May 9, 2002 - Biologist Sandra Steingraber speaks live from the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis. Steingraber's new book, "An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood," discusses the alarming extent to which environmental hazards now threaten each crucial stage of infant development.
May 13, 2002 - Texan author and widely syndicated political columnist Molly Ivins speaks at the College of St. Catherine as part of their "Women in Leadership" series. Ivins is the author of the best-seller "Molly Ivins Can't Say that, Can She?," and her most recent book, about George W. Bush, is titled "Shrub."
May 28, 2002 - Author and activist Randall Robinson speaks at the University of Minnesota's Nommo forum about slavery reparations. Robinson is the author of two influential books on the subject: "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks," and "The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other."
May 31, 2002 - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro speaks at Ruminator Books in Minneapolis, recorded last week. Caro, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his book "The Power Broker," is promoting his latest work, "Master of the Senate," the third book in a biographical series about president Lyndon Baines Johnson.
June 12, 2002 - MPR's Laura McCallum reports that Minnesota Republicans will be endorsing a candidate for governor and the race is a close one between entrepreneur Brian Sullivan and legislative leader Tim Pawlenty. Sullivan holds a slight lead in the party's non-binding straw polls of delegates.
September 20, 2002 - New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman's Twin Cities speech The World After September 11th. He spoke at Temple Israel in Minneapolis Thursday night.
September 25, 2002 - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Judith Miller, author of the best-selling book, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War" and Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. He is author of "Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bio-Terrorist Catastrophe." They participated in the "Great Conversations" series sponsored by the U of M College of Continuing Education.
October 2, 2002 - MPR’s Jon Gordon breaks down Game 1 of American League Division Series game, matching the Minnesota Twins against Oakland A’s. Twins' post-season inexperience was on garish display early in the game, but the team is savoring innings four through nine, during which it battered the vaunted Oakland pitching staff and silenced the A's bats for a 7-5 victory.
October 9, 2002 - Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis spoke in Minneapolis last night about terrorism, freedom and civil liberties.
October 15, 2002 - Long-time award-winning journalist Sam Donaldson shares his thoughts about the president, violence in the Middle East and war with Iraq in a speech he gave Sunday night at Temple Israel in Minneapolis. He is the author of the book, "Hold On Mr. President."