Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
February 4, 1974 - Unknown speaker says the problem of national health insurance can be split into two parts. One part is financing, the other is the delivery system. National health insurance only addresses the first problem: how to get dollars to people who need to buy care. The second problem concerns doctors and hospitals and their performance. The speaker talks about lessons to be learned from Medicare, which was instituted five years ago. Health services shifted from the middle class to the old and the poor, and prices for services escalated much more than anyone expected.
February 4, 1974 - Speaker James? Ikehoff says while there have been two incidents of trucker violence in Minnesota and one in Wisconsin no injuries have been reported.
February 4, 1974 - Voices from the Reservation (Part One). Differing viewpoints from Ogalala Sioux residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation who have been divided over the occupation of Wounded Knee in the Spring of 1973 are shared. Kevin McKiernan reports.
February 5, 1974 - Banks talks about lawyers for the trial. Banks: It was the Oglala Sioux who made the appeal on Feb 27 and no lawyer could make that kind of that opening statement, none of these lawyers at least, with exception of Ramone Robideau, could make an opening statement as an Indian person himself, and in this case, an Oglala person. I would feel that none of these attorneys can convey that kind of message to the jury.
February 5, 1974 - Dennis Banks on Oglala Sioux and trial. Banks: We?re gong to remind the (jurors?), of course, of the call from the Oglala, we?re going to remind them of the responsibilities that this government has failed to live up to in the past, these many years since the treaty of 1868 was signed.
February 5, 1974 - This summary of today's agenda includes committee meetings focusing on supplemental security income, acquisition of parkland, liquor on campus, abolishing legal distinctions based on sex, and a number of bills concerning the right of individuals to keep information private, an important area in the age of data banks and the modern capability of computerizing everybody?s life.
February 5, 1974 - Independent truck owners and operators presented a list of demands to the governor?s office. Leo Conzemius and Ken Nelson say the fuel crisis is causing them to raise prices. The truckers? demands include a roll back of fuel prices to May 15, 1973, speed limits no lower than 65 mph, less harassment and uniform license plates good in all states.
February 5, 1974 - The trucker slowdown and strike is affecting grocery store supply and food distribution. Bill Hannan says he?s optimistic most large stores will outlast the truckers? strike due to a two week inventory in warehouses. However both he and Hugh Cosgrove, executive director of the Minnesota Food Retailers Association, urge consumers not to panic buy and hoard, Cosgrove says the news media has caused some panic buying; this has been completely unnecessary. For example a few weeks ago some press reported a shortage of toilet tissue. People panicked and bought ahead even though there was no shortage. He doesn?t foresee price increases because of shortages.
February 5, 1974 - Voices from the Reservation (Part Two). Comments by residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973 and the coming tribal election (7 February 1974) between Russell Means and Richard Wilson. Kevin McKiernan reports.
February 6, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on Minnesota State Senate vote against the “Ban the Can” bill. In debate before the vote, bill author Win Borden stated he wants an environmental rights bill to address jobs lost due to environmental protection measures; Senator Arnie Ulland claimed the bill is discriminatory as it doesn’t mention wine or whiskey bottlers or out-of-state suppliers; and Senator Robert North remarked that despite talk about cleaning up the environment and saving natural resources, no action is taken and all we get is rhetoric.