December 12, 1991 - MPR’s Gary Eichten talks with Oliver Ford, the new president at Southwest State University. Ford discusses new role, the challenges ahead with budget constraints, and that bringing together the varied needs of students.
December 13, 1991 - Midmorming’s Paula Schroeder talks with outdoors writer Sam Cook about his writing. Cook talks about the outdoors and reads from his book, Campsights.
December 13, 1991 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles Chris Thao, the first Hmong attorney in the United States. Thao recollects his path to Minnesota and shares his desire to utilize his practice in helping to build a future for Hmong in the country.
December 16, 1991 - MPR’s Tom Meersman reports on social justice protests being held outside the Governor’s mansion. Protesters are concerned that cut of Minnesota’s Work Readiness Program will intensify issue of homelessness.
December 20, 1991 - Former Vice President Walter Mondale comments on Mario M. Cuomo announcing he would not run for President in 1992. Mondale states how he is discouraged by the process of debates/campaigns and shares what he thinks would make it better.
December 20, 1991 - Commentary on the business ethics issues regarding Swift-Eckrich closure in Detroit Lakes, costing 500 jobs.
December 27, 1991 - MPR’s Beth Friend talks with numerous individuals in the local music industry about the active record label scene in the Twin Cities and how they survive in a tough music market.
December 30, 1991 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder interviews playwright Celeste Raspanti about her travels to Czechoslovakia and about I Never Saw Another Butterfly, her play based on the real-life story of Holocaust survivor Raja Englanderova and stories from the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
December 31, 1991 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten completes a phone interview with Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist and a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), who is in prison after first degree murder convictions in the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. Peltier states he did not kill them and speaks about appeals process.
January 1, 1992 - MPR’s Gary Eichten interviews former Minnesota U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy, who discusses his 1992 presidential campaign.