Mexican President Felipe Calderon is in Ciudad Juarez this morning, where three people affiliated with the U.S. consulate were killed over the weekend. The trip comes, not in response to this weekend's killings, but following the horrific massacre of at least 11 high school students at a party in Juarez in late January. Calderon is expected to announce an initiative to make city residents safer.

For our series, "The Value," Takeaway correspondent Farai Chideya traveled to the Bay Area for a lesson on how to live on the  cheap in one of the country's most costly neighborhoods. A family in Saulsalito, California manages to cut costs by living on their boat. By avoiding expenses like the cost of a car and gas, the family is able to sail around the world and return home with adventurous stories to tell.

A California man claims that while driving on a freeway near San Diego, his Toyota Prius took him for a 94 mph joy ride.  Although nobody was injured, the incident immediately prompted a new investigation into the safety of the vehicle. Louise Story, Wall Street and finance reporter for The New York Times, estimates what this latest PR blow will cost the embattled Japanese automaker.

Sen. Chris Dodd introduced a bill yesterday to tighten regulations on financial institutions. The bill gives the government new authority to police banks and prevent them from becoming too big to fail. Although the bill speaks to widespread anger among Americans about the bank bailout, it still lacks bipartisan support.

According to Newsweek, recent high school and college graduates aren’t asking their parents for vocational and financial advice. Instead, they’re turning to their depression-era grandparents. After all, their grandparents survived a time when the American unemployment rate was 25 percent, while their parents came of age well after that devastating time and well before the recession of today.

Michael Furlong, a Defense Department official, set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants. Mark Mazetti, who broke The New York Times, said Furlong used around 20 million dollars to hire private contractors to do intelligence gathering around Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This is a spy novelist's dream. So we turned to one. Frederick Forsyth  is the author of such acclaimed books as, "The Day of the Jackal," "The Odessa File," "and "The Dogs of War."

Despite the Internet's genesis here in the U.S., Americans' per capita access to broadband has lagged. In 2001, the U.S. ranked fourth in the world for citizens' access online, but dropped to 15th in 2009, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The Federal Communication Commission will today unveil its first plan for national broadband access. Goal number one: to bring super-fast Internet access to the 100 million homes that don't currently have access to broadband — and make that access cheaper for everyone along the way.

• SPORTS TAKEOUT: Sports contributor, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, talks about Coolidge High School's new head coach for their boy's varsity football team, Natalie Randolph. She is believed to be the only female in the U.S. coaching high school football.
• RESPONSES TAKEOUT: We hear your responses to recent stories from Haiti to breast-feeding.

House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) joins us with the very latest on the contentious health care reform bill that will likely see a vote in Congress later this week.

We remember photographer Charles Moore, who made his name taking iconic Civil Rights photographs down south during the 1960's. He died at the age of 79, Thursday. Hank Klibanoff, who is the author of the book, "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation," helps us remember the life and work of this great photojournalist.

This week, Austin, Texas becomes the epicenter of the world's most innovative music culture as new and established bands descend on South By Southwest to perform. With only five nights and almost 2,000 acts, deciding who to hear seems like a daunting task.

Ten projects have reportedly been sold to Sony by the Michael Jackson estate. The lucrative deal is valued at somewhere between $200 million and $250 million dollars. This may mean the release of previously unheard music from the king of pop, but it may also mean we'll see video games and other new uses for Jackson and his music.

A treasure trove of information for the Congressional junkie is now available on CSPAN's website. Takeaway Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich, has already spent some time looking through the archives and brings us highlights from the most mundane to the most spectacular, and one very special historical moment close to home.