May 29, 1996 - for ATC Wednesday State Republican Party leaders have unveiled their proposed 1996 platform. It's expected to be debated, amended and adopted this week during the state convention in Duluth.
May 29, 1996 - Are Native Americans a racial minority? That's the question before the Minnesota Board of Education later this afternoon, when it considers a request from Native American leaders NOT to be included in the state's new school desegregation rule. The request is an attempt to safe-guard majority-Indian schools.
May 29, 1996 - An IRS agent testified in the White Earth corruption trial that several tribal officials claimed they were in two locations at once. The agent told the court tribal chairman Chip Wadena and officials Rick Clark and Jerry Rawley filed reports showing they attended gaming commission meetings at their casino office while records show they were also traveling out of town. But a defense attorney maintains the agent misled the jury. Tribal Chair Chip Wadena, Rick Clark and Jerry Rawley face federal charges in connection with alleged corruption on the White Earth reservation.
May 29, 1996 - You've probabley noticed this spring, evergreens, especially bushes,aren't doing too well - not living up to their names, actually. It's because many were servely damaged during the harsh weather last winter. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik spoke with some experts about what you should do if you evergreens are looking brown and burnt.
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May 31, 1996 - The 1950s are generally regarded as the sleepy years in our history; the age of Ike Eisenhower, and the elevation of the ideals of the "American Dream". While many Americans were comfortably conforming in the post-war boom years, a group of writers and artists who called themselves "the beat generation" were rebelling. They produced some of the grittiest, ground-breaking work of the 20th-century. A new exhibition at the Walker Art Center, called "Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965," seeks to capture the beat movement in all its complexity.
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June 4, 1996 - At around 6:15 p.m. on June 2, 1996, 11-year-old Byron Phillips was playing with his cousin and a friend on the front porch of the friend's North Minneapolis home. While Phillips was playing, a bullet fired from a passing car hit him in the chest. Phillips died at the scene as a result of the shooting.