February 16, 1984 - Allan Spear, Minnesota DFL state senator, shares his thoughts on the state’s sentencing guidelines system. Spear says he sees the sentencing guidelines as complex, but just.
March 24, 1984 - On this Weekend program, Kathleen Morris, Scott County attorney, discusses the laws governing sexual abuse of children. Morris has prosecuted several widely publicized sexual abuse cases. Morris also answers listener questions.
April 28, 1984 - On this Weekend program, Jocelyn Tilsen, director of Twin Cities Parents Anonymous chapter, and two parents active in group, talk about help and support available to abusive parents. Tilsen also answers listener questions.
July 25, 1984 - PLEASE NOTE - The broadcast contains explicit language and graphic descriptions. Fred de Sam Lazaro, WSCD-Duluth reporter, presents a documentary investigating child abuse in northeastern Minnesota. The first widely publicized case of incest or child sexual abuse was the Cermak family - grandparents, uncles, aunts and parents, who were convicted about a year ago of repeated sexual abuse of children from their infancy through adolescence. Since the Cermaks, numerous other cases have been uncovered, and the prosecutor of the Cermak case, Kathleen Morris, says the problem is far more prevalent than most of us would like to believe.
November 19, 1984 - William Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, speaking at the University of Minnesota Law School. Justice Rehnquist addressed the historical perspectives on efforts by U.S. presidents to "pack" the Supreme Court with justices favorable to their views.
January 7, 1985 - Minnesota Journal host Gary Eichten presents a collection of reports and news items for Monday, January 7, 1985.
April 29, 1985 - John Walsh, a special consultant to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, speaking to a group of pediatricians from around the country meeting in Rochester. Walsh addresses the problem of missing and exploited children in this country. Walsh is perhaps best-known as the father of the little boy named Adam, who back in 1981 was abducted and murdered. Since then, Mr. Walsh has been lobbying legislators around the country for better child protection laws. He was instrumental in the passage of the Missing Children Act back in 1982. Last year, President Reagan appointed John Walsh to serve as a special consultant to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. In that capacity, Walsh has been traveling around the country stressing the need for better laws to protect children as well as reforms in the criminal justice system to facilitate the reporting and location of missing children.
August 28, 1985 - Jerry Cassidy examines issues of Indian hunting and fishing rights in his documentary "American Indians in the 1980s: New Struggles for Old Rights." Program includes numerous interviews and commentary on treaty rights.
November 8, 1985 - MPR’s Mark Heistad unravels a chapter in Minnesota history and lore with documentary titled “A Story of Crime, Criminals and Corruption." Heistad tracked down numerous stories about some notorious gangsters in Minnesota, including John Dillinger shooting it out with G-Men in St. Paul, Al Capone buying moonshine in Stearns County, and Barker-Karpis gang vacationing in White Bear Lake.
November 15, 1985 - Tony Bouza, Minneapolis police chief, discusses current law enforcement issues. Topics include 2nd precinct problems, pornography, and demonstrator arrests at Honeywell. Bouza also answers listener questions.