June 30, 1992 - On this special live Midday broadcast, MPR’s Dan Olson shares the latest on a Burlington Northern freight train derailment causing three tank cars to plunge into the Nemadji River. One of them ruptured, causing chemicals to spill into the river and subsequently into Lake Superior. Accident lead to Duluth residents being evacuated.
July 1, 1992 - MPR’s Dan Olson talks with Gleason Glover, retiring president of Minneapolis Urban League, about his tenure and decades long efforts in civil rights movement. Other topics include housing, cultural impacts, mentoring, education, and a developing diversity of population.
July 1, 1992 - Local theatre critic Erin Hart reviews Illusion Theater’s production of Among our Own.
July 1, 1992 - Mark Sommer, author of Living in Freedom: The New Prague, comments on Czechoslovakia and the changes within country upon and after the “Velvet Revolution.”
July 1, 1992 - MPR’s Gary Eichten interviews clinical professor Rick Kingston on the health concerns revolving around the train derailment in Duluth-Superior, in which benzine and other chemicals spilled into the Nemadji River and created a toxic gas cloud.
July 3, 1992 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, Barton Sutter reads his essay, Boundary Waters Canoe Park. Sutter recalls the travails to get into Boundary Waters being far more treacherous than the wild.
July 3, 1992 - A Worldview conversation with author Barbara K. Walker about her book, Laughing Together: Giggles and Grins from Around the Globe. Walker shares how children from all over the world present a joke. Segment includes a few jokes along the way.
July 3, 1992 - Local sports commentator Howard Sinker provides an optimistic assessment of the Minnesota Twins as the 1992 MLB season sets to enter the second half.
July 3, 1992 - Businesswoman Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, speaks about "Profit with Principles" at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. She says that corporations must make it a priority to act responsibly and be global-minded.
July 4, 1992 - Pop culture historian Karal Ann Marling gives a description of her visit to Washington D.C. and the 4th of July holiday.