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Airs Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The four candidates for San Diego City Council District 1 are making that election one of the most competitive this year.

Flip through any fashion magazine and you may wonder if there’s a nationwide wardrobe malfunction going on -- no neckline seems too low, no hemline too high. So what do you do if your religion requires a more modest dress code?

Broken-down buses and costly student fares were just some of the concerns raised by City Heights residents at a May 12 forum hosted by Mid-City CAN.

When you look at your ballot on June 5, the description of Proposition 28 seems simple enough. But opponents claim the language for the state ballot measure to change term limits is misleading.

Mexico is in the midst of a huge project to reform its criminal justice system. A key piece of the reform is the adoption of a new kind of trial process where lawyers argue their cases publicly in the courtroom. This means lots and lots of training.

While many black pastors condemn homosexuality from the pulpit, the choir lofts behind them are often filled with gay singers and musicians. The fact that gays and lesbians often hold leadership position in the church is the worst kept secret in black America.

After helping the Boston Red Sox win the World Series, pitcher Curt Schilling could do no wrong. Then news broke that his video game company had chewed through a $75 million state loan that it's struggling to pay off. Now, Rhode Island officials are moving to protect taxpayers from what appears to have been a very bad investment.

Polls show an overwhelming majority of Latino voters believe politics should be more about economic issues, like jobs, than moral ones, like gay marriage or abortion.

In The Right-Hand Shore, Christopher Tilghman returns to the racially charged landscape and the crumbling plantations of his book Mason's Retreat. Fresh Air critic Maureen Corrigan calls the prequel "the real deal."