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Host Bob Edwards speaks with Teresa LePore, elections supervisor of Palm Beach County, Florida. The state has municipal elections Tuesday, and officials are promising none of the problems of the November election, and none of the butterfly ballots.

NPR's Chris Arnold profiles a man considered a "social entrepreneur", who gave up a big-city law career to defend death-row inmates and prisoners denied medical care. That lawyer, Steven Bright, goes about his work at the Southern Center for Human Rights with a zeal usually associated with those in the high-tech sector.

Commentator Matt Miller says President Bush's proposed tax cut will empty the government's stockpiles exactly when it should be filling them.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about President Bush's efforts to get his tax cut plan approved by the Senate. Mr. Bush is in Florida today, hoping to gain the support of the two Democratic Florida senators.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the controversy over the military machine that's an airplane and helicopter in one--the Osprey V 22. It was developed specifically for the Marine Corps, but after two of the aircrafts crashed last year, many are asking the Pentagon to reconsider the Osprey program.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the march of Zapatista rebels to the Mexican capital, where they hope to renew the peace process.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Ramallah on Secretary of State Colin Powell's trip to the Middle East. Today he was in the West Bank and will travel to Kuwait tomorrow.

President Bush plans to present an outline of his budget plan to Congress on Tuesday. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that Britain is trying to contain an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. All slaughterhouses have been closed and exclusion zones have been placed around at least nine farms. Foot and mouth disease afflicts hoofed animals, and is said to pose no health threat to humans.

Scott Horsley of member station KPBS in San Diego reports that California residents may face higher gas prices as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision yesterday. The court upheld a patent held by Unocal Corp on the reformulated gasoline that is used in California and in many other urban areas around the country. Now the major oil companies will have to begin paying royalties to Unocal.