MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO

Officials at Minnesota Public Radio are battling the state legislature over a new salary disclosure requirement with which the public-broadcasting affiliate doesn’t agree, reports the Associated Press. A member of the state’s legislature, Rep. Marty Seifert, says the organization has declined state money because it doesn’t want to follow a new state rule that requires grantees to disclose salaries of all employees who make more than $100,000 a year. Officials of the radio station deny they turned down money, but instead say they weren’t qualified for the grants. Michael O’Keefe, chairman of the organization’s board committee on government relations, acknowledges that his group believes the disclosure rule is unfair and says that, so far, the radio station is the only organization that has been required to obey the law.