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March 15, 2010 KNPR's State of Nevada
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St. Patrick's Celebration: Grab a lassie and kick up your heels! Famed Irish music duo Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill join us for some festive fiddling in honor of St. Patrick's Day. Get ready to break out a jig! More here.
Over 187,000 Nevadans are out of work, and the unemployment lines keep getting longer. Some of us have been out of work for months. Some of us are looking at going back to school. Some of us are wrestling with whether or not to leave Nevada to find work elsewhere. On this program, we hear the stories of unemployed people from all walks of life.

Whether you are out of work yourself, or you know someone who is unemployed, we'd like to know how unemployment has affected your life, your friends, your community.

When did you lose your job?
What's your job-search strategy?
How are you and your family staying afloat?
If you're still fortunate to have a job -- what are you doing to help those individuals around you?

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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.
For the last couple of months we've been assessing the direction and structure of KNPR's State of Nevada. This six year old public affairs project represents a major commitment of resources at Nevada Public Radio, so we're taking a few weeks to continue this review process and plan for the future. During this review KNPR's State of Nevada will be a one-hour program.
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March 13, 2010
The story of women in the ultimate "Man's World" - working first in the labs and then the Shuttle crew cabins of NASA. Told in the first person, these stories explore the experiences of NASA's first woman engineers and scientists and its first astronauts. It also tells the fascinating story of a group of women pilots who, in the early 1960s, were led to believe that they would be America's first women astronauts and were given the exact same physical tests as the Mercury astronauts. The program is narrated by Eileen Collins, the first woman commander of a Space Shuttle.
March 12, 2010
Food writers Max Jacobson and John Curtas join us again. They bring us a preview of "Vegas Uncork'd" and find out what it's like keeping an eye on the seventeen (!) restaurants at Aria. Then they go head-to-head in another round of "Eat It or Beat It."

But first, Mayor Oscar Goodman wants to fire every city employee and then rehire them for a shorter work week.

That's just one idea the mayor has floated as a solution the city's $70,000,000 budget deficit if the city's unions dont agree to wage concessions.

And the biannual Neon Reverb Music Festival is taking place this week around downtown Las Vegas. We talk with Las Vegas City Life Arts and Entertainment Editor, Mike Prevatt about the can't miss performances this weekend and the budding indie music scene in Las Vegas.

The Mayor and City Manager Betsy Fretwell will join us to take your phone calls and emails about the city's plan that could see up 146 people lose their jobs.
March 11, 2010
He's flown F-16s and other fighter jets. He's run an air force base, a test range and a solar facility. And it turns out he's a 5-time champion on Jeopardy. The commander of Nellis Air Force Base joins us for a look back at his time in Las Vegas and the Air Force's role in the current war.

Then, dead men tell no tales... but their bodies do. Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy steps into our studios to talk about corpses, and how he solves the mysteries of how they died. Tune in, as we find out what goes on in the morgue.

And, it's a real conspiracy. But the main players in the medical mafia case have all pleaded guilty to lesser charges to avoid the conspiracy charges. But who are these men and how did they come to be trying to rig the medical malpractice business in Southern Nevada?
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