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.
April 7, 1990 - Book reviewer Leonard Lang shares his thoughts of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.
June 16, 1990 - Weekend Edition’s sports commentator Jay Weiner, of the Star Tribune, describes a rough situation on-and-off the field for the Minnesota Twins, who have won 2 of the last 13 games. Weiner says while things are bad for the team, it is still not “1982 bad.”
August 18, 1990 - MPR’s Mark Heistad talks with Evelyn Fairbanks, author of the book Days of Rondo. Fairbanks reflects on growing up in the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul.
September 8, 1990 - Weekend presents an interview with Joe Murphy, a Minneapolis-based explorer and mountaineer. Murphy discusses his book South to the Pole by Ski, which details his experience exploring in Antarctica.
October 13, 1990 - A Weekend Edition interview with author Judith Strommen, from Clearwater, Minnesota. Strommen explains her process in writing children’s literature and bout her first novel, Grady the Great.
October 13, 1990 - Book reviewer Susan Williams shares her opinion of Jon Hassler’s novel, North of Hope.
November 17, 1990 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder interviews Minnesota author Wayne Johnson about his book, The Snake Game. The novel chronicles the lives and fates of a group of Native Americans along the Minnesota/Canada border and the young white man drawn into their world
December 30, 1990 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports from the northern border town of International Falls, as Boise Cascade, the city's largest employer, finishes up a huge expansion of their papermill. The development, which utilized non-union workers, caused bitter feelings in the town.
January 26, 1991 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder interviews Ralph Leidholdt, a U.S. civilian taken hostage during Iraq invasion of Kuwait. Leidholdt recalls the experience of his capture by Iraqi forces in Kuwait and detainment in Iraq, until negotiations secured his release. The experience included a Prairie Home Companion tape collection and Muhammad Ali as a negotiator.
January 26, 1991 - A Voices from the Heartland essay by writer and poet Laurie Allmann on the balance of nature and palindromes.