As a decades long staple to the listening audience, Morning Edition combines a host program in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington and Los Angeles, bringing news from overnight and information throughout the state and world. Programming includes reports and interviews.
September 28, 1992 - Morning Edition’s Cathy Wurzer gets commentary from MPR’s Robin Gehl on how the 1992 Twins season as close of regular season approaches. While statistically still in the hunt, postseason is now only a dream.
October 2, 1992 - Morning Edition broadcasts a BBC Outlook interview with writer and performer Garrison Keillor, who comments on writing, the Midwest, politics, and New York City. Segment opens with Keillor reading.
November 6, 1992 - MPR’s Chris Roberts talks to the playwright and cast behind "We are Hmong," an original play collaboratively produced in St. Paul. The play explores the generational and cultural tug-of-war that characterizes Hmong family life in America.
November 6, 1992 - MPR’s Mike Edgerly interviews veteran writers Tim O'Brien and Donna Marie from The Loft Literary Center, where they will hold a discussion on the experience and aftermath of Vietnam veterans.
November 9, 1992 - MPR’s Donna Nicholson profiles veterans and their loved ones who find an outlet and a form of therapy in the act of writing about the Vietnam and Korean War experience.
December 15, 1992 - MPR’s Elizabeth Stawicki reports on Mound-Westonka High School’s decision to remove Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline from the school’s curriculum. Report includes various interviews on various perspectives of the action, from those who deem it as censorship, to those who see it as protecting teenage readers.
December 15, 1992 - MPR’s Mike Edgerly reads a segment from The Lords of Discipline. The Pat Conroy novel was removed from the curriculum at Mound-Westonka High School.
January 18, 1993 - An excerpt of columnist and journalist Carl Rowan speaking about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at annual King celebration held at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.
January 18, 1993 - An excerpt of columnist and journalist Carl Rowan speaking about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at annual King celebration held at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.
January 20, 1993 - A Morning Edition interview with actor and playwright Gregory Alan Williams about Great American History Theatre’s production of The Life and Times of Deacon A.L. Wiley. Williams also discusses his personal experience in the 1992 Los Angeles riots.