Monday, March 2

9:00 am: On Friday, Governor Carlson proposed bigger rebates for taxpayers as he announced the state revenue surplus would be $592 million dollars MORE than previously projected. Legislators now have nearly $ 2 BILLION dollars to save, spend or give back in tax cuts. JOHN RABE and his guests after nine will debate what to do with state surplus...and we hope you'll join in the discussion. GUESTS: DFL-State Senator John Hottinger and Republican State Representative Henry Todd Van Dellen.

10:00 am: John Rabe's guests after ten say that radical intellectual views are eroding traditional standards of truth and justice...and that this has serious consequences for our legal system. GUESTS: University of Minnesota law professors Suzanna Sherry and Daniel Farber are the authors of Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law. It's published by Oxford University Press.

Tuesday, March 3

9:00 am: John Rabe's guest after nine says President Clinton needs to invoke executive privilege in the Lewinsky case to protect the office of the presidency. GUEST: Thomas Sargentich is Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law in Washington, D-C.

10:00 am: John Rabe talks with Star Tribune commentary editor Eric Ringham about publishing prisoners' commentaries. A contributing inmate, Christopher Boyce, was recently put under stricter conditions at Oak Park Heights after he wrote an Opinion piece for the Strib, and Ringham worries there will be a chilling effect on future contributions. The warden says he's only protecting Boyce.

Wednesday, March 4

9:00 am: Yesterday, President Clinton endorsed legislation that calls on states to lower their legal threshold for drunken driving to a blood alcohol content level of .08 percent. But, JOHN RABE's guest after nine opposes the proposal. We'll find out why and look forward to your comments and questions as well. GUEST: John Berglund, Executive Director of the Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association.

10:00 am: John Rabe's guest after ten says that schools need to do more to ensure poor kids get an equal chance to succeed in life. GUEST: Gene Maeroff is director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also the author of Altered Destinies: Making Life Better for Schoolchildren in Need. It's published by St. Martin's Press.

Thursday, March 5

9:00 am: At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, critics charged that Microsoft is abusing its considerable power in the marketplace. But, JOHN RABE's guest after nine disagrees. GUEST: Tom DiLorenzo, Professor of Economics at Loyola College in Maryland.

10:00 am: New standards for high school students are set to begin this fall. But a new group says that the standards are too experimental and will lead to a loss of local school control. Join John Rabe after ten for a discussion of these new guidelines, called the Profile of Learning. GUEST: Kim Ross with Minnesotans for Quality Education. He's principal of Houston High School in Southeastern Minnesota.
Minnesotans For Quality Education has a website: http://www.winonaweb.com/mfqe

Friday, March 6

9:00 am: Should Lake Champlain be designated one of the Great Lakes? GUEST: Dr. Michael Donahue, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Commission and Adjunct Professor of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ALSO: Ellen Marsden, Assistant Professor of Fisheries Biology at the University of Vermont in Burlington.

10:00 am: Should checking be banned from youth hockey? John Rabe's guest after ten says checking causes too many injuries and leads to aggressive behavior. GUEST: Bill Roberts is a family physician with Minn Health Family Physicians in White Bear Lake. He's been a tournament physician for state high school hockey tournaments and several other sports. He's also on the medicine advisory committee for the MN state high school league. He has researched youth hockey injuries.