March 27, 1981 - MPR’s Kim Hodgson reports on speech comments regarding toxic waste from journalist Michael Brown, author of the book Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals.
April 10, 1981 - Father Theodore Hesburgh is chairman of the presidential Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy. The commission has presented its final report to Congress and the President and it will soon be brought before Congressional committees for hearings. Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame, addresses the topic "Immigration and Refugees: We need a national policy now" in his speech at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis .
April 11, 1981 - Peter G. Peterson, former United States secretary of commerce speaking at the Women's Economic Roundtable. Peterson’s address is on the Reagan consensus.
April 15, 1981 - Governor Al Quie delivers his second revised budget, with new spending cus and tax increase proposals, DFL leaders respond to the Governor's address.
May 18, 1981 - Governor Al Quie announces his intention to veto the oMinnesotaibus tax bill passed in the House, as well as the bonus tax bill passed by the Senate.
May 29, 1981 - James Gustave Speth, senior fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, speaking at the Humphrey Institute about measures to alleviate the increase of CO2. Speth’s address is titled "Carbon Dioxide Buildup: The Case for Limited Action.” Speth is former chairman of the president's Council on Environmental Quality during the Carter administration.
June 14, 1981 - Proceedings of the United States Senate Field Hearing and High Sulfur Coal Export Conference held June 8–9, 1981, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. This program is on the topic of “Marketing of High Sulfur Coal,” one of a several items addressed at conference. Panel discussions were moderated by United States Senator Charles Percy, United States Representative Paul Simon, and John Castle, Director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs.
June 14, 1981 - Proceedings of the United States Senate Field Hearing and High Sulfur Coal Export Conference held June 8–9, 1981, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. This program is on the topic of “Transportation Factors,” one of a several items addressed at conference. Panel discussions were moderated by United States Senator Charles Percy, United States Representative Paul Simon, and John Castle, Director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs. .
June 14, 1981 - Proceedings of the United States Senate Field Hearing and High Sulfur Coal Export Conference held June 8–9, 1981, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. This program is on the topic of “High Sulfur Coal Exports,” one of a several items addressed at conference. Panel discussions were moderated by United States Senator Charles Percy, United States Representative Paul Simon, and John Castle, Director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs.
June 14, 1981 - Proceedings of the United States Senate Field Hearing and High Sulfur Coal Export Conference held June 8–9, 1981, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. This program is on the topic of “High Sulfur Coal from the Perspective of Foreign Government Officials,” one of a several items addressed at conference. Panel discussions were moderated by United States Senator Charles Percy, United States Representative Paul Simon, and John Castle, Director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs.