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One year ago, President Bush made a speech from Jackson Square in New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina. In it, he made several promises to area residents. NPR White House correspondent David Greene reviews how the process has worked.

A few years ago, trees started coming down across the road from Joan Graham's Michigan horse farm. She set in place a plan to conserve her land after her death by giving it to a conservancy. But just to be safe, she added a grave twist: She would have her body — and anyone else who wanted to join her — buried on the land.

Airs Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Been There, Done That 2

A San Diego theater stages a play about an outsider artist, reminding me of one who lives close by in the California desert. This is the story of our trip to meet Leonard Knight and climb his Salvation Mountain.

If you're a fan of HBO's "True Blood," you'll want to head to the Casbah tonight to see alt-country crooner Jace Everett, the man behind the show's "Bad Things" opener.

The San Diego City Council gave approval on Monday to a plan to build a new Central Library in the East Village. How will the new facility be an upgrade over the current Central Library? And, where will the additional $32.5 million come from to complete the project? We speak to Mayor Jerry Sanders, the director of the San Diego Public Library, and the vice chair of the San Diego Public Library Foundation.

Airs Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Professors of computational media at Georgia Tech say that gaming technology can be used to make advancements in everything from medicine to social justice and media. The school is one of 250 colleges and universities that are catering to the growing interest in gaming degrees.

The House is voting on a $124 billion measure to fund the war in Iraq for the rest of the fiscal year that also sets a goal for U.S. forces to be out of Iraq by next spring. President Bush has promised to veto the measure because of the timeline.