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The mostly white country and folk music industries remain frustratingly difficult for Black musicians to enter. During one of Nashville's biggest events, one group envisioned a new pathway in.

Fifty year-old Glenn Hughes, best known as the Biker character in the 70s music group The Village People, died this past week of lung cancer. We have this appreciation. (Listener participation encouraged)

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Rashawn Ray about the nuances and problems associated with citizen's arrest laws.

Noah Adams talks with Ben Miller about the closing of Fresh Kills, the world's largest landfill and the largest manmade object on earth. Fresh Kills opened in 1948 and received its last barge of New York City garbage this week. The garbage mounds will be covered with dirt and seeded with vegetation, but it will take decades for the waste to decompose. Miller is the author of Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York -- the Last 200 Years.

Noah Adams speaks with Wall Street Journal sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about golf. Specifically, Stefan notes that last weekend, Annika Sorenstrom's record setting tournament round of 59 was a bit overshadowed by a tournament victory by Tiger Woods, who hadn't won a tournament since last year. The Ladies PGA Tour gets less attention than the men's but the quality of play is just as good. Tiger Woods' 'slump' is hardly that. And many pros on the men's tour are using a new golf ball which they believe improves their play.

Talk of tax cuts continues to dominate both chambers of Congress. The tax writing committee of the House this week approved a second phase of President Bush's proposed $1.6 trillion package of tax cuts, this one eliminating the so-called marriage penalty and increasing the child tax credit. But on the Senate side, talk turned to another concept -- the granting of a swift tax rebate that might pump new money into the consumer economy relatively quickly. No sooner did one Republican mention the idea than several leading Democrats adopted it. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on a dispute between aerospace and defense contractor Raytheon and the Federal Aviation Administration. Raytheon says it should have been permitted to bid for a chance to upgrade the air traffic control system. The FAA had awarded that contract to Lockheed Martin without putting it out for bid.

Bob Garfield, co-host of NPR's On the Media reports on permission specialists -- the people who get the suspects in the "cops" type shows to sign on the dotted line to allow their stories and images to be used in these "reality shows." There are lots of reasons why few suspects hesitate to sign -- some hope it will help their case, some just want that 20 seconds of fame before being put away for 20 years, and some, they say, are just stupid.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on President Bush trip to Portland, Maine to sell his tax cut.

Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Julin reports on the experiences of a group of boxers from Iceland who are training and fighting in Duluth this week. Amateur boxing is outlawed in Iceland, but these Rocky wannabe's won't be discouraged.