May 19, 1998 - The Minnesota Vikings sale could be back to square one if the offer from author Tom Clancy doesn't pick up some momentum soon. Clancy missed an important meeting with NFL owners in Miami yesterday. The league rejected his request for a one week delay and, instead, ordered him to have the deal firmed up by tomorrow. Jeff Agrest is an associate editor with Pro-Football Weekly in Chicago.
May 18, 1998 - Jurors who sat through three and a half months of Minnesota's tobacco trial are still frustrated that they never got to deliver a verdict, so they plan to finish the job themselves. The case ended in a seven billion dollar settlement on May 8th, just hours before the jury would have begun deliberations. David Olson of White Bear Lake sat on the jury. He says jurors discussed getting together to determine what their verdict might have been almost since the time the settlement was announced. David Olson of White Bear Lake, one of the jurors in the Minnesota tobacco trial. Sun 28-MAY 11:07:59 MPR NewsPro Archive - We
May 15, 1998 - The history center will be celebrating the life of one of Minnesota's most famous living artists this weekend--George Morrison. The Grand Portage native was born in a small Ojibwe community in 1919, and spent years living in New York, where he made a reputation for himself as an abstract expressionist and hung out with artists like Jackson Pollack and Willim DeKooning. Morrison moved back to Minnesota in the seventies and still lives and paints up on the North Shore of lake superior. His wood mosiacs and abstract totem poles are in galleries around the world and even in the White House sculpture garden. It was in Grand Marais that Morrison met St. Paul writer Margot Fortunato Galt. The two collaborated on a book just published by the Historical Society called "Turning the Feather Around: My Life in Art." Galt says other books have been written ABOUT Morrison, but this one is in his own words.
May 15, 1998 - The Minnesota History Center will be celebrating the life of one of Minnesota's most famous living artists this weekend--George Morrison. The Grand Portage native was born in a small Ojibwe community in 1919, and spent years living in New York, where he made a reputation for himself as an abstract expressionist and hung out with artists like Jackson Pollack and Willim DeKooning. Morrison moved back to Minnesota in the seventies and still lives and paints up on the North Shore of Lake Superior. His wood mosiacs and abstract totem poles are in galleries around the world and even in the White House sculpture garden. It was in Grand Marais that Morrison met St. Paul writer Margo Fortunato Galt. The two collaborated on a book just published by the Minnesota Historical Society called "Turning the Feather Around: My Life in Art." Galt says other books have been written ABOUT Morrison, but this one is in his own words:
May 14, 1998 - It's been unseasonably warm and humid this afternoon with temps reaching into the nineties in some parts of the state. Lifeguards aren't on duty yet at municipal lakes, and public pools aren't open...but the according to Jennifer Lauerman at the Como Zoo big crowds turned up there to enjoy the afternoon: Jennifer Lauerman is with the Como Zoo in St. Paul. Sun 28-MAY 11:09:28 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
May 12, 1998 - Health researchers say Minnesota's tobacco settlement offers an unprecendented chance to reduce teen smoking. The settlement includes a first-ever court ordered ban on marketing to kids. Tobacco companies can no longer give away or sell promotional products like t-shirts or gym bags with cigarette logos on them. Tobacco billboards will be coming down in Minnesota and tobacco companies can't make secret payments for product placement in American movies. The settlement also provides money for stop-smoking programs for children and adults and funds more anti-tobacco research. Dr. Jean Forster, a researcher at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health says what's important is the cumulative effect of these actions:
May 11, 1998 - The Preservation Alliance of Minnesota says Minnesota's lakeshore resorts are among the most endangered historic properties in the state. The group released its annual list of the ten most endangered buildings in the state to mark the beginning of preservation week. The list includes single buildings like the Anoka Amphitheater, the Hotel Lac qui Parle and Nashwauk City Hall and groups of buildings, like the historic parts of St. Peter damaged by this spring's tornadoes, and the Department of the Dakota buildings at Fort Snelling. Jim Fogerty of the Minnesota Historical society says despite resorts being such an important part of the state's economy, several dozen mom and pop resorts close for good each year.
May 8, 1998 - Stanton Glantz is an anti-tobacco researcher who was thrust into the national spotlight in 1994 when he received an anonymous shipment of four-thousand internal tobacco company documents. Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, used the papers as a basis for a book called "The Cigarette Papers," a landmark work about the tobacco industry's deception of the American people. Glantz sees the Minnesota's case as a continuation of his work. You might say if "The Cigarette Papers" provided a keyhole glimpse of the tobacco industry, then the Minnesota trial knocked down the door. Glantz doesn't see a settlement as a defeat, he sees it as another important step in defanging the tobacco industry:
May 1, 1998 - One of the traditions of Mayday is delivering baskets of flowers to friends and neighbors. This year we're in luck: spring is ahead of schedule and even the lilacs are in bloom. For St. Paul writer Patricia Hampl, this is welcome news.
April 28, 1998 - A judge has thrown out a multi-million dollar class-action suit against Hennepin County. Residents and businesses were suing the county for allegedly overcharging for garbage fees. Hennepin County Board Chair Randy Johnson says today's dismissal of the suit ends the county's long legal battle over garbage: Hennepin County Board Chair Randy Johnson. Sun 28-MAY 11:24:35 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001