January 6, 1990 - James Campbell, National Weather Service meteorologist, talks about winter weather. Topics include greenhouse effect, windchill, the North shore, and weather cycles. Campbell also answers listener questions.
January 8, 1990 - David Weissbrodt, professor of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center, and Barbara Frey, executive director of the Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Council, discuss human rights. Topics include rights issues in Albania, Africa, China, Central America, and North Korea. They also provide details of their organizations. Weissbrodt and Frey also answer listener questions.
January 13, 1990 - Minnesota Historical Society president Nina Archabal takes listener's questions about Minnesota history.
January 22, 1990 - Bernadette Anderson, director of YMCA's Metro Youth Services; and Patti Tetlin, of the Minnesota Women's Fund, talk about an upcoming conference, "Growing Up Female in Minnesota". Program includes a brief report by MPR's Chris Roberts on a study on adolescent girls.
January 27, 1990 - William Morrish, Director of the University of Minnesota's Design Center for the American Urban Landscape answers listener questions about how Minnesota's cities, towns, and suburbs look now, and how they could look.
February 16, 1990 - Michael Ehrlichman, chairman of the Regional Transit Board, discusses Twin Cities transit needs including light rail, bus service, and metro mobility. Tax funding is also addressed. Ehrlichman also answers listener questions.
February 17, 1990 - On this Saturday Midday, Deb Brown, U of MN Extension horticulturist, discusses indoor plants. Topics include types of plants and insects. Brown also answers listener questions.
March 23, 1990 - On this Midday program, Garrison Keillor talks about his show "The Monthly Meeting of the Moon Club of New York" and answers listener questions. The event is being staged at the World Theater.
March 27, 1990 - On this Midday program, a presentation of a Mainstreet Radio report on rural Minnesota and the debate on how it should be viewed and described. Following report, MPR’s Bob Potter has a conversation with Paul Gruchow, local author and reporter; and George Donohue, a rural sociologist at the University of Minnesota about the differences between rural and urban Minnesota and answer listener questions.
March 30, 1990 - On this Midday program, MPR’s Bob Potter interviews author and poet Bill Holm. The two discuss Holm’s book Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays and the Tiananmen Square protests. Holm also answers listener questions.