March 2, 1979 - MPR’s Tom Meersman interviews Barbara Boyle, food and nutrition advocate for the Northwest Hennepin Human Services Council; and Mary Kennedy, food stamp outreach director for Minnesota's Department of Public Welfare, discuss changes in the food stamp program and the effects on Minnesotans. Allegations of widespread fraud within the program have had administrators and investigators studying both the systems and alternatives to it. Major changes were enacted through the Food Stamp Act of 1977.
March 5, 1979 - Highlights from a 10-day symposium on "The Vietnam Experience and America today" held at Macalester College in St. Paul, with talks by anti-war activist Daniel Berrigan and Theodore Sorensen, former special counsel to president John Kennedy. Also comments from Eugene McCarthy, Gloria Emerson, and Minnesotans involved with the anti-war movement.
March 12, 1979 - Dr. Margaret Olwen Sanderson, of the University of Minnesota Human Sexuality Program, talks with Dan Olson about human sexuality. Sanderson specializes in study of sexual physiology.
March 22, 1979 - Ed Bradley, a CBS News correspondent, speaking at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Bradley discusses "Media and Politics", and the role of journalists and the protections guaranteed them by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He illustrates both the privilege and problems provided by Freedom of the Press.
March 24, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, a MPR’s Rich Dietman presents report looking at released study of the Carnegie Commission on the future of public broadcasting, titled “Carnegie II.”
March 28, 1979 - MPR’s Dan Olson interviews Gordon Everest, computer expert and professor of business management at the University of Minnesota, who shares his concern that most Americans do not understand what is at stake when we talk about the use of computers and the protection of our privacy and property.
March 28, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan talks with feminist Black poet Audre Lorde about the power in her poetry. Segment also includes Lorde reading her poetry.
March 31, 1979 - Nationally syndicated Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman speaks at the 86th Minnesota Association of Social Services Conference in Minneapolis.
March 31, 1979 - Dr. Max Fine, director of the National Institute Committee for National Health Insurance, speaking at a health care costs symposium in Ames, Iowa. Fine’s topic is "The Health Problems of the Elderly."
April 7, 1979 - On this special regional public affairs program, MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews Roland Jensen, director of corporate and strategy and planning for Northern States Power, and Ken Peterson, an attorney for Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, who discuss advantages and disadvantages of producing electricity using nuclear power.