All Things Considered is a comprehensive source for afternoon news and information provided by various MPR hosts in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington over the decades. The program contains interviews, reports, speeches and breaking coverage.
April 16, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Edgerly interviews Phantom Poet, who shares his frustration with winter. Phantom Poet also reads a poem about spring.
April 21, 1993 - Mary Cadogan, author of Women with Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction, shares stories of individuals from her book.
April 22, 1993 - Rhoda Lewin, a Minnesota-based oral historian and Jewish scholar comments on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as it prepares to open.
April 22, 1993 - American novelist and screenwriter Jay McInerney reads from his book, Brightness Falls.
May 19, 1993 - MPR’s Liz Hannon interviews American author and poet David Mura about Secret Colors, a multi-media performance collaborative piece with Black writer Alexs Pate. The work is about their lives as men of color and Asian American-African American relations.
May 21, 1993 - Award-winning lyricist Richard Engquist, who is the 1993 commencement speaker at Hamline University, talks with MPR’s Lynne Warfel about his view on the state of humanity.
May 28, 1993 - St. Paul resident and commentator Louis Porter II shares his feelings on gun laws after the shooting at a movie theater screening of Menace to Society at Har Mar Mall in Roseville.
May 31, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports on the debate over walleye stocking in the lakes of Minnesota. The DNR used to pride itself on its walleye stocking program with more than 1,200 lakes on the list. It's the largest such effort in the country…but some biologists believe the hatcheries may be a waste of time and money.
May 31, 1993 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham reports from American Booksellers Association Convention in Miami. “Highlights” from the event include the Rock Bottom Remainders party featuring Stephen King, Dave Barry, Barbara Kingsolver, and Amy Tan at the Paragon Club.
June 11, 1993 - MPR’s Perry Finelli interviews Louise King and a Maud Hart Lovelace expert about the beloved Betsy-Tacy children’s book series, written by the Mankato native.