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As newspapers fold across the country, a citizen journalist in a small Alabama town keeps watch over the local government. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on June 11, 2023.)

As newspapers fold around the country, a citizen journalist in a small Alabama town keeps watch over the local government.

In The Moment ... January 25, 2019 Show 502 Hour 1This week's featured poet is Sharon Olds.

Students are pitching in to help ease staffing shortages in Missouri's Northwest School District. Teens Carissa Lunte and Savannah Darner share their experiences for our series "Outbreak Voices."

With the Hollywood writers strike over, actors will now get a shot at cutting their own deal with studios and streaming services after SAG-AFTRA said negotiations would resume Monday.

What started as a "summer fling" 23 years ago has almost become a real job for the members of the Austin Lounge Lizards. Their latest CD, Strange Noises In the Dark, skewers everthing from Saddam to lederhosen to exotic food. NPR's Bob Edwards talks with the band.

In the Moment invited several fiddles and several friends into the Leo P. Flynn Gallery for a live performance. Listen to the music and history of Fiddles and Friends.

Georgetown University is taking steps to atone for its ownership of slaves in the 1830s. Among other things, the elite school will make it easier for descendants of those slaves to gain admission.

Despite the daunting health challenges Haiti faces, the country has achieved a major step toward eliminating the parasitic infection, which causes severe swelling of the legs. Haiti is on track to wipe out the disease within four years, scientists say.

In the second of a two-part performance chat, NPR's Bob Edwards talks to songwriter and pianist Randy Newman, who plays and sings some of his kinder, gentler compositions.