The New Orleans government may not be able to make payroll this year as the city faces a $160 million deficit and severe cash flow problems. This means that city employees may not receive another paycheck before the end of the year.

The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate’s Ben Myers joins us for more.

Louisiana has one of the highest populations of deaf and blind people in the nation. To support this community at LSU, the university has been making all sorts of accommodations, including hiring a blind and low vision specialist, creating a braille library and hosting its first-ever “white cane day.”

Tracy Blanchard, director of LSU’s Disability Services, and Silent McCarthy, LSU’s blind and low vision specialist, tell us more about these initiatives.

NPR has lost a giant. Susan Stamberg was an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program. She died at the age of 87. 

NPR’s David Folkenfilk reflects on her life, legacy and ways she shaped NPR as one of its so-called “founding mothers.” 

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