April 3, 1997 - A House Committee has withdrawn provisions of a bill that would tax monthly access fees to the Internet, following a veto threat by the Governor. Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports.
April 3, 1997 - A House Committee has withdrawn provisions of a bill that would tax monthly access fees to the Internet. The tax provision was deleted following a veto threat by the Governor. Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports.
April 2, 1997 - The Minnesota House took up its version of a Comprehensive Welfare Reform Bill last night. But as Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports, it was an attempt by foes of legal abortion that stalled the bill when its key author then withdrew it from consideration on the floor.
April 1, 1997 - Members of a House Committee have approved a bill to appropriate six-and-a half million-dollars from the state's budget reserve for potential costs associated with plans by Minnesota and Wisconsin Ojibwe to exercise their rights to net and spear fish this spring. Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports.
April 1, 1997 - Members of a House Committee have approved a bill to spend up to six-and-a half million-dollars to keep the peace around Lake Mille Lacs. Members of the Mille lacs band of Ojibwe plan to exercise their rights to net and spear fish this spring. The measure faces its Second committee tomorrow before moving along further in the process, and eventually to House floor. A similar measure passed in a Senate committee. Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports.
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March 28, 1997 - The Pope called for a worldwide end to child prostitution and the growing sex tourism industry. Thailand is among the Asian countries where both problems pose excessive risk to HIV. While HIV infection rates are dropping in Europe and the U.S., health experts warn that HIV is escalating in Asia. Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports on some efforts underway in Thailand to help educate people about the disease.
March 24, 1997 - MPR’s Karen Louise Boothe reports that hundreds of people rallied at the State Capitol on behalf of a bill that would restore the cuts in benefits to legal immigrants in the new federal welfare reform law.
March 24, 1997 - DFL-ers in the Minnesota legislature have released their spending priorities for the biennium. It's the blueprint members of the DFL caucus will work from as they try to move ahead this session with decisions on how to fund legislation. But As Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports...the difference between THEIR plan and what the GOVERNOR wants to spend is about 350-million dollars...and it sets the scene for what could be a showdown in the remaining weeks of the session: The DEMOCRATS want to spend MORE. More on just about everything than what the Governor outlined in HIS 20-point-three billion dollar budget for the biennium. Two MAJOR differences are, the Democrats want to
March 19, 1997 - Expansion of the Minneapolis Convention Center is on the legislature's plate again following the governor's veto of a convention center appropriation last year. The House Economic Development and International Trade Committee takes up the bill today. Minnesota Public Radio's Karen-Louise Boothe reports.