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A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Venus Williams, winner of the women's singles at the Wimbledon tennis tournament; President Bill Clinton; Vice President Al Gore; Texas governor George W. Bush; scientists at the countdown of the missile defense project test, and Air Force Lt. General Ronald Kadish.

In the first part of a summer series on celebrity gardens, NPR gardening expert Ketzel Levine visits actor John Spencer at his home in Bel Aire, California and tours his garden. Spencer is a transplant from New Jersey, and he favors roses, delphiniums, hollyhocs, and the like. Levine points out that those plants don't appear as healthy as the ones that are native to Southern California.

Speaking to the National Council of La Raza in San Diego, California, Wednesday, Texas Governor George W. Bush vowed to streamline the nation's immigration progress if elected president. He said he would spend more money to create "a new standard of service" in the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Mexico City on Vicente Fox, the winner of yesterday's presidential election. The man who ended the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party's 71-year monopoly on power is a rancher and the former head of Coca-Cola for Latin America. He also served as a Mexican state governor. He is expected to continue current government policies on the economy and trade, while maintaining Mexico's close ties to the United States.

NPR's David Welna reports that barring last minute roadblocks, Illinois Governor George Ryan will become the first sitting US governor to visit Cuba under Castro's rule, even though many in his party are denouncing the trip.

Commentator Sam Fulwood says Virginia Governor George Allen's decision to declare April Confederate History and Heritage month was done for short term political gains without any consideration for the long term damage it could have on race relations. Allen's move serves only to push people further into the color-coded camps at the extremes of the race debate. His decision to honor the Confederacy without any mention of slavery was dishonest.

Scott talks to Judy McFarlane, former business owner in Montana who was told she could not use the name 'Montana Broke' for her business. French designer Claude Montana holds the exclusive rights to the name 'Montana'. In support of his state's business owners, the governor of Montana has asked the U-S patent office to review Claude Montana's claim.

with top grade academic qualifications were denied college eligibility last year by the NCAA. These rejections so angered parents, educators and governors that the NCAA has had to respond with new information to schools around the nation.

attending the National Governors Conference in Washington, DC.

a Democrat, who is Chairman of the National Governors Association, about two prominent topics at this year's annual convention in Washington: welfare reform and Medicaid. The governors are concerned that changes in the two entitlement programs will save money for the federal government, but shift much of the cost to the states.