June 24, 1993 - Sally MacDonald, of Playwrights Center; and Ross Miller, a 14-year-old playwright, talk about local Young Playwrights Summer conference, sponsored by Playwrights Center and St. Thomas University.
June 24, 1993 - U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone comments on his potential vote choice on bill addressing federal budget. While he supports the tax piece, Wellstone shares his concern over what it does to Medicare.
June 25, 1993 - MPR’s Perry Finelli interviews Ann DeGroot, local LGBT acitivist, about Gay Pride Festival, appointment of a U.S. AIDS czar, gays in the military, and the term ‘family.’
June 25, 1993 - MPR’s Kate Smith reports on Hmong farming in Minnesota, where a more traditional approach returns to a land where modern agriculture now dominates.
June 25, 1993 - A Worldview interview with Mehrdad Izady, author of Kurds: A Concise Handbook, a book to identify and delineate the heritage of the Kurds.
June 25, 1993 - U.S. Congressman Martin Sabo comments on House Budget Committee efforts and possible result of completing a joint budget bill in D.C. legislation.
June 26, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles Chong Koua Yang, owner of Hmong Auto Services in St. Paul. Yang provides an option to those in Hmong community where language is still an obstacle in daily American life.
June 30, 1993 - Midmorning’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Susanna Kaysen about Girl, Interrupted, a memoir on Kaysen’s experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
June 30, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer hosts a roundtable discussion on the state of National Organization of Women with local women's rights activists Kim Hines, Sue Stebbins, and Kay Castonguay.
July 2, 1993 - Chuck Ruhr, owner of a Minneapolis ad agency, reflects on the Aug. 13, 1973 Time magazine promoting the state. The issue included a cover shot ("The good life in Minnesota") and six-page spread to Minnesota ("A state that works").