December 7, 1973 - MPR’s Connie Goldman interviews Stillwater prison guards Greg Carlson and Mack Warren on rule revisions and inconsistent enforcement causing problems for inmates.
November 29, 1973 - Connie Goldman asks a group of children what they know of or have heard about the energy crisis gripping the United States. Answers range from blame on Nixon and his travels to the issues stemming from the Middle East.
November 28, 1973 - MPR’s Connie Goldman interviews author and journalist James E. Myers, who discusses his book "Bridge of Time: View of the Israeli People".
November 27, 1973 - Len Doucette, founder and head of Reach Out Today, discusses the issues and realities of what ex-cons have to face upon leaving incarceration. He also discusses the purpose and mission of Reach Out Today, which is an agency that is there to help support and guide ex-cons on how to cope with their new found freedom, and to reduce recidivism.
November 27, 1973 - An interview with Jim Kirkholm of Honda Town and Elden Davis of Minnesota Marine in which the gasoline shortages and energy crises and their effects on the pleasure/lesiure craft industry are discussed. Motorcycles seem to be free of this crisis, and hopes are that boats, come summer, will be as well.
October 18, 1973 - A plaza may surround the Minnesota Orchestra Concert Hall building now being built. The Peavey company is giving money towards this project, which will be eventually be called the Peavey Park Plaza. The concert hall will finish being constructed first, and is scheduled to open in October 1974. Donald P. Engle, President of the Minnesota Orchestral Association, says he can see possibilities for presenting summer concerts in this space.
October 17, 1973 - Israeli artist Dan Rubenstein is inspired from the city of Jerusalem, its people and history. He says it?s a city where many different groups can live together and tolerate each other, an island of peace in the Middle East.
October 16, 1973 - A free arts and music festival was held in Smith Park in downtown St. Paul to celebrate life and bid farewell to summer. Many people commented on how they were enjoying themselves, as well as the feeling of community.
October 15, 1973 - Connie Goldman report of a day-long seminar on the elimination of sex bias in education.
October 15, 1973 - Connie Goldman discusses Irish traditional music with musicians, who share both insight on its history and play various melodies.