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NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that a traditional form of Cuban music and dance that is rarely heard on the island is thriving in one part of Mexico. In the streets of the port city of Veracruz, you can often find live danzon concerts, and dozens of couples dancing to the melody. Even young people have fallen in love with the danzon. A local danzon troupe has toured the US, Canada and Europe.

The longest continuously running radio program in the world ended today. Rambling with Gambling was 75 years old. It had been on WOR in New York City since 1925 -- always hosted by someone named John Gambling: father, son and grandson. It was a morning program that started as an exercise show and became light talk, music, news and traffic & weather.

Noah talks with Beverly Lennen, Deputy Chief of Police for Santa Fe, about the usually high number of calls about skunks in her city. The animals are having a hard time finding food because of the dry weather, and so have come to town for Santa Fe cuisine. They've been feasting on leftovers in garbage bags and compost piles.

Most people don't think of rivers when they think of Los Angeles, but in fact, the city does have one. And as Laura Sydell reports, activists are working hard to beautify that body of water which has become much more closely associated with scary scenes in movies than a bucolic retreat for local residents.

Frank Browning reports on an effort to reduce the number of heroin overdoses in San Francisco. The city has the dubious distinction of the highest rate of heroin overdoses in the country. A group called UFO -- You Find Out -- is trying to teach drug users how to shoot up more safely, and medical techniques like CPR to save lives.

Magic City Acceptance Academy in Birmingham, Alabama, is the first school in the South with the mission to affirm LGBTQ+ students.

This week the Texas Legislature passed a law making it LEGAL to carry a concealed weapon. Daniel talks with Democratic Texas state legislator Ron Wilson who authored the bill. And officer Mike Robbins, a Chicago city policeman who opposes laws that legalize the carrying of concealed weapons and who has worked against the passage of similar legislation in Illinois.

Crowds clashed with police in several cities following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma.

Las Vegas, Nevada is the city of one-armed bandits - and also, the quickie wedding. NPR's Jacki Lyden reports on what some have called America's Lourdes of Love. She meets people of all ages and from all parts of the country who have chosen a Vegas theme wedding as the best way to start life with the one they love, or at least the one they end up with at the altar.

This week we are airing a series of commentaries on the issue of "English only." Today we hear from Judy Chu, a councilwoman for the city of Monterey Park, California. She believes advocates of English-only divide communities and see immigrants as easy scapegoats rather than looking closely at all the ways to bring immigrants and others into the mainstream of American society.