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Federal, state and local authorities are preparing for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and attempting to prevent repeats of the kinds of protest demonstrations that stopped meetings of the World Trade Organization in Seattle last December. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Philadelphia.

Headed for the beach this fourth of July weekend? That's not such an easy task for some people, who have issues: specifically, bridge issues. Liane Hansen crosses the Chesapeake Bay Bridge with the help of a Vehicle Recovery Technician, whose job it is to drive people, who are afraid of heights and bridges, across the massive span.

NPR's Anthony Brooks examines Vice President Al Gore's campaign, as he moves toward the Democratic Presidential nomination. Gore hopes to use the current economic boom to help propel him into the White House.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports from Hong Kong, where citizens took to the streets this weekend to protest the growing economic crisis. Yesterday marked three years since the former British territory was handed back to China.

It's the first Saturday of the month and host Jacki Lyden and writer Paul Auster bring you the National Story Project from Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. Interested in submitting a story? Send your stories to: PMB 206 123 7th Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11215. You can also email your submission to NationalStoryProject@npr.org. And for more information on the National Story Project and to read this month's stories please visit the National Story Project area.

Today, Mexican voters go to the polls in what is expected to be the most hotly-contested presidential election in the country's history. Mexican voters in the U-S will be participating, as well. Eric Roy reports from member station KCRW in Santa Monica, Ca., that as many as 200-thousand are expected to cast ballots in the U-S.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines US - Cuba relations in the wake of Elian Gonzales' return this past week to Cuba.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Oliver Carling from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WBUR.)

The Montana Logging and Ballet Company offers some common sense solutions for the recent rash of bad political ads, which are soiling the nation's airwaves during this presidential election campaign.

1970's singer/songwriter Jimmie Spheeris created a fantasy-carnival world on his four albums for Columbia Records. He won over devoted fans as he toured the U.S. But his sudden death in the early 1980s meant that all that lingered were echoes. That is, until an Internet designer named Andy Markley met the singer's former bass player, Johnny Pierce, over the internet. They began working together to bring Spheeris' music back. The fans rallied, and now, all of Jimmie's CD's, including an unreleased recording, Spheeris (Rain Records RR006), are in stores. Liane talks with Markley and Pierce, and we get to sample some of this long-unheard music.