Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
May 6, 1989 - Don Willeke, chairman of the Minnesota State Shade Tree Advisory Committee; and Dr. David French, professor of plant pathology and forestry resources at the University of Minnesota, discuss tree diseases, treatments, and tree planting at the start of Arbor Month. Willeke and French also answer listener questions.
May 8, 1989 - Amory Lovins, founder and research director of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass, Colorado, discusses his organization. Other topics include energy, environment concerns, and renewal. Lovins also answers listener questions.
May 10, 1989 - Michael Wright, CEO of Supervalu and chairman of the Minnesota Business Partnership and finance commissioner; and Tom Triplett, state finance commissioner of Minnesota, discuss state and local government spending and taxes. Topic of cap on state spending campaign is highlighted. Wright and Triplett also answer listener questions.
May 16, 1989 - Dr. Curt Anderson, professor of economics at the University of Minnesota Duluth, speaking at the Compass Project symposium held at the College of St. Scholastica. Anderson’s address was on results of survey regarding the level and quality of employment in Duluth. The Compass Project surveyed households, key informants or community leaders, human service agencies, and examined reams of existing data, like previous studies and demographics of Duluth. The survey identified four primary areas of concern: employment, housing, financial hardship and health care.
May 16, 1989 - Sister Kathleen Hofer, president of St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, and chairwoman of the Compass committee on physical health care, speaking at the Compass Project symposium held at the College of St. Scholastica. Hofer’s address was on the topic of affordable health care in Duluth. The Compass Project surveyed households, key informants or community leaders, human service agencies, and examined reams of existing data, like previous studies and demographics of Duluth. The survey identified four primary areas of concern: employment, housing, financial hardship and health care.
May 16, 1989 - Steve Chadwick, Duluth Community Action Program executive director, speaking at the Compass Project symposium held at the College of St. Scholastica. Chadwick’s address was on the topic of financial hardship in Duluth. The Compass Project surveyed households, key informants or community leaders, human service agencies, and examined reams of existing data, like previous studies and demographics of Duluth. The survey identified four primary areas of concern: employment, housing, financial hardship and health care.
May 17, 1989 - Russell Ewald, the retiring executive vice-president of the McKnight Foundation, speaking upon receipt of the A.A. Heckman Community Service Award. Ewald’s address was on the topic “The Many Faces of Philanthropy.” Russell Ewald has spent the last forty years serving as an Episcopal minister and doing foundation work.
May 26, 1989 - A tribute to the late University of Minnesota political science professor, Mulford Q. Sibley. Program features his popular speech entitled, "My Last Lecture," as well as excerpts from an interview on Midday in June, 1982, and excerpts from a call-in program.
June 5, 1989 - Socorro Diokno, head of the Free Legal Assistance Group in the Philippines, discusses human rights in the Philippines. Diokno also answers listener questions. FLAG provides legal advice to Filipinos who have been victims of human rights abuses. Listener participation.
June 11, 1989 - Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist and author of "A Brief History of Time”, speaking in Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota, as part of the Abigail and John Van Vleck lecture series. As Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at England's Cambridge University, Hawking occupies a chair once held by Isaac Newton. Hawking is renowned for his theories of black holes and the structure of space-time. He found that black holes - dense objects with gravity so strong even light can't escape - emit radiation just outside the boundary beyond which nothing can overcome the pull of gravity. He also initiated the concept that the continuity of space-time breaks down at infinitesimally small distances. Hawking has suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and now speaks about 10 words a minute with the aid of a computer voice synthesizer. By preparing speeches in advance, however, he can "speak" at a normal rate, although with an American accent.