May 16, 1980 -
May 17, 1980 - MPR's Rich Dietman talks with journalists Vaiju Mahindroo, correspondent for India Today magazine, and Bruno Lopez Kupitsky, reporter for the Mexico City newspaper Ovaciones, about their attitudes toward America, its people, and the news media after spending eight months at the World Press Institute at Macalester College in St. Paul.
May 17, 1980 - MPR’s Rich Dietman checks in with Ely storyteller Jackpine Bob Cary about the status of Cary’s humorous campaign for U.S. presidency.
May 17, 1980 - John Cuddy, manager of the wind energy project for the Minnesota Energy Agency, speaks with reporter Greg Barron after MEA hearings to review the state's energy policy going into the last two decades of the 20th century.
May 17, 1980 -
May 17, 1980 - Chet Meyers teaches a course in fishing at Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis where he is also an administrator. He has co-authored a book with Al Lindner. He takes Rich Dietman fishing.
May 17, 1980 - The Minnesota Outward Bound School began an experimental program for adolescents from 14-19 years old who have serious, chronic illnesses. Dr. Robert Blum, a pediatrician from the University of Minnesota and a consultant to this special program explains its rationale. The program provides rigorous wilderness and urban experiences teaching self-reliance to seriously ill teenagers.
May 19, 1980 -
May 19, 1980 -
May 19, 1980 - Dan Loewensen, coordinator of the Chemical Awareness Program in the Minneapolis Public Schools and "Mary", a student who is recovering from chemical dependency take questions. Also appearing is Bruce Bomier, director of the Minnesota Behavioral Institute in Anoka, Minnesota. He is former director of the state Alcohol and Drug Authority. They talk with MPR's Dan Olson about the increased use of alcohol among teenagers and the young, and answer live listener questions.