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February 09, 2010 KNPR's State of Nevada
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KNPR's State of Nevada
Gov. Gibbons has laid out his ideas on how to balance the state budget, but $900 million is a big hole to fix. We talk with Speaker Barbara Buckley and other Nevada legislators who have the really hard job of actually rewriting the budget. Will it be just more cuts or will there be some tax increases as well?

And MGM Mirage announced yesterday that it is selling out of Atlantic City. We find out why the company's going all in on Macau. More...
KNPR's State of Nevada is the essential public affairs broadcast to understand what's happening here. Newsmakers and experts give context to local issues; discussion and profile interviews explore the unique character - and characters - of our region. KNPR's State of Nevada is a daily conversation about this place we call home. Broadcast weekdays at 9 a.m., encore at 8 p.m.
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February 08, 2010
How do you tell the story of African-Americans? Lonnie Bunch of the Smithsonian Institution is working on that question and we ask him how he does it.

But first, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons plans to slash as much as $900 million from the state budget. It's the latest round of cuts as the state's revenue nosedives. We ask leaders of key interest groups - business, unions and schools and colleges - where they think the ax should fall.
February 05, 2010
We meet the stars of the Utah Shakespearean Festival's production of "The Taming of the Shrew." It's playing this weekend at the Cheyenne campus of the College of Southern Nevada.

And rural Nevadans say that Las Vegas wants to steal their water and make those northern counties dust bowls. The water authorities, they charge, have rigged the studies and concealed embarrassing scientific tests, but Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager hits back, arguing that White Pine officials have sabotaged any chance for an intelligent scientific debate.

Then can the new man work miracles? Or at least, can he get a winning football program? We ask the new UNLV athletic director about that.
February 04, 2010
The rate of teen pregnancy is again on the rise. After the great debate about whether abstinence or contraceptive education was more successful, it appears that neither is very effective. We talk with a health counselor and the principal of the Clark County School that allows pregnant students to graduate. We also meet a student who is pregnant and a teen who is running a one-woman campaign to raise awareness about the problem among her peers.
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