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Jacki talks to NPR's Brian Naylor about the lastest budget cuts in Congress. Last week House appropriations subcomittes cut $7.2 billion from non-military domestic programs such as low income housing and nutritional programs for pregnant women and children.

Jacki speaks with Professor Dirk Vandewalle of Dartmouth College..and Algerian artist TAhar Bouqeterie about the recent violence in Algeria. More than 30-thousand people have been killed in that conflict.

Jacki talks to Jean Bach, producer of the documentary film, "A Great Day in Harlem," which tells the story of a famous photograph of 57 jazz musicians taken in front of a Harlem brownstone in 1958. A young novice photographer, Art Kane, put the word out that the jazz musicians in New York City should all show up at a certain corner one summer morning... and the gathering became a jazz family reunion as much as a photo shoot.

Rock Historian Ed Ward continues his five part series on what impact several small record companies have had on the music world. Today he discusses musician Chris Blackweel and the origins of his label, Island. Rev. 2: World music critic Milo Miles has a review of a new CD called "If You Don''t Know Me by Now: The Best of Harold Melvin and Blue Notes." (Legacy''s Rhythm & Soul S

For the past 350 years, the people of New England have held town meetings as a forum to thrash out local issues and vote on them. Some consider these meetings the oldest and purest form of democracy in the United States. But Leda Hartman reports that in New Hampshire, this venerable institution may come to an end if the state legislature passes a law that allows local issues to be resolved by secret ballot.

Daniel talks to Goeran Carstedt, President of Ikea North America about his company's take on American lifestyles. According to an Ikea report Americans center all their furnishings around the television...which is getting bigger and bigger. By contrast in Ikea's homebase Sweden, people tend to centre their lifestyles around a dining room sets..they talk more and watch T.V. less.

CIO - Jacki talks to Michael Kazin - a labor historian at The American University about the AFL-CIO conference that just concluded in Bal Harbour, Florida. At that meeting AFL-CIO leader of 16 years Lane Kirkland was challenged and unionists are hinting at a possible replacement. Kazin discusses the state of the Labor movement and the future of the AFL-CIO.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MIKE VEECK (VECK), OWNER OF THE ST. PAUL SAINTS MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM, ABOUT THE EFFECT THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STRIKE IS HAVING ON MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. AND SYNDICATED CARTOONIST JEFF McNELLY READS FROM HIS RECENT WORK, A TAKE-OFF OF "CASEY AT THE BAT."

Daniel talks with NPR's Maria Hinojosa, who covered the economic and refugee crises in Cuba six months ago and returned to the island recently to find significant changes in both Cuba's economy and mood. State-sanctioned farmers' markets are flourishing, food is plentiful and Cubans appear upbeat, Hinojosa says. But with the Castro dictatorship still in power, these changes have no legal protection.

Jacki talks to Margerie Rosen about the popualar Lady's Home Journal column "Can this marriage be saved" and her new book.