March 4, 1974 - Liquor addendum tacked on to bill. Wine provision added to liquor license bill. Legislator Nick Coleman is author. Coleman bite: Says this was added for resorts and restaurants. Actuality continues with more sound from legislature. Also: Senate voted for supplementary welfare assistance for some state aid recipients now covered by federal payments. Senate committee reinstate tax checkoff provision for campaign financing. Campaign contribution changes, bite: Senator Steve Keith. No fault auto insurance. Reporter mentions Rep. Bruce Vento proposal.
March 4, 1974 - Discussion of prospective gas rationing. Speaker agrees with the President that we should not have rationing. Believes we should have standby rationing program. Rationing could not be put into effect before Spring 1975 at the earliest. If there's enough frustration over the allocation program and if consumers request coupon rationing we may have it but it would be chaotic. Oregon plan should be voluntary, if that doesn't work make it mandatory, and if that doesn't work only then should coupon rationing be considered.
March 4, 1974 - Priority for agricultural gasoline over consumers. For limited gas supply agriculture is the most preferred customer in the United States. Agriculture gets gas first, they get 100 percent of their requirements, they are the top priority and motorists generally come out on the bottom, as the individual with the least priority.
April 2, 1974 - Mr. Brown talks about a possible auto mechanics strike that will affect body work, mechanical repair, parts, and other services in the St. Paul, South St. Paul and White Bear areas. Workers want improvements in wages, hospitalization and pensions. After several meetings, including federal mediation, an offer to employees was deemed mediocre. He says employers have to recognize the great increase in the cost of living.
April 26, 1974 - Hooks says too often blacks move out of poverty and forget the brothers and sisters still living where there?s too little. We have to stay together, believe in each other, rid ourselves of self-hate. Hooks, the only black on the FCC, criticized broadcasters and warned them to get their act together, affirmative action and equality is the law of the land and all he wants them to do is to obey the law. Wants to make communications media more responsible. They distort the news, present imbalanced image of black life. Blacks not only able to play basketball, football or sing, they have distinguished scholars, doctors, lawyers and people trying to make things better. Network TV ignores major black events like NAACP awards, but when black crime occurs networks spend two minutes to cover that. We?re tired of that kind of distortion and imagery.
April 26, 1974 - Economist John Kenneth Galbraith says former Secretary of Treasury William Simon will do a "good job" on Wall Street.
May 23, 1974 - Princeton economist Burton Malkiel says market pessimism is unwarranted.
May 23, 1974 - Ralph Nader says Exon is the entity telling America it has an energy shortage. Nader posits that three things are needed to "orchestrate" a shortage: oil company monopolies, White House co-operation, and a cover--in this case,the Arab oil embargo. To counter this inbalance, the public should educate themselves and fight back.
May 23, 1974 - Princeton economist Burton Malkiel makes an economic prediction that inflation is going to fall. Oil prices will drop and food prices will get better.
May 24, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on a Minnesota Supreme Court case decision involving Lawrence International Salon. The ruling states that women hairstylists can now cut men's hair (as opposed to men going to barbers only).