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Archive for December 6 - 10, 2004
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Monday, Dec. 6, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Plugging the budget gap
Once again Minnesota faces a budget gap--$700 million, ballooning to as much as $1.4 billion once inflation is taken into account. Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he still plans to cover the projected shortfall without raising taxes, but will DFL gains in the legislature make it hard for the governor to stick by his guns? Will the state be able to find new revenue from other sources? Will it be forced to to cut popular programs?
Guests:
Dan McElroy, Gov. Tim Pawlenty's chief of staff.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb
C-SPAN President and CEO Brian Lamb speaks live at the National Press Club in Washington. Lamb helped found C-SPAN, which has been broadcasting unfiltered news events--including the deliberations of the U.S. Congress--since 1979.
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Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio America's intelligence overhaul
Congressional leaders say they have resolved their disagreements and are poised to pass a sweeping intelligence reform bill based on the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission. What was the hold up in overhauling the U.S. intelligence services? What did Congress finally agree to? Will it be effective in preventing future terrorist attacks?
Guests:
Michael Hurley, deputy director of 9-11 Public Discourse Project, a privately funded public outreach organization founded by the members of the 9-11 Commission. Hurley, a Minnesota native, served as senior counsel and counter-terrorism team leader for the 9-11 Commission.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Chanukah Lights
Now in its second decade, Chanukah Lights showcases short stories that explore Chanukah traditions in everyday life. This year's collection includes writings by Allegra Goodman, Gloria De Vidas Kirchheimer, Laura Kraus Melmed, Ariel Dorfman and Leslea Newman.
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Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Finding more money for the schools
Minnesota school officials say they've cut all they can and it's time for the state to come up with more money for the public schools in Minnesota. Gov. Tim Pawlenty's Chief of Staff Dan McElroy says that inflationary increases are in the cards, but that they will be tied to reforms and "accountability measures." How much more education money will there be this year, and will it be enough?
Guests:
Education Commissioner Alice Seagren.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio The next four years: Bush's agenda
Norman Ornstein, one of America's foremost political analysts, says George W. Bush doesn't want to be a "caretaker president" during his second term in the White House. Ornstein says Bush wants his next four years to be "transformational," overhauling social security and the tax code. Ornstein participated in a panel discussion at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute on Monday.
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Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Sen. Norm Coleman
Sen. Norm Coleman made national headlines last week when he called for Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the United Nations, to resign his post. Coleman chairs a Senate subcommittee that is investigating the Oil-for-Food program the U.N. conducted in Iraq from 1995-2003. Coleman said that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein diverted some $21 billion from the program for his own purposes in "the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N."
Guests:
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio What can Minnesota learn from Canadian schools?
Gov. Tim Pawlenty is leading a delegation of Minnesota education officials to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Thursday and Friday to get a firsthand look at the education system there. In 1973 Edmonton pioneered a decentralized model of school management, where schools are forced to compete with each other for students. William Ouchi, a professor of management at UCLA, gave this lecture on the Edmonton model earlier this year at a Minnesota Meeting event in Minneapolis.
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Friday, Dec. 10, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Vikings legend Carl Eller
When former Minnesota Viking Carl Eller was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this summer, he vowed to use the honor to lead young African-American males "toward the great colleges and universities of our nation, not to prisons and jail cells." Eller will be honored during the half-time ceremony at Sunday's Vikings game.
Guests:
Carl Eller played for the Minnesota Vikings from 1964 to 1979. (Photo by David Maxwell/Getty Images)

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Carving Up the Vote
The news this election year was filled with reports about glitchy voting machines, faulty voter rolls, and polling-place intimidation. But one hugely influential issue got little attention: gerrymandering. Politicians have been tinkering with the boundaries of their electoral districts for decades, but this new documentary from American RadioWorks explores how the practice has exploded over the last five years and led to the least competitive race for the U.S. House of Representatives in memory.
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