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 12, 1975 - Lieutenant Governor Rudy Perpich says a third political party is in the making and there?s not much difference between the two parties on a national level. Washington is out of touch with spending decisions.
May 7, 1975 - The destruction and transport of a Missouri company's cache of the dangerous chemical Dioxin is discussed here. Debate concerns how and where to destroy the substance, and that a company located in Minnesota may be able to handle the process. The chemical cache in question had been linked to human and animal contamination when it was mixed with tar and spread on Missouri roads.
May 7, 1975 - Committee meetings, low pay, and growth of legislature are all singled out, among other issues, by the Citizen's League as to why the service life span of many legislators is markedly low.
April 1, 1975 - Helen Gilbert, masters in folklore and professor at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, speaking before the Spring Area Women's Conference at the Germain Hotel in St. Cloud. The title of the speech was "Women in Mythology."
February 14, 1975 - MPR’s Debbie Gage reports on local hearing about juvenile delinquents. Segment includes commentary from various individuals…including Gwyn Jones-Davis, head of Antioch Communiversity in North Minneapolis, speaking on juvenile delinquent rehabilitation programs at a hearing on behalf of defendant J.E.C.
February 14, 1975 - Gwyn Jones-Davis, head of Antioch Communiversity in North Minneapolis, speaks on juvenile delinquent rehabilitation programs at a hearing on behalf of defendant J.E.C. Report includes statements by Hennepin County Court Services Director Kenneth Young; Hennepin County District Court Judge Lindsay Arthur; Minnesota Corrections Commissioner Kenneth Schoen; Hennepin County Attorneys Representative Leonard Broad; and Jim Krieger of the Legal Rights Center, Inc. in Minneapolis, attorney for J.E.C.
February 2, 1975 - Marcela Trujillo Gaitan speaks at Women's Political Caucus about cultural values of Chicana women working within environment of Anglo centric women’s movement.
October 17, 1974 - Seminar at Hamline University on Peace Corps in Latin America. Panel consists of Geoffrey Barnard, Jan Fiola, Tom Sinks, Mary Dalbottom, Doris Vincent, and Frederick Gridley. These former volunteers tried to evaluate the Peace Corps as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy and an instrument of social change.
October 4, 1974 - Robert B. Carleson, U.S. Commissioner of Welfare and key policy advisor on welfare, talks about the difficulties in controlling welfare fraud. Seldom has there been a policy on prosecution of welfare fraud. Additionally, the paperwork from state to state varied to such a degree that it's difficult to detect fraud. Richard Rizley, Minneapolis Chief of the Fraud Unit, talks about the amount of fraud vs. the amount they are prosecuting and the variety of types of fraud.