November 20, 1987 - MPR’s Mike Mulcahy talks with Eric Stoltz, an aid to Minnesota State Senator Allen Spear, about the third annual Gay & Lesbian Political Conference, which is being held in Minneapolis. Topics of conference include 1988 elections and AIDS epidemic.
December 4, 1987 - MPR’s Mary Losure reports on battle of farm foreclosures. Oak Valley Farm, owned by the Jordahls’, and their fight with Farmers Home Administration, is highlighted.
January 2, 1988 - MPR's Mainstreet Radio team presents a documentary entitled "Against the Grain," which collects conversations with rural Minnesotans about how they are adapting to the forces of economic change.
January 25, 1988 - Mainstreet Radio's Leif Enger interviews northern Minnesotan farmer Floyd Cartwright and others about weather “prophesying.”
February 4, 1988 - Midday presents the documentary “Liberty's Children: A Celebration of Citizenship," produced by KLSE’s Carol Gunderson. The half-hour documentary profiles a Mayo Clinic medical student from Mexico and his struggle to become an American citizen. It also includes commentary from others on their experience in becoming a U.S. citizen.
March 5, 1988 - On this Midday call-in program, MPR’s Bob Potter interviews James Oberstar, U.S. congressman from Minnesota's 8th district, about current national and world issues. Topics include Northwest Airlines and land rights, amongst others. Oberstar also answers listeners questions.
March 31, 1988 - MPR’s Kate Moos interviews AIDS Jacqui Banaszynski about her work “Aids in the Heartland,” which won her the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Banaszynski and her photographer, Jean Pieri followed two gay Minnesota farmers - Dick Hanson and his partner, Bert Henningson - one of whom had contracted AIDS.
April 25, 1988 - As part of a Mainstreet Radio series on rural education, Rachel Reabe reports on the merging of schools in Buhl and Mountian Iron, Minnnesota.
April 26, 1988 - As part of a Mainstreet Radio series on rural education, Rachel Reabe reports that with declining enrollment at the high school in Motley, a plan has been set to incorporate the Motley students into the nearby Staples high school.
April 27, 1988 - As part of a Mainstreet Radio series on rural education, John Biewen reports on Norman County West, a school created out of the combination of Halsted and Hendrum-Perley schools.