June 5, 1975 - Small alternative K-6 school for difficult students (truant, personal problems) designed for close individual attention. Students are referred, close parent teacher relationship, parents provide support services including teaching courses. Relied on funding through Model Cities program, now this funding ends June 30, unlikely to get funding through public school system, school faces cutbacks. Steve Youngeward, school director; Diane brausberger, parent; Mike Rowan, Mpls Public Schools; Mary Kay Parron, Teacher Alternative education for bad kids, loss of funding.
June 7, 1975 - The Minnesota Libertarian Party holds state convention this weekend. Libertarian Party philosophy is that government must stay out of human affairs as much as possible. Robin Miller, Minnesota chairman: government must be restricted to definding property and rights or governmentt is immoral. Taxation is armed robbery of citizens, taxes should be eliminated. Kay Harroff, Ohio: those who wish to have government have right to do so. All problems in society result from govt regulation and interference and business subsidy. Best market system is laissez faire. Without govt unemployment would disappear, medical costs would drop, discrimination in employment would disappear because everyone would be needed, crime rate would drop. Example: Whoever wants to set up schools would create schools.
June 13, 1975 - MPR’s Debbie Gage reports on comments by U.S. Senator Walter Mondale Senate investigative committee looking at many government agencies, in addition to the CIA. Mondale thinks there could be a web of illegal activities and talks about the need to obtain classified information, and how classification is abused to shield documents from public scrutiny.
June 20, 1975 - Gray Panthers founder Maggie Kuhn talks about mandatory retirement with MPR’s Bill Siemering. Maggie Kuhn speaks at a North Dakota Seniors United Meeting.
June 25, 1975 - James Reston, poet and former director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, speaks about the poetry of Mao Tse Tung.
June 25, 1975 - MPR’s Debbie Gage reports on community public testimony regarding abuse accusations of Minneapolis police. Reports includes commentary from Willie Mae Jennings and and Spike Moss.
June 29, 1975 - Poet Robert Bly reads his poems and the works of others in a talk given at Saint John's University Forum. Bly also gives his viewpoints on life and his philosophical impressions.
July 16, 1975 - MPR’s Greg Barron reports on differences between men and women in insurance industry policies. Betty Howard, director of Women's Division of Minnesota Department of Human Rights, discusses the disparity between women and men in terms of obtaining insurance, particulary in the case of the newly divorced.
July 16, 1975 - An audio clip of Betty Howard, director of Women's Division of Minnesota Department of Human Rights, on the disparity in coverage and access to insurance between women and men.
July 16, 1975 - William Kunstler, lawyer and Civil Rights activist, states that the Pine Ridge murder trial's lastest prevailing story is that the two FBI agents were killed with a 45 caliber grease gun. Kunstler claims earlier stories on the topic are completely false, and discusses some of the details of the events and trial, which was held in St. Paul.