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NPR's Ketzel Levine visits the Bonfante Gardens Theme Park in Gilroy, California. Owner Michael Bonfante opened the 75-acre parcel as a non-profit, educational project to teach children about plants.

Commentator Russell Roberts says it's time for politicians to provide the straight story on Social Security.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's proposal for eliminating 15 billion dollars in wasteful spending at the Pentagon.

NPR is following the ceremony and services commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York City.

Caitlyn Kim of member station KQED reports on Napa Valley's struggle to find beds for the four-thousand migrant workers who harvest the region's half-billion dollar wine grape crop.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on a debate over drug policy reform, featuring Republican governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson, and DEA Chief Asa Hutchinson.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on how the democrats are planning to fill the void left by their minority whip, David Bonior of Michigan. Bonior has decided to run for governor in his home state.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Afghanistan on rumors that Ahmad Shah Masood is dead.

More than 100,000 homes and businesses remain without power in Louisiana more than two weeks after Hurricane Ida. It's been tough for people trying to get by in the hot and humid weather.

The current divisions in the Democratic Party and its ideological shift can be explained, in part, by tracking how the word "progressive" became the chosen label for so many on the left.