May 13, 1974 - State Senator Spear talks about the formation of the Minnesota Committee for Gay Rights, a broad-based movement for gay rights in Minnesota, to bring gay rights into the mainstream of the human rights movement. The goal is to achieve full equality for gay people and rights in Minnesota, change the law, public attitude, educate people, politicize, and create a better life in Minnesota for gay people.
May 18, 1974 - Minnesota's senior citizens air their grievances before a panel of senators and representatives.
May 22, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten talks with Robert Provost, board member of the Minnesota Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, about programs available to parents in assisting their child.
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).
May 24, 1974 - MPR’s Sam Ford reports on Stokely Carmichael speech at the AIM Headquarters in St. Paul. Carmichael states capitalism is major oppressor of people of color in this country and has decimated Indian land. Carmichael concludes it can only be changed through a revolutionary struggle with bloodshed.
May 24, 1974 - A discussion concerning open-pit and underground copper-nickel mining operations which International Nickel has proposed to begin near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and the Town of Ely, Minnesota. Panel members include John Herman, Sierra Club attorney; Victor Arnold, State Planning Agency; William Bryce, Department of Natural Resources-Division of Mines; Miron Heinselman, US Forest Service; and Dean Ramstad, of International Nickel.
May 24, 1974 - Community education will be examined in a new Minneapolis film, "A Sense of Community." Senator Jerome Hughs of the Senate Education Committee, Minneapolis School Superintendent John Davis, William Grimshaw of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and filmmaker Lee Bobker called a press conference to discuss the making of the film.