May 28, 2004 - Mainstreet Radio's Tim Post profiles Cody Rogahn and Jonathan Yarbrough, a couple from west-central Minnesota that became one of the first same-sex couples to take advantage of the new Massachusetts law allowing gay couples to wed.
June 2, 2004 - Chris Roberts profiles Venus, a transgender musician and visual artist from Duluth. Roberts interviews the artist, spouse, and Twin Cities filmmaker who follows the band All the Pretty Horses in documentary “Venus of Mars.”
June 3, 2004 - By the end of the 2004, the Twin Cities will have nearly 5000 new Hmong residents as they arrive from Thailand. They'll join the more than 20,000 Hmong who began arriving here in the 1970s. While this new wave of refugees will have some obstacles to overcome when they arrive, they'll have some advantages their predecessors never did.
June 7, 2004 - Mainstreet Radio's Annie Baxter reports that for thirty years, St. Cloud has had an ordinance on its books that forbids immigrants from driving taxis. It wasn't enforced; in fact, most people had forgotten about it. City officials were embarrassed to learn of the ordinance recently, and promptly swore they'd get rid of it. The matter is under consideration in the city council, but even so, Somalis say they can't get jobs as taxi drivers...and they're wondering why.
June 10, 2004 - Mainstreet Radio's Rachel Reabe explores the history of the Great American Think-Off, held annually in New York Mills, Minnesota. in 2004, the amateur philosophers address the question of same-sex marriage.
June 11, 2004 - As part of the Mainstreet Radio series “Meth in Minnesota,” MPR’s Tom Post reports on the various new challenges methamphetamine creates for Minneosta law enforcement.
June 14, 2004 - As part of the Mainstreet Radio series “Meth in Minnesota,” MPR’s Tom Robertson reports on a story of how meth has devastated the lives of one northern Minnesota family.
June 14, 2004 - As part of the Mainstreet Radio series “Meth in Minnesota,” MPR’s Cara Hetland reports on the unintended victims of meth…children.
June 15, 2004 - Mainstreet Radio has compiled a series of stories on meth and the effect it is having on the state for the first half of a two-hour special report, “Methamphetamine Madness.” Methamphetamine is one of the most addictive, most abused and most readily available drugs in America. Experts are calling it an epidemic, and Minnesota is anything but sheltered from it.
June 15, 2004 - Mainstreet Radio is live from Collegeville for the second hour of this special report, “Methamphetamine Madness.” Rachel Reabe hosts a call-in discussion about Minnesota's methamphetamine epidemic with three experts.