MORTGAGE CRISIS: Raju Chebium reports in the Courier Post on House-passed legislation written by New Jersey Rep. Rob Andrews to help people who lost homes to foreclosure; and Lisa Friedman reports in the Los Angeles Daily News on various congressional proposals to address the mortgage mess.
IRAQ FOR REGIONALS: Lisa Mascaro explores in the Las Vegas Sun proposals for a World War II-style income surtax to pay for the war; and Leo Shane reports in Stars and Stripes on a controversy over lack of racial diversity among military flag officers.
SCHIP: Which Republicans will join the effort to override Bush's veto of the children's health insurance program? At least one in Wisconsin, Craig Gilbert reports in the Milwaukee Setinel-Journal.
SUPREME COURT: The court will hear a Louisiana sex offender death penalty case, Gerard Shields writes in the Baton Rouge Advocate.
FLOOD INSURANCE: Trish Choate reports in the Witchita Times Record News on propsed legislation to expand coverage limits.
YUCCA MOUNTAIN: The DOE is proposing to double the size of the controverisal, planned Nevada nuclear waste desository, Steve Teatrault reports in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
MINE DISASTER INVESTIGATION: The Labor Department says it can't meet a House deadline demand for documents related to the Crandall Canyon Mine accident, reports Suzanne Struglinski in the Deseret Morning News and Thomas Burr in the Salt Lake Tribune.
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