Next on The Metropolitan Opera

Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde (left) and Jay Hunter Morris is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. Fabio Luisi conducts.
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Saturday, February 11, at 12 noon (NOTE EARLY START TIME - ATC pre-empted and This American Life will air at 10 p.m.)

PolitiFact Tennessee is a partnership between WUOT News and the Knoxville News Sentinel. Each Friday morning, Chrissy Keuper sits down with News Sentinel reporters Tom Humphrey in Nashville and Michael Collins in Washington. They'll take a look at some of the comments being made by Tennessee's politicians and elected officials and attempt to separate fact from fiction. They'll put them on the Truth-O-Meter to see if their claims are legitimate or if their pants are on fire.
Week 1: Tom Humphrey in Nashville, whose first item has to do with one of Tennessee's federal representatives...
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Week 2: Michael Collins, Washington DC Reporter for the News Sentinel and a member of the PolitiFact Tennessee team...
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Week 3: Tom Humphrey in Nashville on what’s becoming quite a scandal for a local representative...
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WUOT News Feature

It’s been just over two years since a powerful earthquake hit the country of Haiti. Among the many efforts to rebuild the country, University of Tennessee architecture professor John McRae and former graduate-student Wyn Miller are working in an area called Fond des Blancs, about 70 miles from capital city Port au Prince. WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper speaks with McRae and Miller, who are working with UT students to help improve the area’s infrastructure. On the drawing board: a major road and bridge project, water quality improvements, and a school, under construction and scheduled to open in September…
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>>listen to Wyn Miller on Haiti's charcoal industry and its effect on the country