August 6, 1977 - Dr. David Cooperman, University of Minnesota sociology professor; and Robert Friedmann, graduate student at the University, present a pro-Israeli view on some aspects of the Middle East conflict. The moderator for the discussion is MPR’s Bob Potter.
August 13, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, Bruce Vento, congressman of Minnesota's 4th district of St. Paul, talks with MPR’s Bob Potter and answers listener questions. Topics included energy bill, BCWA, and child abuse.
August 18, 1977 - This program features excerpts from a recent rural life conference for young people in Southwestern Minnesota, including speeches by Dr, Jon Wefald, president of Southwest State University in Marshall: Roger Blobaum, agricultural consultant; Thomas Wyman, president of Green Giant Company; Congressman Richard Nolan of Minnesota's Sixth District; Father John McRaith, executive director of the Catholic Rural Life Conference; and Minnesota Senator Hubert H. Humphrey.
August 19, 1977 - This continuation of excerpts from the rural life conference for young people held in Marshall, Minnesota, features speeches by Dr. Charles Reinert, professor of physics at Southwest State University; Roger Blobaum, agricultural consultant; Calvin Beale, head of the Population Studies Group of the United States Department of Agriculture; Minnesota's Sixth District Congressman Richard Nolan; and former Sixth District Congressman John Zwach.
August 25, 1977 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston presents Minnesota Women's Meeting sampler, Part II.
August 27, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, Don Fraser, congressman of Minnesota's 5th district, talks with MPR’s Bob Potter and answers listener questions. Topics included Fraser's senate intentions, BCWA, energy issues, and economy.
August 27, 1977 - MPR’s Bob Potter presents “The Role of the Courts in a Changing Society: Criminal Law,” a documentary that follows the process of investigation, charging, trial, sentencing and appeals.
August 30, 1977 - An examination of how the state of Minnesota might combine individual welfare program into a consolidated cash assistance plan which will include benefits for the working poor and work incentives to replace the present work requirement stipulation. State Senator John Milton of the Health, Welfare and Corrections Committee; Pearl Mitchell, Director of Voluntary Services for the Ramsey County Welfare Department; and Robert Wallace, author of a recent Citizens League Report on welfare reform, discuss recommendations from study.
September 3, 1977 - This regional public affairs program features taped speech of St. Paul Mayor George Latimer's State of the City address, titled “An Agenda for the Future of St. Paul”, followed by a live broadcast with the mayor answering listener questions.
September 6, 1977 - Highlights from a National Convention of the VFW in Minneapolis. Includes speeches from Max Cleland, Director of the Veterans Administration, National Security Chief Phelps Jones, and Army Chief of Staff Bernard Rogers. The Panama Canal issue was prominent at convention. The veterans group drafted a resolution urging Congress not to ratify any renegotiation of the 1903 Panama Canal Treaty.