A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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April 3, 1981 - MPR’s Bob Potter reports on Minnesota State Capital commitee discussion of gay rights bill in effort to add sexual orientation to the list of protected statuses in the Minnesota Human Rights Act.
April 3, 1981 - The Minnesota human rights law currently forbids discrimination on the basis of faces, sex, age, marital status among other things. Repeal of the gay rights in the city of St. Paul left Minneapolis as the only community in the state that protects homosexuals. DFL Representative Karen Clark of Minneapolis led a parade of witnesses before the House Law Reform Subcommittee. She stated that 10 percent of the population is homosexual and that the biggest single area of discrimination is employment. Clark is satisfied with the hearing results for the time being.
April 4, 1981 - On this episode of the KCUR program Letters on the Air, an interview and reading with writer and artist George Hitchcock. New Letters on the Air is an audio literary magazine exploring the works of American writers and comes from New Letters magazine, a literary quarterly of fine writing published at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
April 7, 1981 - Humanist Bruce Bomier shares his views on teen sex. Bomier sees something missing in sex education…learning about relationships.
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April 9, 1981 - Coverage of a press conference on the state budget held at the state capitol. Minnesota's Commissioners of Revenue and Finance hold a press conference to announce the shortfall and anticipated deficit in state revenue.
April 10, 1981 - Father Theodore Hesburgh is chairman of the presidential Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy. The commission has presented its final report to Congress and the President and it will soon be brought before Congressional committees for hearings. Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame, addresses the topic "Immigration and Refugees: We need a national policy now" in his speech at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis .
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April 11, 1981 - Peter G. Peterson, former United States secretary of commerce speaking at the Women's Economic Roundtable. Peterson’s address is on the Reagan consensus.