October 18, 2010 - Writer and columnist Jim Klobuchar talks about the return of Brett Favre as quarterback and the Vikings chances for a Super Bowl victory.
October 21, 2010 - At a special Fitzgerald theater event, best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith joins Garrison Keillor on stage to talk about literature and the life of a writer.
October 22, 2010 - On this Midday call-in program, former Vice President Walter Mondale joins MPR’s Gary Eichten to take questions about his new political memoir, The Good Fight: A life in Liberal Politics. The book traces Mondale's career from a young Minnesota attorney general to Vice President. While personal, it's also the story of half a century of progressive politics.
October 22, 2010 - MPR’s Chris Roberts reports on Minneapolis indie rock band STNNNG (pronounced 'Stunning'). Roberts interviews band members and a music critic about the group’s blistering sound and album “The Smoke of My Will.”
October 29, 2010 - Bemidji State University officials say American Indian enrollment is up about 15 percent from just a few years ago. Some credit BSU's American Indian Resource Center with helping Indian students succeed on campus. Anton Treuer is an Ojibwe language professor at BSU. Treuer says the center provides Indian students a supportive and culturally familiar place to network with others.
November 1, 2010 - MPR’s Mark Steil reports on the three candidates vying to represent Minnesota's 1st Congressional District. DFL incumbent Tim Walz, Republican Randy Demmer, and Independence Party candidate Steven Wilson are all campaigning into the final stretch of race.
November 4, 2010 - Tuesday's election was historic for the Republican takeover of the state legislature for the first time in 38 years, but it was significant in St. Paul for another reason: The Capitol City elected its very first African American lawmakers to both the House and Senate. They won the seats vacated by the state's first two Hmong lawmakers.
November 5, 2010 - With the close of the 2010 gubernatorial race, MPR’s Curtis Gilbert revisits the memorable 1990 Minnesota governor’s race, which involved screaming headlines, sex scandals, an 11th hour withdrawal -- and a surprise upset victory.
November 8, 2010 - On this Midday program, MPR’s Cathy Wurzer speaks with Supreme Court Justice Alan Page.
November 8, 2010 - MPR’s Stephanie Hemphill looks into a microscopic organism in Lake Superior that lives peacefully on the rocky shore. But this same algae is causing big problems in some other streams around the world, notably in New Zealand and New England. It's a bit of a mystery that a handful of scientists are racing to solve.