December 14, 1976 - Professor Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer and a mathematician at Cambridge University in England, speaking at Nobel Conference XII - The Nature of the Physical Universe held at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter. This is a short dinner speech made during conference, where Hoyle shares personal anecdotes of fellow scientists.
December 20, 1976 - Senator Gary Hart of Colorado; J. Kevin Murphy, president of KMA Industries; Howard Rowan, economic editor of the Washington Post; and Robert D. Lilley, retired president of AT&T, discuss government regulation of business at First National Forum on Business, Government and the Public Interest.
December 21, 1976 - James C. Miller, president's council on wage and price stability; Michael K. Evans, president of Chase Econometric Association; and David Pittle, vice chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, discuss government regulation of business at First National Forum on Business, Government and the Public Interest. This is the second program of a three-part series reporting on the First National Forum on Business. Government and the Public Interest.
December 22, 1976 - Harry Holiday, president of Armco Steel Corp; Senator Edmund Muskie; Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former Johnson aide; Walter Heller, University of Minnesota Economics; and Cornell Maier, president of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp, discuss government regulation of business at First National Forum on Business, Government and the Public Interest.
December 24, 1976 - Truman Capote reads and speaks about his autobiographical story, A Christmas Memory, as part of the 7th Annual University of North Dakota Writer's Conference in Grand Forks. The conference was held on March 1976 and entitled “New Journalism and the Novel.”
December 28, 1976 - Excerpts from a hearing on welfare reform, held by U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn. The hearing features testimony from welfare recipients and from several Minnesota community officials.
January 8, 1977 - In 1967 the legislature created the Metropolitan Council to address problems like waste disposal, transit, and urban sprawl. In this annual meeting of the Citizens League, members discuss the origins of the Metropolitan Council, where it is going, and the implications in other areas for this type of approach to regional government.
January 24, 1977 - Professor Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer and a mathematician at Cambridge University in England, speaking at Nobel Conference XII - The Nature of the Physical Universe held at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter. Hoyle's speech was titled "An Astronomer's View of the Evolution of Man."
January 25, 1977 - Governor Rudy Perpich's budget speech to the legislature. Included is analysis by MPR's legislative experts Debbie Gage and Bob Potter.
February 3, 1977 - Highlight speeches from second Minnesota Horizons conference, a seminar for state legislators, sponsored by the State Planning Agency and the Commission on Minnesota's Future, designed to show lawmakers and citizens some of the long-range problems the state faces. This part of conference focuses on population changes, and the effects it has on state. Speakers include: State demographer Hazel Reinhardt, on the nature of population change Ed Hunter, Deputy Director of the State Planning Agency, on the changing state labor force Jim Solum, Director of the Local and Urban Affairs Office of the Planning Agency, on housing needs in the next 10-15 years