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Halloween is here and the nights are lengthening. That makes it easier to look at the stars in the sky.

Commentator Jill Maxi Schreibman knows firsthand what it's like to be laid off by a dot-com company.. .and she's determined not to go through it again.

Members of the community of Chelsea, Vt., gathered last night in a church basement to reflect on the murders of two Dartmouth University professors. Two teenagers are accused in the crime. Host Noah Adams speaks with psychiatrist Andy Pomerantz, who was at the meeting. Pomerantz says it was a time for people to question what the tragedy says about their own community.

California Gov. Gray Davis is struggling to patch together a plan that will save the state's big utilities from bankruptcy while protecting consumers from whopping rate increases. It's a tall order. Utilities, lawmakers, power generators and consumer advocates are pressing their very different interests in high stakes negotiations. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on the month since Bill Clinton left the White House. The former president, his pardons, his gifts, his wife and his relatives have been constantly in the news. Democrats had expected the post-presidency Clinton to be a party leader. Now they're not sure what to make of him or his future.

Commentator Leis Wiehl says a federal judge in Illinois got it wrong when he gave a longer sentence to one of two people convicted in the burglary and arson of a Jewish community center.

In a report filed for the BBC, Richard Galpin reports thousands of refugees are being evacuated from the island of Borneo in Indonesia to get them away from ethnic warfare.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports that the Governor's Election Reform task force is recommending that Florida adopt optical scanning statewide to count votes.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Michael Waltrip, the winner of Sunday's Daytona 500, on the late Dale Earnhardt; racing fan Cecil Inman; Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Louis Freeh on Robert Philip Hanssen who was arrested on charges of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia; Steve Gottlieb, founder and president of TVT Records, and Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Eminem and Elton John performing Stan at Wednesday night's Grammy ceremony; Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democrat, New York) and President George W. Bush.

This week, the Supreme Court handed down a controversial decision that significantly reduces the impact of the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act. Liane speaks with NPR's Nina Totenberg about the effect of that ruling and the pattern that seems to be developing in the court's protection of states' rights.