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Melinda reviews the news of the week with NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr.

California's Governor Gray Davis announced his plan to avert the possible bankruptcy of his state's utilities. Mr. Davis proposes that the state buy the transmission lines from the utilities. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

A hearing of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was held yesterday. The commission is investigating whether thousands of citizens may have been denied the right to vote in Florida's November elections. NPR's Philip Davis reports.

Melinda talks with Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about some of the movies and performances that did not receive Oscar award nominations.

Melinda with some thoughts about former president Bill Clinton's latest troubles and of the submarine accident in the Pacific.

Amy Tardif, of member station WGCU, reports that an airport in Naples, Florida, has banned certain types of jets because of noise complaints. Though the move is supported by many residents in the area, the ban has angered a number of aviation groups, including the Federal Aviation Administration.

Leda Hartman examines how a third-grade social studies class in North Carolina is using e-mail to teach geography. Students there have received more than 300,000 e-mails from people on every continent. And each time they receive one from a new country or location, they learn all they can about that place.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Vernon Edenfield, president of the George Washington Fredericksburg Foundation, about the economic considerations that factor into the preservation of historic sites. Edenfield claims if the right balance is struck, conservation and preservation can mean good business for local economies.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that there's new hope the fighting in Congo may end. The United Nations is helping to broker the peace, and Congo's new president Joseph Kabila is being credited with making a deal possible.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from New Delhi on an unusual political fight-- Indian prostitutes want to be counted as workers, instead of beggars, in the country's census.