MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews Cathy Quinn, a crew leader on the eastern end of the Gunflint Trail. She says it may be two years before the clean-up is complete and speaks to the enormity of change to landscape.
July 3, 2000 - MPR’s Lorna Benson talks with Kevin Hennessy, an analyst for Total Sports Publications, about the Minnesota Twins signing starting pitcher Brad Radke to a new four-year contract worth a reported $36 million. The deal will keep the right-hander with the club through 2004. Radke joined the Twins in 1995. He would have been eligible for free agency at the end of this season.
June 27, 2000 - MPR’s Lorna Benson talks with reporter Dan Gunderson about Governor Jesse Ventura’s fourth leg of Tour 2000. The Governor began his day in Moorhead and by tomorrow will visit 12 Northwestern Minnesota cities to talk about flood relief, the state of agriculture, and business development.
June 13, 2000 - The Victorian grandeur of St. Paul's Summit Avenue and the dusty, noisy sewing rooms of the Pillsbury flour mills provide the backdrop for Minnesota native Mary Sharratt's debut novel "Summit Avenue." Set at the dawn of the first World War, Sharratt's tale follows the experiences of a young German immigrant who travels to America after the death of her mother, in the hopes of creating a better life. Sharratt says this period of American history is particularly interesting because of the many changes in society.
May 24, 2000 - Memories are easy to come by for anyone who sifts through piles of old family photographs. But what about pictures of people you've never met and places you've never been? For author Lawrence Sutin, these images were even more useful than a family album in sparking his memories. In his new book, "A Postcard Memoir", Sutin relies on 97 antique postcards to help chronicle moments in his life. Sutin says he first began collecting old postcards during the 1970s.
April 12, 2000 - MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews filmmaker Greg Stiever on his film Poles Apart. This documentary includes Ann Bancroft and her feelings during the expedition through the lens of her diary. [Content Warning: This audio discusses suicidal ideations]
March 8, 2000 - MPR’s Lorna Benson talks with composer Cooper Moore on his music direction of "The Darker Face of the Earth."
January 27, 2000 - MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews Verna Simpkins on the new Girl Scouts patch to honor Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen.
January 5, 2000 - Minneapolis' unmarked police cars will no longer be equiped with sirens. Chief of police Robert Olson says detectives should be investigating crimes, not making emergency runs. But some detectives say the equipment could help them catch criminals. Olson says he's making the change for safety reasons: Minneapolis Police Chief Robert Olson. Thu 25-MAY 23:32:07 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
December 30, 1999 - At a meeting in Omaha this week, 14 lawmakers from six midwestern states came up with several ideas they hope will give farmers more control over their livelihoods and cash in their pockets. The suggestions ranged from enacting a producer's bill of rights to requiring labeling of genetically modified crops to setting a minimum price for commodities. Representative Ted Winter is a Democrat from Fulda in southwestern Minnesota. He says if the states which produce most of a given commodity can join together to support a minimum price, farmers could get the kind of minimum wage protection other workers enjoy.