January 22, 1974 - Paul Samuelson, winner of the 1970 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, speaking at Nobel Conference X: The Quest for Peace held at Gustavus Adolphus College. Samuelson's speech was titled “Economics and Peace.”
February 12, 1974 - Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe speaking at a symposium held at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. Wolfe’s topic was on the conflict of interest between industries and professionals in the medical services fields, the availability of information from the medical industry and medical services fields, and the exclusion of consumers from information in the medical delivery field (drug industry especially).
August 1, 1974 - Midwest Governors Panel Discussion on Food Power with Congressman Paul Findley, Dr. Lester Brown, Dr. Norman Borlaug, and panel chairman Hubert Humphrey.
September 19, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on comments from Bruce McLaury, president of the Brookings institution, who makes suggestions to combat inflation at an economic summit meeting during the Ford Administration.
October 3, 1974 - Graham Watt, director of the Federal Office of Revenue Sharing, discusses possible, yet at the time unknown, cuts and/or reduction of expenditures to 1975 or 1976 federal budgets to alleviate concerns of inflation. Concerns from local and state governments regarding federal moneys and potential losses to revenue sharing are also discussed.
November 4, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on Reverend Jesse Jackson’s visit to the Twin Cities. In a speech, Jackson says local inner city shopping complex project is evidence of what can be done when people want something bad enough.
November 5, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eicthen talks with Phil Getts, deputy director of the Minnesota Energy Agency, about heating prices going up due to potential coal shortage. Getz states that utility companies will have to switch over to oil as a coal strike looms on the horizon.
December 17, 1974 - John Boland, state legislator and chairman of the Metropolitan Council, talks about the state of the region to the Citizens League annual meeting.
January 29, 1975 - Charles P. Reinert, Ph.D. Dept. of Chemistry/Physics at Southwest Minnesota State College in Marshall, discusses agriculture and energy. Dr. Reinert was a member of the Governor's Energy Policy Task Force for the State of Minnesota.
March 11, 1975 - The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce sponsored the 29th annual Farm Forum, bringing together about 2000 Upper Midwest farmers and representatives of agribusiness to participate in panel discussions and hear from a variety of experts on national and international agricultural issues. One of the major addresses heard at that forum was by Dr. James D. McQuigg, an authority on world weather patterns and Director of the University of Missouri's Center for Climate and Environmental Assessment.