January 26, 1994 - A Mainstreet Radio special broadcast from City Hall in Nashwauk, Minnesota. Program highlights the history, current state, and future of mining in the Iron Range. In this second hour of program, MPR’s Catherine Winter and Martin Kaste present reports from MPR’s Rachel Reabe and Mark Steil. Following reports, a panel discussion with Doug Schrader, president of the Iron Mining Association of Minnesota; and Bob Roots, lobbyist for United Steel Workers, about mining jobs and future industry.
January 26, 1994 - A Mainstreet Radio special broadcast from City Hall in Nashwauk, Minnesota. Program highlights the history, current state, and future of mining in the Iron Range. In this first hour of program, MPR’s Catherine Winter and Martin Kaste present various reports and interviews from residents, miners, mining companies, and politicians. Following reports, a panel discussion with Jim Gustafson, commissioner of IRRRB; Frederic “Fritz” Knaak, former I-R state representative in White Bear Lake; and Tom Rukavina, DFL state representative from Virginia, who talk about the future of area.
January 3, 1994 - MPR’s Karen Boothe reports on the struggles Southeast Asian elders and research from University of Minnesota Family Studies Professor Dan Detzner. His study looks at the changes in family type and where successes may lie in a bi-cultural environment.
December 24, 1993 - On this Christmas Eve Midday, listeners share Christmas stories and describe what the holiday means to them. Program also contains a reading and closes with holiday music.
December 15, 1993 - Midday presents an MPR documentary titled “A New Kind of Cop,” which looks at community-oriented policing, with a focus on one such program in Lansing, Michigan, which is being modeled by other departments across the country.
December 14, 1993 - Dave Durenberger and Paul Wellstone, Minnesota’s U.S. senators, debate at Minnesota Meeting. The topic of debate is health-care reform. Durenberger is an advocate of managed competition in health care, while Wellstone is an advocate of a single-payer system. 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.
November 24, 1993 - MPR’s John Rabe talks with two Native Americans on their thoughts regarding a celebration of “giving of thanks” and their concept of joining for a mass service of various religious denominations.
November 3, 1993 - MPR’s Tom Fudge reports that supporters and new Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton celebrate her victory and are grateful for the City of Minneapolis. On the other side, supporters of John Derus say that there will be a lot of change now that Minneapolis is under Sayles Belton's leadership.
November 1, 1993 - A reading from an anthology of poems, “Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women,” published in 1993 by Milkweed Editions (Minneapolis, MN). Excerpt is from an introductory narrative and poem written by poet Isabel Fraire.
October 29, 1993 - MPR’s Marianne Combs tours the Gibbs Farm Museum, where guide Ann Bruggeman tells a group of children about the Samhain and Celtic traditions behind items many know as Halloween related.