March 22, 1993 - A collection of news reports and interviews on this hour of Midday.
March 22, 1993 -
March 22, 1993 - MPR’s Gary Eicthen interviews Lois Quam about plan being developed regarding national health care situation. Quam serves on the Clinton administration's health reform task force.
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March 23, 1993 - As part of a week long focus on education in Minnesota, Midday hosts a roundtable discussion on expectations for public schools, featuring a parent, a teacher, a major employer, a school board member, and an education expert.
March 24, 1993 - An MPR documentary about the proliferation of weapons in the schools and the tendency of young people to resort to violence as a way of solving problems. MPR reporters Dan Gunderson, Mark Zdechlik, Donna Nicholson and Kate Smith present various viewpoints from students, teachers, police, parents and others.
March 24, 1993 - American writer Natalie Goldberg shares another reading from her book, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America. This reading excerpt reflects on a childhood French teacher. Goldberg has deep roots in Minnesota, having studied for 12 years with Katagiri Roshi at the Minnesota Zen Center.
March 25, 1993 - MPR’s Bruce MacDonald interviews Forrest Peterson, editor of the West Central Tribune in Willmar, about on phone scandal involving Alan Welle, Majority Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Peterson details reactions of constituents in the area.
March 26, 1993 - On this segment of Voices from the Heartland, Hibbing native and second-generation Korean American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee reads from her new book, Finding My Voice.
March 26, 1993 - Martin Brennan had a map of Laos and Thailand behind him and an interpreter by his side as he sought to convince a Hmong audience at a Saint Paul church that relatives still in Thailand could return to Laos safely. Brennan is coordinator of Refugee and Migration Affairs for the United States Embassy in Thailand. Last year the Thai government closed Ban Vinai, the largest Hmong refugee camp and will close another by the end of the year. Brennan came to the Twin Cities to ease fears in the Hmong community that refugees who go back to Laos will be persecuted or even killed upon their return.