June 27, 1992 - S. Elizabeth Bird, anthropology and popular culture specialist at University of Minnesota-Duluth, shares details from her book, For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids.
June 29, 1992 - Donald Katz, author of Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America, details researching his book and reactions to the topic.
June 29, 1992 - Larry Buboltz, mayor of Detroit Lakes, shares on-going dialog of a possible buyer of turkey plant that closed down in city earlier in 1992.
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 - 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 - 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 4, 1992 - Pop culture historian Karal Ann Marling gives a description of her visit to Washington D.C. and the 4th of July holiday.
July 4, 1992 - A Weekend Edition interview with Karen Nussbaum, co-author of Solutions for the New Work Force: Policies for a New Social Contract and contributor to The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment: Candid Advice from 9 to 5, The National Association of Working Women by Ellen Bravo and Ellen Cassedy.