In 2008, Minnesota's voters passed the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution: to protect drinking water sources; to protect, enhance, and restore wetlands, prairies, forests, and fish, game, and wildlife habitat; to preserve arts and cultural heritage; to support parks and trails; and to protect, enhance, and restore lakes, rivers, streams, and groundwater.
Efforts to digitize this initial assortment of thousands of historical audio material was made possible through the Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. A wide range of Minnesota subject matter is represented within this collection.
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September 12, 1974 -
September 12, 1974 -
September 14, 1974 - Interview of administrators, guards and prisoners about tensions at the St. Cloud State Reformatory and the mediation efforts being made to alleviate them.
September 18, 1974 - MPR’s Greg Barron reports on an injunction halting lumbering in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Cannoe Area was granted by Minnesota District Court Judge Miles Lord.
September 19, 1974 - Attorney Rebecca Knittles discusses District Court Judge Miles Lord makes a ruling in an aMinnesotaesty case that the defendent has been given a sentence, there for he is exempt from serving alternative service.
September 19, 1974 - Judge Lord says Reserve Mining should cease operations at Peter Mitchell pit and begin taking ore from a different mine not containing taconite.
September 21, 1974 - Media artist Robert Whitman put together a "call-in" new program for the common man, and the "event" had a fascinating appeal.
September 28, 1974 - MPR reporter Lee Mathis with U. S. Representative Al Quie, GOP-Minnesota at a state language conference in Rochester, Minnesota.
October 6, 1974 - Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Center's grand opening.