December 5, 1978 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan presents a report on Minnesota Historical Society’s exhibit, called "The Wish Book." The exhibit explores the role of the mail order catalog in American life at the turn-of-the-century.
December 6, 1978 - MPR’s Dan Olson interviews Helena Sodenberg, tax consultant with Coopers and Lybrand in Minneapolis; and Ceil Victor, tax specialist for performing artists and non-profit organizations, who discuss taxes and tax exemptions for volunteers and performers.
December 11, 1978 - MPR’s Dan Olson interviews Jose Trejo, director of the governor's Spanish Speaking Affairs Council; and Manuel Guerrero, St. Paul attorney and former chair of the Chicano Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, who discuss the plight of illegal aliens in the region.
December 14, 1978 - MPR's John Ydstie, of KCCM in Moorhead, and Dan Olson talk with representatives from American Agriculture Movement. Interviews are with Elmo Olson, North Dakota State coordinator; Tom Benson from Appleton, Minnesota; and Minnesota farmer Duane Carlstrom. In 1977, the American Agriculture Movement, a new organization that had originated in the wheat growing areas of Colorado, was spreading across the country organizing tractorcades, cattle blockades at the Canadian and Mexican borders, and other farmer demonstrations to protest the low price for farm products. The American Agriculture members finally took their demonstrations to Washington to make their point to the President, the Congress, and the Secretary of Agriculture.
December 16, 1978 - On this regional public affairs program, MPR’s Nancy Fushan, with assistance of Claudia Hampston and Roger Gomoll, look at four artists of the Upper Midwest. Fushan interviews sculptors Mariann Angelica, Catherine Mulligan, Steve Beyer, and Judy Onofrio, who discuss their works, thoughts, and views of themselves in society.
December 18, 1978 - Barbara Tuchman, author of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, speaks with Lynn Mitchell about the reality of the 14th century.
December 22, 1978 - Connie Goldman talks with various playwrights who tell her how they write plays.
December 30, 1978 - On this regional public affairs program, MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews Andrew Lindberg, who led a Citizens League study of public pension fund financing. Lindberg discusses controversy surrounding the financial health of some of the largest pension and retirement funds in the country.
December 30, 1978 - On this regional public affairs program, MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews Larry Martin, executive secretary of the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement. Martin discusses explanation of the financial health of the state pension funds and how the Citizens League study might be received by the Commission.
January 2, 1979 - MPR’s Dale Connelly interviews Ann Clark, of the Lesbian Resource Center, about the struggles for lesbian mothers in the community. Clark describes how the center attempts to provide support.