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NPR's Andy Bowers looks at how some Internet companies will be covering this year's political conventions. In 1996 some dot coms covered the conventions but had to watch as their broadcast and print counterparts were given preferential treatment. This year, not only have many internet companies been given equal access, but both the Republicans and Democrats are broadcasting their own coverage over their web sites.

Host Lynn Neary talks with Republican Andrew Card and Democrat Terry McAuliffe, chairmen of their parties' conventions, about plans for the Republican Convention in Philadelphia and Democratic one in Los Angeles.

Weekend Edition's resident satirists, The Montana Logging and Ballet Company, offer a few "lessons" we can learn from Big Business.

Commentator Andy Borowitz says recent advances in the scientific understanding of the brain might help voters with their decision at the ballot box this November

Linda talks with William G. Gale, a Senior Fellow of Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution about the tax burden on Americans 20 years ago, compared with the tax burden today.

NPR's Elaine Korry reports on the effects of the recent economic downturn in Silicon Valley -- where money that was made fast is money that disappears quickly too. Some of the people who made millions in high-tech start-up companies have watched their fortunes vanish, as stock prices have fallen since March.

Computers are a central part of most businesses. But doctors still tend to rely on paper records and charts to keep track of patients. NPR's Larry Abramson reports that most physicians are resisting efforts to get them to computerize patient information.

Nancy Greenleese reports on the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Sacramento, California this weekend.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports a new study by the group Railwatch says miles and miles of railroad tracks pose potential safety hazards and are not regularly inspected. The report also charges that increased transportation of hazardous materials by rail has raised public health and environmental risks. The railroads strongly dispute the report's allegations.

Pfizer is seeking the FDA's permission to offer a third COVID-19 vaccine dose to those 16 and older. There's data that the vaccine's efficacy is waning and evidence that a booster can reverse that.