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The head of an education foundation commissioned by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to review the state's new teacher evaluation system says it’s…

By Todd HattonParis, TN – Storm damage in Henry County, Tennessee has been estimated at a cost of more than $1 million. That's according to County…

2: Journalist HOWARD KURTZ. He is media reporter for "The Washington Post." He has a new book, "Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers," (Times Books). In the book he looks at how the press has bungled some important stories like the HUD scandal and the S&L mess, the William Kennedy Smith trial, and the Clarence Thomas hearings.

Author Peter Stark really loves winter. He has written lovingly bout the joys of ice and snow. Many of the pieces he's written for Smithsonian nd Outside magazines now appear in a new book: "Driving to Greenland - Arctic ravel, Northern Sport, and Other Ventures into the Heart of Winter." Reporter illiam Marcus accompanied Stark on a crunchy ice-climbing adventure, and rought back the details.

As the Israeli Parliament the "Knessit" decides on the fate of the borders between Israel and the Palestinian - controlled Gaza strip, Danny talks to Washington Post reporter Glenn Frankl. Frankl, who has covered the region for many years, feels that whether the border is kept closed or left open the situation is very tenuous. Frankl's new book is called "Beyond the Promised Land - Jews and Arabs on a hard road to a new Israel.

FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS, NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE MEXICAN PESO DEVALUATION ON U.S. BUSINESSES. WHILE SALES OF SOME U.S. IMPORTS TO MEXICO HAVE PLUMMETED SOME BUSINESSES ARE REAPING ADVANTAGES IN REDUCED LABOR COSTS AND LOWER IMPORT PRICES FOR GOODS COMING FROM MEXICO.

Every year residents of San Juan Capistrano expect locks of swallows to return from their winter hiatus in Argentina. They are due o arrive today. The eaves of the local mission in this southern California town ave served as swallow nesting sites for decades. NPR's Mandelit (man-duh-LEET) elBarco reports that the mission has undergone renovations that damaged the ests, and citizens are worried that the swallows will not return.

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.

A certain co-dependence has long driven the relationship etween lobbyists and politicans in the Nation's capital. Much influence and nformation is channeled through these contacts. NPR's Peter Overby visited the efferson Group, a professional lobbying office in Washington D.C., and reports n the current state of this relationship, as well as the influence community's esponse to the first one-hundred days of the Republican-led Congress.

A deadly storm hit the northern part of Texas late Friday night killing at least 9 people and injuring over 100. With winds topping 70 mph, power was knocked out at Dallas-Fort Worth Internatinal Airport causing flight delays and flood waters poured into Baylor University Medical Centre contaminating emergency equitpment. Member station KERA's Bill Zeeble reports.