We need community radio stations all over the USA.

Each community should have a nonprofit community radio station that, with mostly volunteer labor:

• reads the local news (summaries of stories from various news outlets), followed by information on how to subscribe to these news outlets (same program presented twice day),
   
• reads the local, regional, national and international headlines and news summaries in Spanish (and perhaps any other languages common to the area); (same program presented twice day),
   
• reads the obituaries and death notices for people in and from the area, read the most recent police log (same program presented twice day),
   
• reads out upcoming events: city council meetings, planning commission meetings, community theater productions, high school choir performances, parades, events at the senior center, the local VFW, Rotary Club meetings, etc. (same program presented twice day),
   
• reads out local volunteering opportunities,
   
• interviews the mayor and city council members and the city manager, state legislators, the police chief, the fire chief, leaders of area nonprofits, head of the chamber of commerce, people running local office, head of local animal welfare agencies, a local veterinarian, etc. regularly (perhaps a regular public affairs show every weekday at noon, or once a week, repeated at a different time of day or the week),
   
• interviews someone in another language once a month (same program presented more than once),
   
• interviews teachers, school administrations, coaches, and others to talk about what’s happening in schools (same program presented more than once),
   
• plays certain events live on the air: high school basketball games, football games, baseball games, soccer games, rotary club meetings, etc.
   
• presents a “this day” or “this week” in local history (same program presented more than once),
   
• once a week, has a community singalong, where a person or group sings songs in the public domain, and everyone in the community is invited to sing along, and they lyrics of such are published on the radio stations web site,
   
• has a 30-minute daily program to help people learn Spanish, another for people to learn another language, etc. (same program presented more than once)
   
• presents a different local service by a community of faith or local ethical society every weekend,
   
• welcomes program ideas from community members, like a weekly, limited-series radio serial, written and performed by high school students, or a play now in the public domain, or part of such a place, performed by a local community theater group (anything by Shakespeare, for instance).
  

And in between all that, plays music. Different hours, or half hours, would focus on a different music type.

In addition, the organization would train people on public speaking, radio production, etc.