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Journalist Howard Fischer has been covering Arizona state government since 1982. He joins Fresh Air to discuss Arizona's controversial immigration law and other recent bills passed in the state, including one that allows Arizona's citizens to carry concealed weapons without a permit.

The new state law requiring police to check the citizenship or residency status of suspected illegal immigrants has triggered lawsuits, protests and boycotts around the country. Nevertheless, polls show most Americans back it. NPR spoke with two supporters of the law for perspective on its potential benefits and intended effects.

Anger flares over Arizona's new immigration law and its implications for racial profiling. Will this approach spread to other states? San Diego reacts for and against police empowerment in the illegal immigration debate.

The woman in charge of putting diabetes research into practice for the Centers for Disease Control, spoke of the "global" epidemic of diabetes during a San Diego symposium yesterday.

Airs Monday, October 4, 2010 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a controversial bill Friday that makes it a crime for illegal immigrants to be in the state. The question now is whether police can enforce the new law without violating civil liberties.

The deadly conflict in Darfur has deep roots in a vast, arid and long-neglected region in Sudan's west, where battles over water and grazing rights stretch back generations. Scarce resources exacerbate ethnic tensions between black African tribes and Arab-speaking pastoralists and fuel the fighting.

Tension is soaring in Russia's Caucasus Mountains. Gunmen in the southern region of Ingushetia are killing ethnic Russians, prompting the military to send in thousands of troops. Locals say they don't know who's behind the killings, but, they say, the authorities' violent crackdown is making matters far worse.

People elected to the post of San Diego County Sheriff often remain in office a very long time. So, this countywide election takes on a special importance. We'll discuss candidates Bill Gore, Jim Duffy and Jay LeSuer.

San Diego County has a sheriff named Bill Gore, but sheriff is an elected office. The county sheriff is the highest ranking law enforcement officer in San Diego, and the sheriff's primary election is coming up in June.