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For the past 350 years, the people of New England have held town meetings as a forum to thrash out local issues and vote on them. Some consider these meetings the oldest and purest form of democracy in the United States. But Leda Hartman reports that in New Hampshire, this venerable institution may come to an end if the state legislature passes a law that allows local issues to be resolved by secret ballot.

Daniel talks to Goeran Carstedt, President of Ikea North America about his company's take on American lifestyles. According to an Ikea report Americans center all their furnishings around the television...which is getting bigger and bigger. By contrast in Ikea's homebase Sweden, people tend to centre their lifestyles around a dining room sets..they talk more and watch T.V. less.

CIO - Jacki talks to Michael Kazin - a labor historian at The American University about the AFL-CIO conference that just concluded in Bal Harbour, Florida. At that meeting AFL-CIO leader of 16 years Lane Kirkland was challenged and unionists are hinting at a possible replacement. Kazin discusses the state of the Labor movement and the future of the AFL-CIO.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MIKE VEECK (VECK), OWNER OF THE ST. PAUL SAINTS MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM, ABOUT THE EFFECT THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STRIKE IS HAVING ON MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. AND SYNDICATED CARTOONIST JEFF McNELLY READS FROM HIS RECENT WORK, A TAKE-OFF OF "CASEY AT THE BAT."

Daniel talks with NPR's Maria Hinojosa, who covered the economic and refugee crises in Cuba six months ago and returned to the island recently to find significant changes in both Cuba's economy and mood. State-sanctioned farmers' markets are flourishing, food is plentiful and Cubans appear upbeat, Hinojosa says. But with the Castro dictatorship still in power, these changes have no legal protection.

Jacki talks to Margerie Rosen about the popualar Lady's Home Journal column "Can this marriage be saved" and her new book.

SIMON/TEAMSTERS-BASEBALL: THE TEAMSTERS, WHO REPRESENT DRIVERS FOR MANY OF THE U.S. BEER DISTRIBUTORS THAT DELIVER PRODUCTS TO 23 OF THE 26 MAJOR LEAGUE STADIUMS IN THE UNITED STATES, HAVE DECIDED NOT TO CROSS ANY PICKET LINES ORGANIZED BY STRIKING BASEBALL PLAYERS. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH TEAMSTERS UNION PRESIDENT RON CAREY.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LISTENER MAIL.

NPR'S TREVOR ROWE REPORTS FROM NEW YORK THAT MANY VIEW THE U.N. MISSION IN SOMALIA AS A FAILURE AND THAT IT WILL HAVE A LASTING EFFECT ON FUTURE RESPONSES TO HUMANITARIAN AND POLITICAL CRISES.

SCOTT SIMON VISITS CLEVELAND, OHIO, WHERE FOR YEARS COMEDIANS AND THEIR ILK HAVE DELIGHTED IN MAKING FUN OF THE RUSTBELT CITY. BUT RECENTLY THE CITY HAS UNDERGONE A FACELIFT. SCOTT SIMON TALKS TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK THERE TO FIND OUT WHAT TODAY'S CLEVELAND IS ALL ABOUT.