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John Burnett reports that President Bush's first foreign trip won't feel so foreign. The former Texas governor has traveled extensively in Mexico, cultivating friendships with President Vicente Fox and other leaders. Bush and Fox share natural affinities: both have an easy-going, back-slapping, plain-spoken style. The question now is how that translates into the way they deal with complex policy questions.

Commentator and former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts laments that there aren't more women governors.

A radicial approach to boost scores on state standardized tests is being tried by the Kansas City-Missouri School District--inviting students to study on Saturdays. Laura Spencer of member station KCUR in Kansas City reports that if scores don't improve, the state will take over the school district.

The White House today said it is considering a request from California Governor Gray Davis for the federal government to waive some environmental standards so that the state can generate more electricity. NPR's Richard Gonzales has the story.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on difficulties facing Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore in dealing with his own party in the Old Dominion. Gilmore was recently named chairman of the Republican National Committee, but the obstacles facing his attempts to end his state's car tax and to name his successor as governor loom large.

California Governor Gray Davis is hopeful that the long-term contracts the state has begun signing with power generators will guarantee enough electricity at affordable prices to help California recover from its electricity crisis. But others say the deals won't provide much relief, especially during the hot summer months. Meanwhile, a federal judge holds a hearing today on whether to extend his order that a major power generator keep selling electricity to the California market. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Puerto Rico's new governor Sila Calderon. Calderon is the first woman to hold the post, and during her campaign she promised to end U.S. Navy live fire exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques .

Now that California Governor Gray Davis has signed a 10-billion-dollar bond measure, putting the state in the power-buying business, questions abound. Scott Horsley has the story from member station KPBS.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports it has been exactly one year since the Governor of Illinois declared a halt to executions and imposed the country's first moratorium on capital punishment. Since that time, several states have commissioned reviews of the death penalty process and are considering moratoriums as well.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including President George W. Bush; Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan; David O'Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee and Terri Bartlett, director of public policy for Population Action International; California Governor Gray Davis and T.C. Chen of the University of Southern California; and Bob McKerrow, Head of Regional Delegation, International Federation of the Red Cross.