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NPR's Scott Simon muses on some of the costumes he'd like to see this second pandemic Halloween.

In 2017, one medical marijuana license was set aside specifically for a Black farmer and has not yet been given out. This month, the Florida Department of Health put out an emergency rule specifying how Black farmers can apply for that license. Florida Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried wants the state to revisit its rule.

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants lawmakers to focus on efforts to prevent schools, businesses and governmental entities from imposing vaccination mandates and other pandemic restrictions.

Florida’s Healthy Start program celebrated 30 years today and several milestones including a drop in infant mortality.

Might the Florida Legislature in its special session give Governor Ron DeSantis the power to remove and replace them for defying a state ban on mandates? WMFE got some perspective on that issue from Scott Stephens, a professor of constitutional law at Stetson University.

In May 2021, preliminary construction began on Alico Road in Fort Myers. It is unknown when the construction will be completed, but the ultimate goal is to connect SR82 to Alico Road, creating a direct path from Lehigh Acres to Fort Myers. That path will cut through endangered Florida Panther territory.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on new revelations about earth's beginnings, by scientists in Antarctica.

1.2 billion of the world's six billion people live on less than a dollar a day, according to the World Bank's annual report on global development, released today. Sub-Saharan Africa is suffering the world's most dire poverty, while conditions in East Asian and Pacific nations are improving. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from South Africa on the new challenges facing AIDS activists there, now that pharmaceutical companies have agreed to allow the sale of cheaper AIDS medications.

Civil rights pioneer Leon Sullivan died last week at the age of 78. The American Baptist minister devised the so-called Sullivan Principles, which helped bring down the apartheid regime in South Africa.

A report from Baltimore's annual Kinetic Sculpture Race, in which Lisa helped pedal a 14-and-a-half-foot pink poodle around the Inner Harbor. All vehicles in the race have to be human-powered, and they have to go on land and in water. The race provides hundreds of contestants and spectators an opportunity for ingenuity and zaniness.

Lisa talks with longtime comedian George Carlin about his brainy, acerbic style, and his latest book Napalm and Silly Putty. (Hyperion Books: ISBN: 0786864133)

Lisa talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein about the latest efforts by Egyptians and Jordanians to forge a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians.

Japanese authorities are trying to determine the identity of a man who tried to sneak into the country on a fake passport. It is thought that he might be Kim Jong Nam, the 29- year-old son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Linda Wertheimer speaks with Mark Magnier, Tokyo bureau chief of the L.A. Times.

Noah Adams and Linda Wertheimer read from some of this week's listener letters. (3:45) Send letters to Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC, 20001. Or send e-mail to atc@npr.org.

From member station WNYC in New York, Annie Cheney has the story of the Hudson Hotel. Once a haven for low income New Yorkers, the Hudson has gone way upscale. The long term tenants are staying on too, but the hotel is taking pains to make sure the two classes of tenants never meet.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on the future of a Clinton administration regulation that limits road-building and subsequent logging in 58 million acres of National Forest land. Today, the Bush administration is expected to announce that it intends to modify the so-called "roadless rule" to allow state and local officials to challenge the restrictions on a case-by-case basis.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid gave a vague and perfunctory response to the Indonesian parliament's vote on Monday to censure him. The censure clears the way for possible impeachment on corruption charges. Wahid's aloof response appears to have strengthened opposition to his continued rule.

The Simon Weisenthal Center has approached the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to ask that 200 names of famous Jews be taken off a list of people baptized into the Mormon faith after their death. In 1995, the church agreed to stop the posthumous baptism of Jews who died in the Holocaust. But the family of Anne Frank, and others have remained on the rolls -- though they never subscribed to Mormonism during their lives. Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Howard Berkes who is in Salt Lake City.

The California Supreme Court has ruled that a T-shirt artist must pay licensing fees for using the images of the Three Stooges. Robert Siegel talks with Robert N. Benjamin, the attorney for the plaintiff in the case, Comedy III Productions. (3:00) For information on licensing fees, go to www.threestooges.com.

When disparaging remarks about Jews by Charlie Ward of the New York Knicks were published in a magazine, they generated a barrage of criticism and media commentary. Ward is just the latest athlete to find himself in an unwelcome spotlight for controversial comments unrelated to sports. Are these athlete eruptions worth all the attention, or are they better simply ignored? NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

Number 21 on the Billboard top 100 this week: India Arie, with her first CD, Acoustic Soul. She has drawn impressive comparisons to Roberta Flack, Tracy Chapman and Bill Withers. Reviewer Sarah Bardeen says that Arie deserves the success. India Arie's Acoustic Soul is on Motown Records.

Neuroscientists in California have been able to take cells from human brains hours after death and coax some of the cells to continue dividing in the laboratory. As NPR's Joe Palca reports, for now, the result is of limited practical value, but it could pave the way for generating nerve tissue to treat human disease.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports on today's visit to Washington, D.C., by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Peres will meet with President Bush to discuss a ceasefire initiative in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The proposal was the genesis of talks with Egypt and Jordan who are looking to help end the nearly eight months of violence in Israel.

NPR's Kate Seelye reports from Damascus on fears of widening conflict in the Middle East. Tensions are growing between Israel and Syria over that country's support for Lebanon-based Hezbollah guerrillas.