January 7, 1994 - Pai Yang wrote a commentary for MPR about what happened when she left Minnesota and went to college at Harvard. Yang reflects on what it means to be Hmong.
January 14, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, northern Minnesota author Barton Sutter reads his essay on recycling Christmas trees.
January 15, 1994 - Playwright, director, actor, and storyteller Jim Stowell shares a Rio Grande story. He is a co-founder of The Minnesota Ensemble Theater and The Palace Theater.
January 26, 1994 - A Mainstreet Radio special broadcast from City Hall in Nashwauk, Minnesota. Program highlights the history, current state, and future of mining in the Iron Range. In this second hour of program, MPR’s Catherine Winter and Martin Kaste present reports from MPR’s Rachel Reabe and Mark Steil. Following reports, a panel discussion with Doug Schrader, president of the Iron Mining Association of Minnesota; and Bob Roots, lobbyist for United Steel Workers, about mining jobs and future industry.
January 28, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, English translator and author Kevin Crossley-Holland reads an essay about writing a story with children. This leads to an education for an outsider on Minnesota.
February 4, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota writer Laurie Allmann reads an essay on escaping long Minnesota winter days by making some long-distance calls.
February 11, 1994 - This Voices from the Heartland feature presents Marlene Reuber reading poem "It Is Enough" by Ruth Daigon.
February 25, 1994 - Kelly Dwyer reads from her debut novel, Tracks of Angels. The book centers on a young woman working through memories of a sad childhood and finding a guardian angel as an adult.
March 4, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota author Barton Sutter reads Finlandia at Fourteen Below, an essay on the inspiration of music in life.
March 4, 1994 - On this First Friday segment, Irish-American teacher and writer Frank McCourt reads "Threatening Letters" from Angela's Ashes: A Memoir. The book is tragicomic recollection of McCourt’s childhood experience of squalor.