Monday, April 11, 2011
Minnesota Public Radio Stories
Minn. House GOP & DFL leaders define major issues
Conference committees start work on the major budget bills this week. The House GOP Speaker and DFL Minority Leader outline their strategies to address the $5 billion deficit in the final six weeks of the session.11:00 a.m.GuestsRep. Kurt Zellers: Speaker of the Minnesota House (R-Maple Grove)Rep. Paul Thissen: House Minority Leader (DFL-Minneapolis)More from MPRLawmakers submit bill for new Vikings stadium (04/08/2011)Minn. GOP leaders want final budget talks to start (04/07/2011)Resources
The story behind the Emancipation Proclamation
David Rubenstein, managing director of The Carlyle Group, discusses why President Abraham Lincoln decided to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, and how it ended up changing the course of the Civil War and the country. Rubenstein spoke from last summer's Aspen Ideas Festival.12:00 p.m.More from MPRWashington: the 'blackest name' in America (02/20/2011)Small Minn. town to finally get Civil War memorial (11/11/2010)Songs of War (07/30/2009)Resources
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