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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.

NPR Senior News Analyst examines recent public statements by members of the Supreme Court, who have perhaps been letting off steam from the contentious end to the Presidential election.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Michele Ligouri from Harvard, Massachusetts. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WBUR in Boston.)

The Harlem Renaissance gave birth to a movement that was social, political, and artistic. To be in Harlem in the 1920s and '30s was to experience everything from the poetry of Langston Hughes to the music of Duke Ellington. Liane talks to Shawn Amos, who produced a new four-CD box set that captures the sounds of the period, and updates them with new readings. It's called Rhapsodies in Black: Words and Music from the Harlem Renaissance. (9:30) (NOTE: Rhapsodies in Black is available on Rhino Records #R2-79874).