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Who says moviemakers are out of ideas? Hollywood studios may not always score, but for at least the third year in a row, foreign directors, indie auteurs and documentarians have served up enough eye-opening films that NPR's critic had trouble narrowing his best-of list to anything near a Top 10.

The UT's Watchdog team reports that the former head of the San Diego YMCA had a pay package worth nearly $1 million -- twice as much as YMCA leaders in Los Angeles and Chicago. The newspaper also investigated rich medical benefits for board members at local water agencies. We discuss the growing anger over executive compensation.

House Democrats and Republicans have been vocal in their opposition to President Obama's tax cut deal. Nonetheless, members from both sides of the aisle predict the measure will win approval. But House leaders may allow an amendment to roll back estate tax provisions that ire many Democrats.

Why is a disease that was nearly extinct 30 years ago, finding its way back not just in this state, but in other parts of the country as well? A four-month investigation by KPBS and the Watchdog Institute, a nonprofit investigative center based at San Diego State University, has found that many people who have come down with whooping cough have been immunized. We'll hear the details of the investigation.

The tax package negotiated by President Obama and Republican congressional leaders survived a key test Monday, when the Senate voted overwhelmingly to end debate and move the bill to final consideration -- probably later this week.

The 57-40 test vote fell three votes short of the 60 needed to advance and ends months of political wrangling on the bill. Congressional action on the repeal provision appears unlikely in the near future. The 1993 law bans gay troops from publicly acknowledging their sexual orientation.

House Democrats defied President Obama on Thursday, shooting down a deal between the White House and Republicans lawmakers to renew the Bush-era tax cuts in exchange for an extension of unemployment benefits.

The White House is faced with rebellion in the president's party against his agreement with Republicans on which tax cuts to extend. Some Democrats say they'll vote for the deal but they're not happy about it. Others will try to get deals of their own added to sweeten the package.

We want everything and we want it fast. And overnight. And yesterday. Many people see impatience as a national problem. But it's as American as microwave apple pie. And it just might be a virtue.

Sens. Kent Conrad and Judd Gregg are the first two elected officials to endorse the new cost-slashing proposal submitted by the co-chairmen of President Obama's debt commission. A final vote is expected Friday.