July 8, 1994 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham interviews editors David Carr and Rick Nelson about the launch of Q Monthly, an insert inside the alternative weekly Twin Cities Reader. Carr and Nelson discuss purpose of paper for gay and lesbian community.
July 8, 1994 - U.S. Representative Rod Grams visits the Midday studios to answer listener questions. Grams is the 1994 Independent-Republic party's endorsed U.S. Senate candidate.
July 9, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews Kathleen Stauffer on her book, Womansport: The Women's Sports Bible. She discusses how women belong in sports, the inequity in the field, and the changes to come.
July 9, 1994 - Michigan nature writer Jerry Dennis reads an essay on a thunderstorm and the both comforting and humbling aspects of Earth’s weather.
July 12, 1994 - MPR’s Euan Kerr interviews Minnesota mystery author Robert Dingwall (R.D.) Zimmerman about his book, Red Trance. The book is the third Russian-centric thriller following Dingwall’s characters Maddy Phillips, a blind and paraplegic forensic psychologist, and her brother Alex.
July 13, 1994 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham interviews artist and author Howard Siverston about his book, The Illustrated Voyageur: Paintings and Companion Stories. Siverston details the use of birch bark canoes, historical diaries, and the eventual decline of fur trading in the Great Lakes and Boundary Waters region.
July 13, 1994 - Minnesota visual artist Howard Sivertson reads a short excerpt from his book, The Illustrated Voyageur: Paintings and Companion Stories.
July 14, 1994 - MPR’s Mindy Ratner interviews Alice Kaplan on her culture, growing up in Minnesota in a Jewish family, and her book French Lessons: A Memoir.
July 14, 1994 - Residency for uniform services, particularly police and fire, is a public safety issue.
July 15, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, northern Minnesota writer Barton Sutter reads Existential Baseball, an essay on the sport of baseball…or more specifically, the atmosphere of the ballpark.