January 13, 1986 - Jack Doyle answers listener questions about how genetic engineering and biotechnology are changing the food growing industry.
January 16, 1986 - On this Midday call-in program, MPR’s Beth Friend talks with Edo de Waart, the Dutch conductor who was the music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. De Waart discusses his classical career, programming, and interest in coming to Minnesota.
January 17, 1986 - Bob Dole, Kansas U.S. senator and senate majority leader, speaking to Carlson Lecture Series at the University of Minnesota's Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis. Dole addressed the topics of his wife Elizabeth, and the upcoming politics of 1986. After speech, Dole answered questions from the audience. Harlan Cleveland, the dean of the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, introduced Senator Dole.
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January 18, 1986 - Minnesotan politicians LeClair Lambert and Don Fraser reflect on being present in D.C. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. The day included the famous Martin Luther King Jr. speech “I Have a Dream.”
January 18, 1986 - MPR’s Mark Heistad interviews Charles Johnson, a professor at Macalester University, about Hmong folktales. Johnson is the author of collected Hmong traditional folk stories translated in English for ESL studies.
January 18, 1986 - Sen. Dave Durenberger responds to Minnesotan's concerns about terrorism, tax reform and other current events.
January 20, 1986 - Dr. Alice Rivlin, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution, speaking at Minnesota Meeting. Rivlin’s address is on the topic "Economic Choices 1984." Dr. Rivlin served for eight years as the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan agency of the U.S. Congress, which provides Congress with economic forecasts, budget projections and an analysis of budgetary issues. Dr. Rivlin has been an assistant secretary for planning and evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She has also written extensively on economic, budgetary and public decision-making issues. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
January 20, 1986 - MPR Journal’s Gary Eichten gets multiple reports on the status of Hormel strike situation in Austin. Striking meatpackers have amassed at gates of Hormel plant in order to disrupt. The company and city have requested the National Guard.
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