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NPR's Peter Overby takes a look at vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman's Senate financial support from insurance and drug companies.

Back to School means the start of High School Football, but the rules are different since the Supreme Court stated that schools can no longer support pre-game prayer. In Santa Fe, Texas, scene of last year's student-led prayers, Adam Hochberg reports how some fans are challenging the Court's opinion.

Past racial and ethnic tensions are heating up the congressional campaign in New York's 17th District. Congressman Eliot Engel who is Jewish, is seeking a seventh term challenged by State Senator Larry Seabrook, an African-American. Andrea Bernstein reports from member station WNYC.

Joanne Silberner reports on the relationship between Wall Street and the health care market. As managed care companies become better investments, more and more decisions about the way people have access to their medical care are based upon economic concerns.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about the final weeks in this year's presidential election.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Nikki Kinghorn from Oakland, California. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station KQED in San Francisco.)

Frank talks with Jennifer Ludden about the situation in the Middle East, as Israli and Palestinian leaders prepare to meet with President Clinton next week.

In 1897, the U.S. Army launched an experiment to test if the safety bicycle, then a revolutionary vehicle, could be used to transport troops instead of the horse. The 25th Infantry, composed of 20 African American soldiers, took the 2,000-mile ride from Missoula, Montana to St. Louis, Missouri. Their journey is documented on a new film called The Bicycle Corps: America's Black Army on Wheels, produced by Montana Public Television. It airs on public television stations this week. Frank talks to Gus Chambers, the film's writer and producer.

Labor day is the traditional start of the fall campaign. Political watchers believe that 90% of the electorate have already made up their minds on their presidential selection. Host Steve Inskeep talks with Dan Gonyea on how both Bush and Gore are targeting the remaining 10%.

Host Steve Inskeep talks to columnist Doug Grow of the Minneapolis Star Tribune about a dispute over kosher dill pickles at the Minnesota State Fair.