April 27, 1998 - The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has found half the ten feedlots it tested in the past two weeks exceed state standards for hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas. State Agriculture Commissioner Gene Hugoson says the test results are unsettling, but factors such as wind, weather, livestock feed and water, could have influenced the outcome: Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner, Gene Hugoson. Sun 28-MAY 11:25:05 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
April 23, 1998 - Today, Governor Carlson signed a bill designed to help Marvin Windows in its lawsuit against P-P-G, the maker of an allegedly faulty wood preservative. The Legislature passed the measure in a special session this week to clarify state law so businesses can sue other businesses for fraud. Dan Kleinberger teaches business law at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul. He spent six hours testifying on this matter during the special session. He says the new law is an improvement, but it's an OVER-correction: Dan Kleinberger teaches business law at William Mitchell College of
April 23, 1998 - Some visitors to the Mall of America had quite a scare yesterday when the new ride, The Mighty Axe, malfunctioned. Five riders were left hanging upside down for more than an hour. Deanna Gilbert of St. Paul was the first person to be rescued: Deanna Gilbert of St. Paul. All five upside-down riders got $100 in Mall of America gift certificates. Sun 28-MAY 11:32:21 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
April 22, 1998 - Gustavus Adolphus students are adjusting to trailer-classrooms and Saturday classes. This is their first week back on campus, after what turned into a three week spring break, thanks to the tornadoes that struck their campus while they were gone. Karen Delgehausen, is a Gustavus Senior who spent her spring break touring with the college orchestra. Her off-campus house was so badly damaged it's already been torn down. But despite it all, she says it's good to be back.
April 21, 1998 - A choir of Ugandan orphans is touring the Twin Cities this week to spread a message of AIDS awareness. AIDS has hit Uganda particulary hard...one in five adults is HIV positive. In a country of 18 million people... 1.5 million are orphans. Director of the Children's Choir Frank Katoola (Ka-TOH-luh) says his group's "Tour of Light" is intended to spread the story of Uganda and its children: Frank Katoola (Ka-TOH-luh) directs an 18-member choir of Ugandan AIDS orphans. Their 1998 "Tour of Light" makes a stop at the Cedar Cultural Center at 7:30 in Minneapolis tonight. The performance is open to the public.
April 17, 1998 - This is a big weekend for Minnesota writers and literature. Tonight the winners of the tenth annual Minnesota Book Awards will be announced. Then on Sunday, the Marshall festival 5 gets underway. It's a week of readings, roundtables and workshops packed with familiar names...Carol Bly, Robert Bly, Bill Holm and Will Weaver just to name a few. Rosalie Maggio is a writer who's a veteran of both events. She'll be giving a workshop on "Wordsmithing" in Marshall, and she's twice won Minnesota Book Awards. Maggio says the book awards have really grown in stature.
April 17, 1998 - This is a big weekend for Minnesota writers and literature. Tonight the winners of the tenth annual Minnesota Book Awards will be announced. Then on Sunday, the Marshall festival 5 gets underway. It's a week of readings, roundtables and workshops packed with familiar names...Carol Bly, Robert Bly, Bill Holm and Will Weaver just to name a few. Rosalie Maggio is a writer who's a veteran of both events. She'll be giving a workshop on "Wordsmithing" in Marshall, and she's twice won Minnesota Book Awards. Maggio says the book awards have really grown in stature: Rosalie Maggio is a two-time Minnesota Book Award winner. Her most recent book is The New Beacon Book of Quotations for Women.
April 14, 1998 - If your food stamps have been cut, your health may be at risk. Those are the findings of researchers at Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota. Their research, published in tomorrow's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, concludes patients whose food stamps have been cut have a higher incidence of hunger, and poorer health. Dr. Nicole Lurie is a professor of medicine and public health at the University. She discovered the problem after seeing a patient who had stopped taking her insulin because she was no't eating the food needed for the medication to work properly: Dr. Nicole Lurie, a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota.
April 13, 1998 - "I read a book one day and my whole life was changed." So begins the new novel by acclaimed Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk called "The New Life." Critics in the same sentence compare Pamuk's writing to that of Nabakov, Borges, Proust, and Garcia-Marquez. "The New Life" is about a Turkish engineering student whose existence is magically transformed and uprooted by love, political conspiracy, travel and danger simply by the act of reading a book. It's relatively rare that American readers encounter a Turkish novel, much less a Turkish novelist in person, but that's precisely what will happen tonight at the Hungry Mind in St. Paul when Pamuk makes a scheduled stop on his book tour promoting "The New Life." Pamuk says although he's probably the first Turkish author to do an American book tour, he doesn't consider himself an ambassador.
April 13, 1998 - Farmers around Comfrey and LeCenter are asking for volunteers to help clear their fields of tornado debris so they can begin their spring planting. Bill Free-DELL of Lutheran Social Service says the weather delayed an immediate clean-up: Bill Fredell is with Lutheran Social Services. There are buses providing round-trips from the Twin Cities. Sun 28-MAY 11:37:29 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001