A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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April 20, 1990 - MPR’s Bill Wareham reports on the Minnesota Twins home opener in a year that has a strange feeling to it. The season is starting late due to player lockout and usually strong Twins slugging and fielding has been subpar. It is the first home opener since the Twins moved to Minnesota that has not sold out.
April 20, 1990 - A profile of one of America's most influential environmental writers, Aldo Leopold, who was also an accomplished biologist.
April 21, 1990 - Gaylord Nelson, former Wisconsin U.S. Senator, discusses the founding of first Earth Day 1970.
April 21, 1990 - On this Saturday Midday, Cathy Berg Moeger, supervisor of solid waste program at the Minnesota Office of Waste Management, discusses household recycling and ban of yard waste disposal. Moeger also answers listener questions.
April 26, 1990 - MPR’s Gary Eichten interviews Duluth resident and fisherman Russ Francisco about the declined interest of smelting along the North Shore rivers. Francisco explains what he sees and some of the reasons behind drop off.
May 5, 1990 - Don Willeke of the Minnesota Shade Tree Advisory Committee and Dr. David French, professor of plant pathology and forestry at the University of Minnesota answer questions about the care of trees.
May 9, 1990 - Mainstreet Radio’s Rachel Reabe profiles Steve and Deb Heuer, whose work as bovine sitters. The Minnesota couple are for hire to assist dairy farmers who are away from their farms for a period of time and need someone to watch, feed, and milk the cows.
May 12, 1990 - University of Minnesota extension horticulturist Deb Brown answers listener questions about lawns and gardens.
May 15, 1990 - Kevin Boyle, founding director of the London-based organization Article 19, speaking at the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Center, the first lecture in a Forum on Freedom of Expression. Boyle’s address was on the topic “Freedom of Expression in the Developing World.” Boyle is also professor and Chair of Law at the University of Essex, England, as well as Director of the Essex Human Rights Center. Roger Parkinson, the publisher of the Star Tribune, introduced Boyle. Article 19 is an international organization working to promote freedom of expression throughout the world, and it played a leading role in the defense of Salman Rushdie when Iranian leaders threatened to execute him. The Forum on Freedom of Expression was established by the Human Rights Center to provide the University community with access to internationally recognized speakers on the efforts of human rights activists to extend the right to freedom of expression. The Forum will also serve to educate the University community on both domestic and international human rights efforts to protect this important freedom. The Human Rights Center was founded in December 1988 to encourage study, research, curriculum development, practical training, documentation, and outreach on many aspects of international human rights.
May 15, 1990 - As part of a series on Bemidji race relations, Mainstreet Radio reporter Leif Enger looks at the Bemidji Indian Employment Council, which helps Native Americans overcome job discrimination when looking for employment in the area.