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.
December 17, 1986 - MPR’s Jim Bickal reports that the Minnesota Twins have decided against signing starter pitcher Jack Morris to a multi-year contract.
December 29, 1986 - MPR’s Beth Friend reports on the impact taking place with the Minnesota Orchestra as the organization experiences first season with Edo de Waart as music director. The conductor hopes to win over audiences with programs that highlight contemporary classical compositions, not only centuries old works.
December 31, 1986 - MPR’s Beth Friend visits the Minneapolis home of Charlotte Kula as she prepares latkes in celebration of Hanukkah. Kula shares her thoughts on the recipe and much more.
February 6, 1987 - MPR’s Beth Friend reports on the enduring appreciation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie books. Friend interviews Minnesota author Emilie Buchwald and three North View Elementary School students on what makes Wilder’s work fascinating.
March 26, 1987 - MPR’s Beth Friend reports on Broadway opening of the August Wilson play, Fences.
April 6, 1987 - MPR’s Jim Bickal takes a look at what the 1987 MLB baseball season may hold for the Minnesota Twins. The team has new uniforms, a new manager in Tom Kelly, and field replacement to a less spongy turf.
April 7, 1987 - Howard Sinker, sports commentator for the Minneapolis Star & Tribune, provides a promising outlook that a potentially “good” Minnesota Twins team will take the field during 1987 MLB season. Topics include new manager in Tom Kelly and quality of player roster.
April 8, 1987 - MPR’s Jim Bickal gets fan reactions to the Minnesota Twins new uniforms and new dome turf. One is a winner; the other a mixed bag.
May 15, 1987 - Minneapolis writer Sheila B. Richter is winner of the 1987 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a prize where writers try to write the worst first sentence. MPR’s Loren Omoto reads the “honored” short composition.
July 14, 1987 - MPR’s Jim Bickal hosts a Morning Edition panel discussion about the Minnesota Twins at mid-season. The Twins find themselves in first place of the division at the MLB All-Star Break.