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.
October 19, 1991 - On this Weekend Edition report, MPR’s Bill Wareham highlights the Atlanta Braves. For many Braves players, this will be the first experience playing in the Metrodome and dealing with its unique oddities as a ballpark. The Braves will represent the National League in the 1991 World Series against the American League’s Minnesota Twins.
October 26, 1991 - Weekend Edition host Jim Wishner talks with sports commentator Jay Weiner about how the 1991 World Series between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves may conclude.
November 2, 1991 - Weekend Edition host Jim Wishner talks with sports commentator Jay Weiner about various sports items in relation to the snow, including the Twins World Series win, Winter Olympics, and the roof of Metrodome (hmmmmmmm..)
November 2, 1991 - Weekend Edition host Jim Wishner interviews Bob LaShomb, of Metro Transit Commission, on status of bus service after massive snowstorm hit the Twin Cities.
November 2, 1991 - Weekend Edition’s Jim Wishner interviews Jim Mathews, meteorologist form the National Weather Service, on the present conditions, wind, and snow totals in region. It looks as if Duluth has won the "golden shovel” award from storm, with 30" inches on the ground.
November 2, 1991 - Weekend Edition’s Jim Wishner talks with KZSE’s Joe Follensbee about situation in southern Minnesota counties, where there are power and phone outages as a result of snowstorm and blizzard conditions in the region.
November 2, 1991 - Weekend Edition’s Jim Wishner talks with author Bill Holm about the snowstorm that hit state. Holm gives his impression on what blizzards are all about…a time to read and write.
November 2, 1991 - Weekend Edition’s Jim Wishner talks with MPR reporters Rich Dietman(KZSE-Rochester) and Joe Kelly(WSCN-Duluth/Superior) about storm impact outside the metro area. Both are at home, as their respective stations are off the air due to storm.
August 1, 1992 - MPR’s Maja Beckstrom reports on a Clementine Hunter exhibition at Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis. Segment includes commentary from an anonymous Minnesota collector friend of Clementine Hunter, along with Todd Bockley of Bockley Gallery.
March 13, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter reports on the difficulty to prosecute child abuse on Red Lake and other Indian reservations. On most reservations, state criminal laws don’t apply. The federal government is responsible for prosecuting serious cries under federal law. While child sex abuse is prohibited under federal law, child physical abuse is not.