December 30, 1991 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder interviews playwright Celeste Raspanti about her travels to Czechoslovakia and about I Never Saw Another Butterfly, her play based on the real-life story of Holocaust survivor Raja Englanderova and stories from the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
December 31, 1991 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten completes a phone interview with Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist and a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), who is in prison after first degree murder convictions in the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. Peltier states he did not kill them and speaks about appeals process.
January 1, 1992 - MPR’s Gary Eichten interviews former Minnesota U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy, who discusses his 1992 presidential campaign.
January 2, 1992 - MPR’s Paul Schroeder interviews Jim Holtman, of Runestone Power in Douglas County, about damage done to power lines from ice fog. It began as beautiful hoar frost, but moisture in the air changed over to an icy fog. The lines were quickly coated, then snapped, creating power outages.
January 2, 1992 - American poet Diane Glancy reads her poem "Without Title" (for my Father who lived without ceremony).
January 2, 1992 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder interviews Judy Remington about the challenging environment for women’s organizations and progressive arts programs compared to the 1970s.
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January 3, 1992 - Minnesota labor activist Harry DeBoer is remembered by former union radical. De Boer was instrumental in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 and a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party.
January 6, 1992 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder interviews Sarah Tulloch, editor of The Oxford Dictionary of New Words. Tulloch describes examples of “new” words and terms in contemporary culture.
January 6, 1992 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten talks with Gary Doty, newly-elected mayor of Duluth, on what he sees as important going into 1992. Topics of business, tourism, and city infrastructure are at the forefront.