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.
February 3, 1992 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter takes a look at rural ministry in southern Minnesota. Winter interviews numerous theologians about the unique nature of church in agriculture communities.
May 8, 1992 - MPR’s Mark Heistad does a phone interview with Andy Vores, a Welsh classical music and opera composer whose has been named Composer-in-Residence at Bemidji State University.
May 26, 1992 - MPR’s Kate Smith visits Toivola-Meadowlands Charter, one of the very first charter schools in the state. Reabe talks with educators and parents on their thoughts on the alternative to public school.
July 23, 1992 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports that a new Target in Alexandria, along with other big box retailers, threaten small town main street businesses. The result on street is changing storefronts and niche selling. Enger talks with a local store owner, Target manager, local official, and an economics professor about the impact on community.
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.
January 29, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews archaeologist Scott Anfinson about shipwrecks in Lake Superior and the efforts to both explore and protect shipwrecks along the North Shore. Anfinson is from the Minnesota Historical Society.
March 4, 1993 - MPR’s Mary Losure visits an “urban” farm on the outskirts of Cottage Grove as it and other farms try to figure out how to survive as development sprawl and assessments loom.
March 9, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger profiles The Up North Family Theatre in Brainerd, Minnesota. The children’s theatre founder hopes to create an important arts institution in the area.
April 2, 1993 - MPR’s Elizabeth Stawicki reports on the unique challenges local Black police officers face in the line of duty. The Black Police Officers Association is attempting to bridge the gap between police and the community and better support from within department.
April 7, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Mark Steil looks at the Granger Creamery, which is one of the only ones left for local farmers to utilize for business in southern Minnesota. The creamery is one of only two in state that still excepts milk in cans. This is important to Amish farmers, who will not use bulk tanks.