June 22, 1993 - A Midday interview with St. Paul Mayor Jim Scheibel about National Urban Peace and Justice Summit to address gang violence in the community. Summit is being held at Mount Olivet Baptist, in St. Paul.
June 22, 1993 - MPR’s Bill Wareham reports on National Urban Peace and Justice Summit at Mount Olivet Baptist in St. Paul.
June 23, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger profiles Bob Lessard, a Minnesota state senator known for his strong environmental and natural resource stances. His views have supporters and critics from both ends of the ecological debate in northern Minnesota.
June 23, 1993 - A Worldview interview with Judy Gikaru, editor of Echo Magazine and writer for Kenya’s premier political weekly magazine Weekly Review. Gikaru discusses Kenya press, economy, and politics.
June 24, 1993 - Sally MacDonald, of Playwrights Center; and Ross Miller, a 14-year-old playwright, talk about local Young Playwrights Summer conference, sponsored by Playwrights Center and St. Thomas University.
June 24, 1993 - U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone comments on his potential vote choice on bill addressing federal budget. While he supports the tax piece, Wellstone shares his concern over what it does to Medicare.
June 25, 1993 - MPR’s Perry Finelli interviews Ann DeGroot, local LGBT acitivist, about Gay Pride Festival, appointment of a U.S. AIDS czar, gays in the military, and the term ‘family.’
June 25, 1993 - MPR’s Kate Smith reports on Hmong farming in Minnesota, where a more traditional approach returns to a land where modern agriculture now dominates.
June 25, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, local educator and author Judith Hougen reads her poem, Coming of Age.
June 25, 1993 - A Worldview interview with Mehrdad Izady, author of Kurds: A Concise Handbook, a book to identify and delineate the heritage of the Kurds.