A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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July 29, 1982 - Ira Schwartz, research fellow at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, discusses juvenile crime. Schwartz has authored a study that shows serious juvenile crime is not rising at a high rate. He shares that these findings conflict with the popular perception, and how that perception may lead to bad policy decisions in the area of crime by youths. Schwartz also answers listener questions.
July 31, 1982 - Local commentator Bruce Benidt provides a sarcastic meandering of thought regarding Minnesota highways.
July 31, 1982 - Stockbroker George Covington answers live listener questions on tax shelters and other investments.
August 2, 1982 - MPR’s Deborah Fisher reports on panel discussions after Penumbra Theatre play Zooman.
August 4, 1982 - Dr. Robert Neil Butler, director of the National Institute on Aging speaking at the Minnesota Board on Aging's Silver Anniversary Institute on Aging at St. Cloud State University. Butler’s address was on the topic of “Who Needs Long-term Care?” Butler is the Pulitzer prize winning author of the book, "Why Survive? Being Old in America".
August 5, 1982 - Human relationships have been the subject of much study. This program studies one, that of “the woman in the middle,” defined as the middle-aged mother who is caught between her daughter and her own aging mother. After several months of research, seminary student Marilyn Preus got together a group of women, like herself, who found themselves in the middle. That discussion is presented here.
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