February 1, 2005 - American RadioWorks presents the documentary “Say it Plain - A Century of African American Oratory.” Spanning the 20th century, this audio speech collection is a vivid account of how African Americans sounded the charge against racial injustice, exhorting the country to live up to its democratic principles.
September 1, 1999 - American RadioWorks presents the documentary “The Fertility Race,” a summary of compiled reports on series about the social implications of infertility and the advanced reproductive techniques designed to correct the condition.
May 21, 1998 - Mainstreet Radio's Catherine Winter reports on Cass Lake-Bena school district, a small district on the Leech Lake Reservation that has struggled with racial tension for years. The district is trying to serve its Native students better, but the case is still not settled.
April 17, 1998 - As part of Mainstreet Radio’s Treaty Rights and Tribal Sovereignty series, Catherine Winter presents report on the concept called tribal sovereignty, and a look at the where this complex set of rules comes from, and how it affects Indian people today. Report includes various interviews with tribe members.
February 13, 1998 - Mainstreet Radio's Catherine Winter has this remembrance of Terry Wilkey, former Bovey police chief. Wilkey spent more than 30 years on the town's police force and the 800-some residents of Bovey all knew him. But his fame spread much farther; to the Twin Cities, even as far as Texas and North Carolina…because of Terry Wilkey, the writer.
May 22, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter presents a profile of the band, Conga Se Menne. The group from Upper Peninsula of Michigan utilizes some bongos, steel drums, and a tropical beat. They call their music Finnish reggae. The reggae beat is surprisingly similar to the Finnish schottish and soca is not far from a polka.
April 25, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter talks with northern Minnesota painter Liz Sivertson about her work and what forms her creative inspiration. They preview and exhibition of paintings by Sivertson: colorful, whimsical pictures she did for the children's book “North Country Spring.”
April 11, 1997 - Mainstreet Radio's Catherine Winter visits “Patzoldts' Lost Frontier" in Grand Rapids, the farthest north commercial maple syrup producer in the United States. A cold snap has halted maple syrup production around the state. Sap had started running in the maple trees, but when temperatures plunged, it stopped abruptly. In some cases, the sudden freeze may have damaged the equipment maple syrup producers use.
April 7, 1997 - An Ely man accused of leading police on a high speed snowmobile chase makes a court appearance in Two Harbors today. Mike Loe is charged with snowmobiling in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, where snowmobiling is illegal, and with fleeing from police officers who allegedly spotted him. As with so many things related to the border wilderness, the Loe case has been a focal point for controversy in the Ely area. Mainstreet Radio's Catherine Winter reports.
March 28, 1997 - Three Native American police officers from Minneapolis are visiting the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota this week to teach residents about street gangs. The officers say Native American gang members move back and forth between the Cities and reservations, so parents and teachers need to know a gang symbol when they see one. Catherine Winter of Mainstreet Radio reports.