September 26, 1987 - MPR’s Kate Moos reports on Minnesota Poets in the Schools Program (now COMPAS). Segment includes interviews with John Caddy and Randy Jennings, who describe program and its history.
September 26, 1987 - Tom Trutna, Small Business Development Center, College of St. Thomas on setting up and starting a small business.
September 28, 1987 - Jack Kemp, New York congressman and Republican presidential hopeful, speaking at Minnesota Meeting. Kemp addressed topics of tax cut initiative, and employment. After speech, Kemp answers audience questions. 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.
September 28, 1987 - MPR Journal presents the documentary “A Visit to Atwater.” The farm crisis of the early 1980s has taken a toll on small towns. MPR reporters Dan Olson and Stephen Smith spent some time in the West Central Minnesota farm town of Atwater to see how one small community is faring, and what the future may hold.
September 28, 1987 - MPR’s Jim Bickal provides a breakdown of Minnesota Twins game that had the largest regular season crowd in Metrodome history. Fans watched as the team won game as they battle to win pennant in AL West.
September 29, 1987 - A collection of interviews with Minnesota Twins players after the team beat the Texas Rangers, and in doing so, clinching the pennant in AL West.
September 30, 1987 -
October 1, 1987 - Hedrick Smith, chief correspondent for the New York Times in Washington, D.C. and a regular panelist on the public television series, "Washington Week in Review," speaking to symposium at Concordia College in Moorhead on the topic, "Power Politics and the Separation of Powers".
October 1, 1987 - MPR’s John Biewen produced the very first report of Mainstreet Radio. Biewen visits the southern Minnesota town of Good Thunder, where artist Ta-coumba Aiken was commissioned to create a massive mural along the grain elevator in town. The hope is it will help in keeping Good Thunder on the map.
October 2, 1987 - University of Minnesota president Kenneth Keller answers listeners questions about the ongoing discussion of "commitment to focus".