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 installment 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.
February 12, 1993 - An interview on President Clinton’s tax proposal and how corporate tax hike will affect economy.
February 9, 1993 - An interview about the benefits of tax indexing to taxpayers.
January 29, 1993 - MPR’s Leif Enger reports on health concerns for workers at strand board plant in Deerwood, Minnesota. The apparent culprit…methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, or MDI.
January 1, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles Minneapolis police officer Sharon Lubinski, who has come out as a lesbian to the department. Lubinski shares both the her reasons and fears on making her sexuality public.