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.
June 12, 1990 - MPR’s Karen Boros interviews Arne Carlson, Minnesota’s state auditor, about his gubernatorial candidacy. The IR gubernatorial candidate says he is not seeking party endorsement to avoid being tied down by what he sees as far right policies and platforms that will alienate the greater electorate.
July 16, 1990 - American anthropologist and author Jack Weatherford describes his book Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World.
July 17, 1990 - MPR’s Kitty Eisele profiles local writer Patricia Hampl, who has been awarded the MacArthur Award Fellowship. It is the latest honor bestowed on the author of numerous well-regarded works, including A Romantic Education and Spillville.
September 24, 1990 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger profiles the St. Cloud baseball team The Rox, which in 1946 became part of the old Northern League that stretched from Wisconsin to Manitoba. The team dissolved in 1971, but Enger finds many locals still have fond memories.
October 31, 1990 - MPR’s Mark Zdechlik reports on a Minnesota “Spook- Zone.” Every year, the Halbert family transforms their yard into an outdoor haunted house of sorts to provide a safe and fun space for kids during Halloween.
November 8, 1990 - MPR’s Mark Heistad gets commentary from Ford Runge, director of Center for International Food and Agriculture at University of Minnesota; and Paul Gruchow, author and educator at St. Olaf College, about the ongoing decline in U.S. farm population, based of census data.
November 15, 1990 - Morning Edition’s Mark Heistad reaches out to Jim Lenfestey, board president for Minnesota Center for Book Arts, as the organization celebrates the 5th anniversary at MCBA. Lenfestey details the energetic environment behind bookmaking.
November 16, 1990 - A Morning Edition interview with Francis Carroll, co-author of The Fires of Autumn: The Cloquet-Moose Lake Disaster of 1918. The history book is based upon the Cloquet Moose Lake Fire.
November 28, 1990 - MPR’s Loren Omoto interviews Ingrid Erickson, of St. Paul’s Hungry Mind bookstore and member of Midwest Booksellers for Social Responsibility. Erickson shares concerns over potential cuts to government funding to literary arts programs and small business.
December 22, 1990 - MPR’s Paul Schroeder hosts a group discussion on the ArtStart radio drama "The Year 2025." The young creators and adult educators talk about play and thematic concerns regarding the environment that it centers around.