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11/06/2000 Candidates Wield Sharp Rhetoric in Final Debate A sense of urgency prevailed at the final debate of U.S. Senate candidates Sunday night. With the general election capping the campaign Tuesday, James Gibson, Mark Dayton, and Rod Grams displayed a harsher tone at the Fitzgerald Theater. But none of the candidates strayed from the dominant themes of the campaign: health care and Social Security.
09/10/2000 Four Candidates, Few Differences The candidates for the DFL nomination for U.S. Senate squared off in the final debate of the primary election season Sunday night in Saint Paul. But their efforts to separate themselves from each other failed, as the debate revealed more about what they have in common.
06/24/1999 The Name Game The arrest of a Richfield man on the suspicion that he abducted Katie Poirier from a Moose Lake convenience store has reignited a debate in Minnesota newsrooms over whether the identity of suspects should be identified before they're charged.
05/19/1999 Where's My Money? How the new sales-tax rebate will work.
03/31/1999 Joe Williams, 1918-1999 Williams gave the blues a new dimension. MPR's John Rabe recalls an interview with him before a set at the Dakota.
05/08/1998 Minnesota Tobacco Trial Has National Impact When Minnesota's tobacco trial started, momentum toward a national deal for tobacco companies faltered.
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