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  • He'll trust the U.S. Post Office, not the Web, to handle his tax returns, Matt Peters says.
    Still Mail Your Tax Returns? So Do Some Other Die-Hards
    Fewer and fewer taxpayers still use the mail to file their returns. But for some, it's the only way they'll do it.
  • Kelley Hawkins (left) smiles with her grandmother AnnaBelle Bowers, 87, while at lunch in Harrisburg, Pa. Kelley shares full-time care of AnnaBelle with her sister-in-law LaDonna Martin. Both are nurses with two children each, and move Annabelle, who has limited mobility, every two weeks from one home to another.
    One Roof, Three Generations, Many Decisions
    To cope with the hard times, millions of families have pulled together — stacking two, three, even four generations on top of one another. An NPR series explores the lives of three multigenerational households struggling with issues of money, duty and love.
  • Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey campaigns at a Democratic caucus site on April 14 at Bellevue University in Bellevue, Neb. Kerrey has decided to run again for his old seat in the U.S. Senate.
    Democrat Bob Kerrey Faces Uphill Race In Nebraska
    The former governor and two-term senator is vying for the Senate seat left open by retiring Democrat Ben Nelson. But he's been out of Nebraska for more than a decade, and Republicans now outnumber Democrats in the state by a wide margin.
  • Poet-for-hire Zach Houston works at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco. Houston says he is paid about $2 to $20 for each poem.
    A Poem Store Open For Business, In The Open Air
    Zach Houston makes a living on the streets of San Francisco by composing poems on a manual typewriter. Give him a topic, and he'll pound out a poem in a matter of minutes — hopefully for a donation that will help him stay in business.
  • Oil field workers drill into the Gypsum Hills near Medicine Lodge, Kan. Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to coax out oil and gas has led to a natural gas boom that the U.S. market is having trouble absorbing.
    U.S. Has A Natural Gas Problem: Too Much Of It
    A boom in natural gas in the U.S. has driven prices to 10-year lows, threatening the viability of some producers. People needed less gas to heat their homes this winter, but at the same time a huge increase in gas production was made possible by new methods of coaxing gas out of shale rock formations.
  • China's Policy On Tibet 'Must Be Realistic'
    The Dalai Lama stepped down as the politic leader of Tibet's government-in–exile a year ago to devote himself to spreading a spiritual message of compassion and peace. Still, he's been drawn into talking about violence since a wave of deadly protests swept through the Tibetan areas of China. He talks about those events with Renee Montagne.
  • Board member Anna America
    Tulsa School Board wants funding restored from state
    The Tulsa School Board goes on the record seeking the state to restore school funding. The board passed a resolution calling on the state legislature to…
  • Housing Starts Drop, But Building Permits Are Up
    There was an unexpected decline in ground-breaking on new homes last month. But builders got more permits — a sign that coming months may be stronger.
  • Food stamps kept the carts rolling during the recession.
    Food Stamps Helped Many Families Weather The Recession
    Food stamps helped buffer effects of the economic downturn for millions of families, a new report says. The benefit was particularly strong for children.
  • At Scandal-Ridden Federal Agency, All Sorts Of Abuses
    "Every time we turned over a stone we found 50 more with all kinds of things crawling out," General Services Administration Inspector General Brian Miller told Congress this morning.
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