Stand-alone producers blanketed the election with coverage. Their tapes covered several of the ward general and primary elections. Ward 11 primary and general election debates were covered by Mark Engebretson. Patricia Y covered a 7th Ward debate. Audrey Johnson submitted the 10th Ward debate. Mark Engebretson also covered the Ward 13 debate. Conventions also got covered: Art Roy submitted the DFL Women's Caucus meeting, while B. Paul Harmon taped the Reform Party's endorsing convention. Not to be left out, the library board candidate's debate was done by MTN Production Services, and a park board debate was taped by the indefatigable Mark Engebretson. A very well produced half hour showcase of the entire DFL slate was submitted by Brian Gorecki.

If you watched MTN at all this fall you probably didn't miss coverage of the mayoral race. Two debates were on MTN: the first was produced by Patricia Y, and the second was produced by Art Cunningham. Both debates were carried live, and Sheldon Mains arranged to have the audio portion of the second debate carried on the Internet - kudos MTN Systems Administrator Mark Lutgen for his work on that project. Unfortunately Mayor Sayles-Belton couldn't make the second debate, so it turned out a touch one-sided. Nancy Isham turned in a political piece taped at a Citi-Parents United event featuring mayoral challenger Barbara Carlson. John Ritter turned in a nice piece of issue advocacy around the need for a better airport. Mike Wisniewski, who produces for the Minneapolis Property Rights Action Committee, turned out to be one of the most prolific producers of the election season. Mike fearlessly waded into the political snakepit surrounding the related issues of crime, housing, urban development, and tenant-city-landlord relations. In all, MTN stand alone producers turned out over 20 hours of election coverage.