December 21, 1981 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten talks with MPR reporter Pat Kessler, who details the fight between Governor Al Quie and the Minnesota Legislature over a state budget. Tax provisions are at center of debate.
December 21, 1981 - MPR’s Pat Kessler reports on Minnesota House & Senate passage of budget compromise bill that raises taxes and cuts state budget. Governor Al Quie has stated he will veto controversial measure.
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December 31, 1981 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten interviews Paul Overgaard, Al Quie’s campaign manager about comments from U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz that Governor Quie step aside.
December 31, 1981 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten interviews Tom Mason, Rudy Boschwitz’s press secretary about the senator’s comments to Governor Quie about running for re-election.
January 1, 1982 - MPR’s Connie Goldman goes to the Nantucket to visit poet Linda Pastan. The two talk and read poetry along the sea shore.
January 2, 1982 - Firing Line host William F. Buckley Jr. talks with British author Malcolm Muggeridge about religious faith.
January 2, 1982 - Local commentator Bruce Benidt shares the unpleasant side of hog farms…or more accurately, the odor.
January 4, 1982 - With a federal study released indicating that American children today know less about music and consider art less important than the students in the early 1970s, MPR’s Bob Aronson talks with Margaret Hasse, director of the Minnesota Alliance for Arts and Education, to get her reaction on how it relates to Minnesota.
January 7, 1982 - Morning Edition’s Bob Aronson interviews Minnesota author Monica O’Kane about her book Living With Adult Children: A Helpful Guide for Parents and Grown Children Sharing the Same Roof.