April 12, 1978 -
April 11, 1973 - Interview with (first name unknown) Stern about the need for a "no loophole" tax system. This would benefit people who get income from wages and salaries, which is most everyone. Their taxes would be reduced. Right now Congress allows rich to manipulate income in tax system they pay zero tax. Mythology exists about capital gains tax rates.
April 11, 1973 - cable bill could cover whole state or just metro area. What is a workable approach?
April 11, 1973 - Speaker says cable industry has claimed the bill is superfluous on one hand, while detrimental to the industry on the other hand. He says cable industry?s purpose is to kill the bill.
April 10, 1973 - Hayakawa says students are serious and studying now, and today?s freshmen aren?t interested in demonstrations as their predecessors were four years ago. He says he took a hard line against violence and disruption on campus, but not campus activism. When asked about jargon used by students he says the widespread use of obscenities is a tactic used by radicals to shock and shut down discussion; it?s anti-intellectual. There?s a poverty of vocabulary of students in the last few years; you can carry on en enormous conversation with a vocabulary of about fifty words. This reduces all experience into one blur.
March 23, 1973 - Sherry Chenoweth talks about a bill that would require octane rating to be disclosed to consumers. This would give consumers information about the minimum quality of gas required by a car, and would be actual factual information rather than meaningless descriptions such as ?regular, premium, super premium? that even the oil companies can?t agree about. She says Chicago is the only city in the nation where stations must post gas octane ratings. The city council there passed the ordinance despite strong opposition from car manufacturers and oil companies claiming this couldn?t be done. She said an FTC study finds average consumer overbuys gas which is too rich for car by $50 a year, which doesn?t do anything to increase car functioning, thus wasting that money. She answered a question about a connection with the rising price of gas saying if we know what we?re buying maybe we can buy lower grade and save money. She said the consumer today really does not know anything about the gasoline he is buying for his automobile.
March 23, 1973 - Sherry Chenoweth says there?s a need for a federal consumer protection agency. She says there are a number of federal agencies that are supposed to be working for the consumer, such as the FDA, FTC, Highway and traffic safety administration, Yet by the fragmentation and bureaucracy in Washington the consumer is not as well served as he should be. It?s a better idea to bring it all together. No state, city, county can do the whole job of protecting the consumer. We live in industrialized society, most goods move on interstate commerce,. She was asked about whether has she noticed any decrease in complaints coming to the state office from Minneapolis and St. Paul, which have their own consumer protection agencies, because they?ve been handled at city level? Chenoweth replies she supposes a slight decrease in both core cities, but both agencies are so new they don?t? have a large load of consumer complaints yet. There?s a problem with the local agencies because they don?t resemble each other, they?re in different units of government. She?d like to see a strong state agency with branch offices in areas of population concentration such as Mankato, Rochester, Duluth, Moorhead.
March 5, 1973 - Gloria Steinem talks feminism, women's rights, reproductive rights, abortion, birth control, and population control.
February 13, 1973 - February 13, 1973
February 6, 1973 - A myriad of questions comes to the fore when determining the future needs of mass transit for residents of the Twin Cities. A debate in the Minnesota State Senate's Urban Affairs Committee sheds light on some of the issues.