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April 10, 1996 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter reports on the Bovey Police Department, which may cease to exist due to financial costs for the small city. Bovey is located on the northern edge of the Iron Range in Minnesota and there is an open debate in town on if that will be trouble for the town.
April 12, 1996 - As Minnesota begins to awaken from a long winter hibernation, one true sign of spring can be found in trees coming back to life, their sap flowing from roots to buds. Monks at Saint John's University in Collegeville are in the midst of collecting sap to make maple syrup, a tradition as much a part of the monastery as baking bread and daily prayers.
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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 15, 1996 - Many people say small government is better because its more accessible and can act quickly to solve problems, but local government has its own problems. Mark Steil of Mainstreet Radio highlights an example of that in the southern Minnesota town of Kasota, where quarrels with the city council and mayor might be every bit as nasty as those found in Washington D.C., turning neighbor against neighbor and leaving scars which can last years.
April 16, 1996 - A new state report says Twin Cities minorities with developmental disabilities are more likely to be sent to Cambridge state hospital than are whites, and are less likely to get the more sought-after home-based services. Minorities make up twenty percent of new admissions to the Cambridge state hospital since 1992, a proportion more than three times that of minorities in the state, and twice the minority population of Hennepin County. State Senator Linda Berglin of Minneapolis says she finds the report "disturbing." She asked for the data after several African-American parents complained they'd been denied in-home services that are routinely given to white families with disabled children. State officials say the higher rate of institutionalization among minorities is not necessarily the result of discrimination. In the first of three reports on state programs for the developmentally disabled, Minnesota Public Radio's John Biewen examines the case of an African American mother who charges that she and her mentally retarded son
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