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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 speaks with Antoinette Russell, who found several autograph books in the drawer of a table she bought at an auction.

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.

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

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

Breslow: NPR's Peter Breslow pays a return visit to Ecuador 25 years after living there and brings back some snapshots.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's former White House correspondent Mara Liasson about the latest developments in the story of former President Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons.

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 Sue Hecht, a Democrat in the Maryland House of Delegates. Hecht saw her mother abused in a care home for the elderly, and she has introduced legislation that would permit video cameras to be placed in nursing homes.

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.