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The outcry from the late January deaths of 15 young people in Juarez has led President Felipe Calderon to pledge to pump millions of dollars into civic programs in what's become one of the deadliest cities in the world.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders joins us to talk about his revised budget proposal, and the recent deal to reform the retiree health care system. Sanders also discusses the push to expand the convention center, and efforts to build a new stadium for the Chargers.

Three Beijing University students were among the leaders of the 1989 pro-democracy movement that shook China to its core. Two decades since gunfire snuffed out their dreams, the exiled leaders have taken different paths — through disillusionment, religion and renewed activism.

The decision to fire Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod — an action that has now been rescinded — is clearly part of a larger debate about discrimination and race in the public sphere. It's also evidence that hopes Barack Obama would lead the country into a "post-racial" future have thus far gone unrealized.

Some positive corporate earnings reports and upbeat retail sales figures have bolstered Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's assessment that the economy is on the road to recovery. But many analysts aren't ready to say the economy is healthy

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, expected to testify at back-to-back Senate hearings, vowed to give the federal agency that regulates oil drilling "more tools, more resources, more independence and greater authority" in the wake of the massive Gulf of Mexico spill.

Airs Friday, March 26, 2010 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

The Labor Department said employers cut 36,000 jobs in February, well below analysts' expectations of 50,000. The department said the recent severe snowstorms that hammered the East Coast may have affected job losses, but it wouldn't quantify the impact.

In his first official act after the election, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has left on a two-day trade mission to Mexico. The Governor hopes to promote California businesses south of the border and

Prosecutors and sheriff's investigators still are deciding what charges could be filed against the Colorado parents suspected of falsely claiming that their 6-year-old son was inside a runaway helium balloon last week.