Weekend Edition (Regional Edition) is an MPR News segment series that runs as a companion to broadcasts of NPR’s Weekend Edition. As a regional version, the series highlights local news, commentary, profiles, and reports.
May 14, 1994 - Local writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin recounts an interaction with a business owner who chooses a face-to-face over answering a phone.
May 28, 1994 - A Weekend Edition interview with journalist Jeffrey Tayler, author of The Pru-Bache Murder: The Fast Life and Grisly Death of a Millionaire Stockbroker. Tayler details Russian emigre and stockbroker Michael Prozunmenshikov and his murder by Zachary Persitz on Lake Minnetonka.
June 11, 1994 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling comments on celebrity biographies.
June 11, 1994 - Local writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin shares his annoyance of dandelions before a reappraisal.
June 25, 1994 - A collection of remote audio clips of historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling as she takes a road trip in search of all things Elvis…and a few other stops along the way to Memphis, Tennessee.
July 2, 1994 - Weekend Edition segment of Duluth author Michael Fedo reading an essay about a 4th of July memory.
July 2, 1994 - Local writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin reflects on the importance of lessons and provides an illustrative example in the form of bad gasoline.
July 9, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews Kathleen Stauffer on her book, Womansport: The Women's Sports Bible. She discusses how women belong in sports, the inequity in the field, and the changes to come.
July 9, 1994 - Michigan nature writer Jerry Dennis reads an essay on a thunderstorm and the both comforting and humbling aspects of Earth’s weather.
July 9, 1994 - Local writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin hails the “gifts” from the season of summer. It is a perspective of a hardened Minnesota winter survivor.