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A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including EPA Administrator Christie Whitman on the Bush administration's decision to uphold new regulations on toxic lead; Randy Eddy of La Crosse, Wisconsin and Wisconsin Governor Scott McCallum; Greg Stewart, who led a campaign to keep Mississippi's current state flag which features the Confederate battle emblem and Blake Wilson, Director, Mississippi Economic Council, who supported removing the emblem; Jim Glassman, Senior Economist, J.P. Morgan; demonstrators clashing with police at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Canada; President George W. Bush; Jordan's Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah Khatib and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.

Liane speaks with Dee Bruemmer, director of public works in Davenport, Iowa, about flooding along the Mississippi River that is expected to crest in Davenport in the next couple of days. The city has opted for an open river view, rather than build a flood wall, and people there are anxiously monitoring the rising water.

In the wake of Mississippi's voting to keep the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol, commentator Diane Roberts looks at the new south and finds disturbing reminders of the past.

Lisa speaks with two former mayors of Cincinnati, Ohio: David Mann, who is white, and Dwight Tillery, who is black. They discuss the racial tensions that seem present in Cincinnati after the shooting death of an unarmed black citizen by a white police officer. Because of rioting and looting, a public curfew was imposed, which ended last week.

In our third monthly installment of Along for the Ride, guest reporter Michele Serros travels in search of mole and Mexican roots in New York City. Poet Serros is author of Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard (Riverhead Books).

Lisa speaks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea about the talks amongst world leaders at the Summit.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports from Quebec on protests at the Summit of the Americas. Police used water cannons and tear gas against rock-throwing activists on Saturday. More than 30 nations are attending the summit, in which President Bush and other leaders are debating a free trade zone, which some oppose.

From member station KUOW in Seattle, Luke Burbank reports on the fading fortunes of the Vancouver Grizzlies. It's been six years since the National Basketball Association expanded to Vancouver, and the team is struggling to survive. Losses on the court and at the ticket office have made the team owner start looking toward a possible relocation to the U.S.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City.

Joey Ramone, lead singer of the punk group the Ramones, died last week at age 49. Essayist Jane Krosby Braden remembers how her older sister introduced her to the music of the Ramones.