March 13, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter reports on the difficulty to prosecute child abuse on Red Lake and other Indian reservations. On most reservations, state criminal laws don’t apply. The federal government is responsible for prosecuting serious cries under federal law. While child sex abuse is prohibited under federal law, child physical abuse is not.
March 10, 1993 - Midday’s Gary Eichten interviews a St. Thomas theology professor on the distinction between cults and a legitimate religion. Its part comparison, part study, and part judgment.
March 9, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger profiles The Up North Family Theatre in Brainerd, Minnesota. The children’s theatre founder hopes to create an important arts institution in the area.
March 8, 1993 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder interviews a member of Minnesota Historical Society about new issuance of Native language books, including A Dakota-English Dictionary by Stephen R. Riggs, and An English-Dakota Dictionary by John P. Williamson.
March 5, 1993 - MPR’s Maja Beckstrom profiles Warm Wind in China, a Canadian AIDS play debuting in Rochester. Report includes interview with playwright Kent Stetson.
March 5, 1993 - On this First Friday program, MPR’s Beth Friend presents story and interview collection that includes: A look at Menstrual Wealth Catalogue; Isabell Mink reads from Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo; Bill Paternostro on sidewalk star making in Hollywood; Minnesota Orchestra labor dispute; filmmaker Kathleen Swann on a Minnesota murder; Jeff Hitt on artificial life; and Pulitzer prize winner Oscar Hijuelos discusses The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien.
March 3, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Mark Steil profiles the Zytec Corporation in Redwood Falls, Minnesota. Steil interviews members of business about it’s non-traditional approach of worker self-management, an idea fostered by American business theorist W. Edwards Deming.
February 27, 1993 - MPR’s Elizabeth Stawicki profiles the Minnesota music group Sounds of Blackness. Report includes interviews with founder Russell Knighton and black students of Macalester College.
February 26, 1993 - On this segment of Voices from the Heartland, a reading of author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Absolution.
February 13, 1993 - MPR’s Leif Enger visits Sauk Rapids and presents a Weekend Edition profile on the sport of roping in the depths of a Minnesota winter.