As a decades long staple to the listening audience, Morning Edition combines a host program in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington and Los Angeles, bringing news from overnight and information throughout the state and world. Programming includes reports and interviews.
June 6, 1995 - MPR’s Perry Finelli interviews Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad about the state of affairs in Major League Baseball. Topics include salary cap and revenue sharing. Pohlad also comments on Twins promotions developed to increase fan attendance at ballpark.
October 13, 1995 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports on researchers trying to figure the reason for the smaller than expected annual moose count in Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge. If disease is the culprit, where are the bodies? It may come down to human error.
December 26, 1995 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger profiles Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud, and highlights the North Dakota author’s last incomplete book, “Close the Door Gently.” Enger visits his wife, Beverly, who reminisces about their life and work.
February 16, 1996 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter profiles Minnesota carpenter John Harren. The Warroad resident makes the long narrow sled for Canadian hunters and trappers in the far north of Canada.
March 4, 1996 - Mainstreet Radio’s Rachel Reabe reports on various citizen police academies starting up throughout the state. Reabe interviews citizens and law enforcement officials about the purpose and results of experience.
March 13, 1996 - MPR’s Marianne Combs reports on ice fishing along and on Lake Superior during winter, when ice flows become fishing opportunities…but not without potential costs and risks to life.
March 18, 1996 - MPR’s Justin Maiman visited Nye's to speak with “Sweet” Lou Snider, the establishment’s long-time pianist. Snider shares thoughts on her unique work. Everyone Lou Snider meets on her job thinks they're a singer. Snider leads all the vocalists who step up to her piano bar at Nye's Polonaise Room in Minneapolis, and many an interaction occurs.
March 20, 1996 - With many fish hatcheries planning to stop stocking Lake Trout in Lake Superior after 1996, MPR’s Marianne Combs reports on the status of fish species and concerns over the obstacles fish still face in repopulating the lake.
March 22, 1996 - There are many creation stories explaining how the Earth took its form and how civilizations came to be, including the massive waters of Lake Superior. People gathered at the Lake Superior Center in Duluth to hear the stories and myths of the Ojibwe culture…here's a sampling of what they heard.
March 26, 1996 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger profiles Wahkon, a small community at the south end of Lake Mille Lacs, where there is an authentic small-town renewal driven by a combination of optimism and fear.