April 1, 1989 - Dr. George Karvel, Director of the Minnesota Real Estate research Center at St. Cloud State University, answers listener questions about the outlook for the real estate market in Minnesota this spring.
April 3, 1989 - Richard Thomas, Elanor Clift, John McCormick, and John Barry, all Newsweek magazine editorial writers, are members of a panel discussion at Minnesota Meeting. Their discussion was titled "Uncovering New Policies with Those Who Cover Them". The panelists are presented with numerous questions involving politics, world affairs, and economy. 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.
April 3, 1989 - MPR’s Jim Bickal checks in with Minnesota Twins players to get their take of what the 1989 Major League Baseball season may hold for the team. There is positive outlook and hopes that season will start well…as opposed to the slow start in 1988, which cost team later.
April 4, 1989 - Midday highlights the controversy surrounding an increase in the minimum wage. It's being debated in the individual states and in the Congress - the U.S. House recently voted to increase the minimum wage, and the Senate is expected to take up the issue this week. The Bush administration has threatened a veto if the bill is not to its liking. Program begins with an independently produced documentary called "Minimum Wage: Maximum Controversy". Documentary is followed with MPR’s Bob Potter talking with Ken Peterson, Minnesota's Labor and Industry Commissioner; and John Fossum, director of the Industrial Relations Center at the University of Minnesota. "Minimum Wage: Maximum Controversy" was written and produced by Carlos Davidson, an independent producer in California. The narrator was Charles Bloomer. Funding was provided by the Eastman Fund, The Funding Exchange, Nu Lambda Trust, the Skaggs Foundation and the Vanguard Foundation.
April 5, 1989 - MPR’s Leif Enger profiles John Lyght, Minnesota's first African American sheriff. Born and raised in Cook County, Lyght became sheriff of his hometown.
April 7, 1989 - Dick Braun, director of the Center for Transporation Studies at the University of Minnesota, answers listener questions about transportation issues facing Minnesota...including highway congestion, road conditions, the gasoline tax proposal at the legislature, etc.
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April 13, 1989 - A Midday broadcast of a speech by author and broadcaster Studs Terkel given in Minneapolis at the Westminster Town Hall Forum. Terkel’s address is entitled "America's Two Faces…Concerning Greed."
April 13, 1989 - Robert Collins reviews Kevin Kling's play Lloyd's Prayer.
April 13, 1989 - MPR’s Euan Kerr reports on commentary from author and oral historian Studs Terkel, who expresses his concern over the lack of knowledge of history in the public sphere. Terkel says it has led to what he describes as shamelessness.