August 18, 1994 - Jon Gordon reports on St. Paul School Board Teaching and Learning Committee’s hearing regarding gay & lesbian support groups in the school district. Report includes commentary from both opponents and proponents of the program for gay and lesbian students.
August 19, 1994 - Jack Tunheim, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Minnesota, discusses President Clinton’s federal crime bill, known as Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Topics include increase in police force, stiffer penalties, and assault weapons ban. Tunheim also answered listener questions.
August 19, 1994 - President Clinton press conference on Cuban boat crisis. Clinton announces that Cuban refugees will not be accepted into the United States. He then speaks on status of Crime Bill. Clinton also answers questions form the press.
August 19, 1994 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling gives a moment to put a light on stray animals in distress.
August 19, 1994 - Dr. Arthur Caplan, former head of Center for Bioethics at University of Minnesota, is interviewed about his thoughts on how the health care reform has played out in Washington D.C.
August 20, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews author Neal Karlen about his book, Babes in Toyland: The Making and Selling of a Rock and Roll Band. Karlen discusses his experiences following the band during the creation and reaction of Babes in Toyland’s first album.
August 20, 1994 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling details the history of Woodstock, New York beyond a particular festival weekend.
August 20, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts talks with Money Magazine’s Marguerite Smith about their 1994 rankings of U.S. cities. Minneapolis came up #32 and Roberts tries to figure out “why so low?”
August 22, 1994 - On this Midmorning interview, Minneapolis-born screenwriter and actor Nick Sadler talks about writing his script, Amateur Fools. He also discusses filming in Minnesota.
August 24, 1994 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Yee Chang, Pioneer Press library researcher and Hmong Youth Cultural Awareness Project coordinator; and Pang Xiong, a project contributor, about student written book, A Free People: Tracing Our Hmong Roots. Chang and Xiong describe the purpose of book is to better connect young Hmong students and their parents/grandparents through history of Hmong culture.