April 15, 1992 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten interviews Eric Smith, a member of the Internal Revenue Service, about reasons and process behind IRS auditing taxpayers.
April 28, 1992 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten interviews a Renville County board member about conflict in area among residents over the possibility of an industrial pig farm. Interviewee sees that rural Minnesota is in the midst of change.
May 4, 1992 - April Backman, an 18-year-old and a senior at BOLD High School in Olivia, Minnesota, reads her First Vote essay.
May 4, 1992 - Michele Lammers, a senior at Southland High School in Adams, Minnesota, reads her First Vote essay.
May 4, 1992 - Former Vice-President Walter Mondale shares his views on President Bush comments about the situation in Los Angeles following the verdict in the trial of four policemen. Mondale also discusses what he sees as failed social and economic U.S. policies affecting the country.
May 6, 1992 - A panel discussion on the new international newspaper “We”, hosted at Minnesota Meeting. Panelists include Edward Hughes, publisher at Hearst in New York; Maxwell McCrohon, U.S. editor of We; and Sergei Dardykin, deputy international editor of Izvestia, who will also be the chief of We's Russian staff in Washington. Don Shelby of WCCO-TV is moderator. “We” is published for the Commonwealth of Independent States, a joint venture between Hearst Newspapers and Izvestia. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
May 6, 1992 - A Worldview interview with author and journalist Gloria Emerson about her book, Gaza: A Year in the Intifada: A Personal Account from an Occupied Land.
May 6, 1992 - Minnesota U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone talks to MPR’s Gary Eichten about congressional plans for urban revitalizations.
May 7, 1992 - Lester Thurow, dean of the Sloan School of Management at MIT, discusses economic issues. Topics include economic aspect of Los Angeles riots, manufacturing, global capacity, and wages. Thurow also answers listener questions. Thurow is author of numerous books, including “The Zero-Sum Solution.”
May 12, 1992 - As part of a "The Roots of Violence" seminar held in the Minnesota Senate Chamber, Susan Hadley, the founder and executive director of WomanKind, Inc, speaks on the issues and myths of family abuse. WomanKind, Inc. is a program of services for battered women, based at Fairview-Southdale and Fairview-Ridges Hospitals. The seminar was sponsored by Tom Neuville, Republican senator of Northfield and Rice County public defender; and Jane Ranum, Democratic senator of Minneapolis and assistant Hennepin County attorney.