August 27, 1977 - The following edition of The Poet's Perspective is on the subject of rural women. The program features Southwest Minnesota regional poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.
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 3, 1977 - The following edition of The Poet's Perspective is on the subject of public funding for the arts. The program features Southwest Minnesota regional poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.
September 5, 1977 - An excursion through the resort area in Northwestern Iowa known as the Iowa Great Lakes. On Labor Day, most of the tourists and vacationers who swell this area's population from eight to sixty thousand will be going home. But the atmosphere that surrounded the lakes in this and previous summers has been captured in the following sound portrait.
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.
September 10, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, a look at the impact of declining enrollment in the new school year. Dr. Raymond Arveson, Minneapolis School superintendent; and Dr. George Young, St. Paul School superintendent, discuss the matter.
September 13, 1977 - Senator Frank Knoll, of Minneapolis, and Dr. Charles Fairhurst, Chairman of the University of Minnesota Civil & Mineral Engineering Department, discuss earth sheltered housing in Minnesota. Both had spoken at an energy conference at Carlton College.
September 14, 1977 - MPR’s Greg Barron interviews Bruce, a resort owner in Gunflint Trail area, about the current proposals going through legislation. Bruce expresses his concerns on the potential negative impact to resort owners if motorized vehicles are restricted on some lakes in Boundary Waters.
September 24, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, a report on resource redemption and recycling as an economic viability. Neal St. Anthony interviews individuals at Metro Recycling Center and various government officials, who discuss the current issues and challenges of recycling.