Part 1:Feature

 As Senator Obama is expected to win in Oregon, Senator Hillary Clinton is expected to win today's primary contest in Kentucky.  In neighboring West Virginia last week, Senator Obama received only 27 percent of the vote.  Meanwhile, media reports of verbal and property damaging racial attacks on Barack Obama's Presidential campaign are on the rise. One US Representative from Kentucky has seen it first hand. Matt Laslo reports from Washington.

Part 2: Interview

Gloria Garza stands where border fence was to run through her backyard in Granjeno, Texas (Photo: Shannon Young)

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Part 1 FEATURE
As tomorrow is Oregon and Kentucky's primary, in Oregon, it's more like the voters' deadline and the day the votes are counted. Oregon is the only state in the country that completely votes by mail.  Ballots and voter's pamphlets are sent out about 2 and a half weeks before election day, and voters have the choice of buying a stamp or depositing their ballot in one of hundreds of drop-boxes scattered around the state. 
As Jes Burns reports from Oregon, vote by mail has contributed to high voter turn-outs and a system that goes out of its way to make sure every ballot is counted correctly.

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The Supreme Court upheld a law today that some civil libertarians say is a clampdown on free speech. The high court ruled that prosecutors can go after people that posses, promote or pander child pornography. But critics say under certain interpretations of the ruling, viewing films like Titanic or Traffic could be a criminal offense. The court also ruled that two states can move forward with the execution of two men. FSRN correspondent Matt Laslo reports from Washington.

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Plans to build 700 miles of fencing along the southern border have generated a flood of controversy along the banks of the Rio Grande River. The river serves as the international boundary between a string of bi-national metropolitan areas and smaller sister towns. Unlike other areas in the border region, the majority of land along the Texas/Mexico dividing line is held in private hands – and dozens of regional landowners are now defendants in federal condemnation suits for refusing the government's offer of $100 for unlimited access to their property to construct an 18 foot high barrier. As FSRN reported on Friday, elected officials from the Texas border and regional business leaders have filed their own lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security. Shannon Young traveled to the Texas/Mexico border to bring us some of the voices of those involved in a different kind of battle at the border.

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