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Jerome Vaughn of member station WDET reports on the move by Ford Motors to stop producing trucks and start producing tires at three of its plants -- this in response to the recall of Firestone-Bridegstone tires on some Ford trucks that was instituted last week.

Commentator Bill Lessard -- an experienced dot-com employee himself -- says that all those perks you hear about at technology companies don't really add up to as much as workers think they're getting.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports that Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater is assembling a federal task force to monitor airline performance after a summer travel season marred by thousands of flight delays.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on George W. Bush's campaign stops in Wisconsin and Iowa yesterday. While visiting schools and veterans, the Texas governor has been speaking to voters about education and military spending.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the latest development on the Russian submarine that sank in the Arctic Barents Sea more than a week ago. After more than a week of desperate attempts to rescue the crew, on board the Kursk, yesterday the Russian navy formally announced that they were all dead.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports on the growing political clout of Chile's native Mapuche Indians. Although timber companies hold the title to much of the country's valuable forest land, the Mapuche claim it belongs to them. They've occupied and set fire to some of the land. The timber companies remain unsympathetic, but other parts of Chilean society are beginning to consider the Mapuche's views.

From member station WNYC in New York, Amy Eddings reports that 35-thousand Verizon Communications employees are still on strike despite an agreement that was reached over the weekend. Approximately 50-thousand of the telephone workers in New York and New England who were on strike returned to work yesterday after the agreement was reached.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on Air France's decision to ban smoking on all its flights. The company banned cigarettes on its domestic and European flights a decade ago.

Host Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts about political events this week. Now that the Republican and Democratic conventions are out of the way, both Al Gore and George W. Bush are hitting the campaign trail with more vigor.

Host Renee Montagne talks to Maurice Isserman, about his biography of the late political activist and Morning Edition Commentator, Michael Harrington. Harrington's book, The Other America, had a profound effect on the 1960's debate over race and poverty. Harrington introduced the term, 'the culture of poverty,' which described poverty in socio-economic terms. He was a democratic socialist, who advocated the 'politics of coalition.' (8:30) Maurice Isserman's biography is titled, The Other American: the Life of Michael Harrington is published by Public Affairs; ISBN: 18916