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San Diegans will see signature gatherers on the streets this weekend, as a campaign begins to open city services up to managed competition. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

Lawyers for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui question a psychologist about the confessed terrorist's mental state. Moussaoui's defense team is trying to repair damage done by their client last week, when he told the jury weighing the death penalty that he would attack America if he could.

Far away on the other side of the world, some vacationing San Diegans spent a recent morning discussing ways to make our city even more appealing. We wondered how to bring San Diego more of the sense of heart and soul that we find in Balboa Park.

Authorities have unearthed a massive and sophisticated drug smuggling tunnel along the U.S. Mexico border. KPBS reporter Amy Isackson has more.

The FBI says it has video footage of Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) accepting $100,000 from an FBI informant. Jefferson, who has not been charged with anything, insists that he has committed no crime. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

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Host John Ydstie speaks with Khaled al-Dakheel, a political sociologist at King Saud University in Riyadh about Arab reaction to President Bush's new Iraq plan, and their confidence in the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki.

Speaking to the jury who will decide whether to apply the death penalty in his case, Zacarias Moussaoui said, "I wish there would be more pain" for Americans, whom he blames for the suffering of Muslims. The confessed al-Qaida conspirator said he should receive life in prison.

A House vote is expected Friday on a bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate lower prices for the Medicare prescription drug program. President Bush opposes the measure.

The American Civil Liberties Union says Fallbrook High School officials violated a student's civil rights when they disciplined her for wearing an American flag in her back pocket. The ACLU will sue i