May 27, 1977 - MPR legislative reporters Bob Potter and Debbie Gage prepared a half-hour summary of highlights from the 1977 Minnesota legislative session. Many observers have praised the orderly fashion in which many major bills were passed, though there were the expected political disagreements over tax, welfare, and other basic policies.
May 30, 1977 - Sam Ervin, former United States Senator from North Carolina and chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, delivered the commencement address at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Ervin also interviewed at the airport about his reaction to ex-President Nixon's interviews and his own opposition to gay rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.
May 31, 1977 - Author Joan Didion addresses The University of California, Berkeley audience about writing. This is followed by interview with NPR reporter Susan Stanberg.
June 3, 1977 - Morton Sobell, the only living defendant from the 1951 espionage case of Julian and Ethel Rosenberg, addresses an audience at the University of Minnesota in Duluth on the similarities between the Rosenberg case and other "political trials" such as Wounded Knee and the Chicago 7.
June 4, 1977 - Charles Cheng, professor at the University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of Education, speaking at a forum sponsored by the Minnesota League of Women Voters. His topic is teachers’ unions, collective bargaining, and the role of citizens in such negotiations.
June 11, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, a presentation of panel discussion entitled "Equal Opportunities and the Quality of Life in the Metropolitan Conglomerate."
June 18, 1977 - John Lavine, Wisconsin newspaper publisher and University of Wisconsin regent, gives speech titled "Why Johnny Can't Read and What You Should Do About It" at the annual dinner of the Minneapolis Concerned Citizens for Public Education.
June 18, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, a presentation of Twin Cities author Judith Guest speaking at Women as Writers symposium.
June 23, 1977 - University of North Dakota medical professor Theodore Reiff at the annual Governor's Citizens Council on Aging Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter. Reiff spoke on how to prolong life. He began his remarks with a technical description of four theories of why we age. Later in his speech he focuses on what our culture has not done to prolong life.
July 9, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, historian Gretchen Kreuter speaks at University of Minnesota's Women's Day on Campus, sponsored by Continuing Education for Women.