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Scott speaks with journalist and host for member station WBUR's news talk show "Connections" about the Senate race in Massachusetts. It pits Republican governor William Weld against the Democratic incumbent John Kerry.

to stop the wave of arson striking black churches across the South. Yesterday,President Clinton hosted governors from seven Southern States to discuss the matter. And both houses in Congress are moving to make it easier to prosecute those who set churches on fire.

the naming of Deputy White House Counsel Bruce Lindsey as an unindicted co-conspirator in the second Whitewater trial which is getting underway in Little Rock. Lindsey is considered to be one of the President's closest advisors. On trial are two bankers accused of making illegal contributions to then-Arkansas Governor Clinton's gubernatorial reelection campaign in 1990.

Last month, the nation's governors met in Palisades, New York to try to refocus the nation's education reform efforts. As NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, most states now favor smaller, more focused efforts than the grander, national schemes to reinvent education that came from such meetings in the past.

Linda speaks with former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm. He is currently the director of the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues at the University of Denver and supports running a third party candidate for President under the banner of the Reform Party. He feels neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are facing the most serious issue before Americans today: how to cut back the middle class entitlements of Social Security and Medicare as the baby boom generation ages.

on the showdown that's expected at the Republican convention in August over the issue of abortion. Several Republican governors already have promised they will fight to keep anti-abortion language out of the party platform. But Patrick Buchanan and his followers have threatened to walk out of the convention or even launch a third party candidacy, if the platform does not include a strong stand against abortion.

NPR's Jon Greenberg talks with both politicos and average citizens about the impact on local politics of the Whitewater verdicts and the resignation of Governor Jim Guy Tucker.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on fallout in Washington following yesterday's conviction of former Clinton business partners James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker. The White House is trying to make the best of the situation...but the verdicts give new momentum to the Whitewater investigation.

California Governor Pete Wilson is releasing his proposal for the state's budget for the next fiscal year. Wilson says a healthy economy has yielded a two billion dollar surplus, much of which he wants to devote to education. Wilson's effort may be designed as much to help the state's ailing education system as to improve the political climate in a crucial state for fellow Republican Bob Dole. Wilson also wants to introduce a fifteen percent across-the-board tax cut. NPR's Virginia Bigar [BIG-ur] reports.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on the latest skirmish over welfare reform. Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole is planning to give a speech atttacking the president's record on welfare reform this week. But in a speech this weekend, the president tried to beat him to the punch by praising a radical reform plan championed by Wisconsin's Republican governor.