Over the decades, MPR has presented the many different perspectives of Minnesota politics and politicians. This collection is home to a multitude speeches, interviews and debates on the issues of the day. Important topics of civil rights, environment, crime, budget, legislation, and campaigns are addressed.
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March 21, 1996 -
March 28, 1996 - Midday discusses the 1996 Education Bill and changes in public education with guests DFL State Senator Larry Pogemiller, the chair of the Senate Education Committee; and Republican State Senator Gen Olson. Guests also answer listeners questions.
March 28, 1996 - Martin Sabo, U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th District, shares his opposition on Congress passage of a line-item veto ability for a U.S. President.
April 2, 1996 - The defense has rested its case in the federal fraud trial of State Senator Skip Finn. Finn and two other tribal officials are charged with embezzling more than one-million-dollars from a self-insurance fund that Finn set-up for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.
April 3, 1996 - State Senator Ted Mondale comments on decision at State Capitol to expand existing Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, rather than building a new one at another site.
April 12, 1996 - Midday presents "Renewing the Social Contract,” a special three-hour program that looks at the issue of economic insecurity across the country as society moves into the information age.
April 13, 1996 - A federal jury has found State Senator Harold Skip Finn guilty on 12 of 22 felony counts yesterday. Finn and two tribal officials of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe were accused of stealing more than one-million-dollars from the Band's self-insurance fund and conspiring to defraud the Government.
April 18, 1996 - Minneapolis officials say they're outraged by Governor Carlson's veto of funding for expansion of the city's convention center. The $12-million dollar convention center cut was the project in the $38-million dollars Carlson trimmed from the half-billion dollar bonding bill.
April 24, 1996 - State senator Skip Finn will resign. The Cass Lake DFLer awaits sentencing on charges related to taking money from a tribal insurance fund he set up for the Leech Lake Band of Chippewa. But no sooner did legislative leaders close the book on one legislative ethics case, they re-opened another.
May 1, 1996 - MPR’s Gar Eichten interviews U.S. Senator Rod Grams about raising gas taxes across the country and discussion of repeal of federal gas tax increase.