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'Straw Purchases' Get Keen Eye In Gun Debate

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Originally published on Sat April 13, 2013 10:11 am

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

This is WEEKEND EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. The U.S. Congress reached a compromise this week. If that's not surprising enough, the issue is guns.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: On this vote the yeas are 68, the nays are 31. Three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.

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Saying Goodbye To The Grand Canyon's Mail Mules

By Laura Morales

Originally published on Mon April 15, 2013 8:57 am

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The U.S. Postal Service announced this week that it would postpone the end of Saturday mail delivery, which it had proposed to stop earlier in the year, but mail service will halt at the bottom of the Grand Canyon where mules have delivered the mail since the 1920s. The company that runs the mule train says they will no longer deliver packages starting next week. The service was a way for loved ones to send care packages to guides rafting down the Colorado River. Laurel Morales of member station KJZZ reports from Flagstaff.

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Before Disney, Florida's Silver Springs Lured Tourists

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A glass-bottomed boat glides along water in Silver Springs, Fla. The springs, once a major tourist destination, have declined both in volume and in water quality.

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Alligators sun themselves along the waters of Silver Springs.

By Greg Allen

Originally published on Sat April 13, 2013 5:24 pm

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Before Disney World, Silver Springs in Central Florida was for decades one of the state's most popular tourist destinations.

Even if you've never visited Silver Springs, you might have seen it. The 1960s television show Sea Hunt was filmed here, as were countless movies, including Tarzan and Creature From the Black Lagoon.

The crystal clear water of Silver Springs made it invaluable to Hollywood. Guy Marwick, the founder of the Silver River Museum, says it drew more than 1 million visitors a year.

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In NPR's New Building, Everything Will Be Better ... Again

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NPR is heading to its fourth home, at 1111 North Capitol St. in Washington, D.C.

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Daniel Schorr, veteran journalist, died in 2010.

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Susan Stamberg and Bob Edwards in 1978, at the M Street building.

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Originally published on Sat April 13, 2013 10:11 am

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'All Things Considered' Story On The Move From M Street In 1994

Starting Saturday, Weekend Edition is broadcasting under the fourth roof that's sheltered National Public Radio. NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg has worked in all of the locations since NPR went on the air in 1971, and once again she shepherds us to our new home.

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Obama, Republicans Agree On Tax Loopholes, But Little Else

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Copies of President Obama's budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are distributed to Senate staff on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

By Scott Horsley

Originally published on Sat April 13, 2013 12:50 pm

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President Obama's newly released tax return shows his effective income tax rate was 18.4 percent last year. He'll likely pay a somewhat higher rate in 2013, and that tax bill would be even bigger if Congress were to adopt the recommendations in the president's own budget, unveiled this week.

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Immigration Debate Puts Farm Workers Union In Spotlight

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United Farm Workers members were among the crowd that filled the lawn on Capitol Hill during an immigration rights rally Wednesday.

By Don Gonyea

Originally published on Sat April 13, 2013 9:58 pm

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A new immigration bill is expected to be introduced in the U.S. Senate next week, calling for better border security and a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants in the United States without legal status.

One big hurdle toward that was cleared this week when the United Farm Workers reached a deal with growers that would address wages and caps the number of visas allowed for new workers.

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Extreme Drama: The Life And Music Of Richard Wagner

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Rudolph Cronau's drawing of Wagner's opera house, Bayreuth, flanked by his birthplace (left) and place of death.

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Originally published on Sat April 13, 2013 10:11 am

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Richard Wagner was, and still is today, arguably the most controversial figure in classical music. A self-appointed deity and hyperdriven genius, Wagner is often considered the ultimate megalomaniac. He dreamed up and achieved a single-minded plan to change the course of classical music history.

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Dave Matthews Takes John Denver's Music 'To Tomorrow'

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Dave Matthews performs "Take Me to Tomorrow" on The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver.

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Originally published on Sat April 13, 2013 10:31 am

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By the time John Denver died in a plane crash in 1997, he had written and sung a remarkable assortment of cherished music: "Rocky Mountain High," "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Sunshine on My Shoulders," "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and many more. He was often mocked by edgier musicians for being a kind of musically soft, spongy Wonderbread of a singer-songwriter. But his songs have endured — and influenced more than one generation.

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Sat April 6, 2013

Dissecting New York's Mayoral Race Scandal

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Originally published on Sun April 7, 2013 11:08 am

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Undercover agents, wiretaps, shady meetings in parked cars - the unfolding political scandal in the New York City mayor's race has all the right elements for drama. Six politicians - Democrats and Republicans, - have been arrested in an alleged plot to rig a primary in this year's election.

For more, we turn now to Errol Louis. He's the host of NY1's "Inside City Hall" political program and he joins us from New York. Errol, thanks so much for being back with us.

ERROL LOUIS: Absolutely. Glad to be with you.

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Sat April 6, 2013

Week In Sports: Assessing The Rutgers Coach Firing

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Originally published on Sun April 7, 2013 11:08 am

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon and it's time for sports.

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