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In our special series from the latest issue of Desert Companion, we asked thought leaders to share their big ideas on how to improve Nevada's healthcare. Their answers showed that healing our ailing system will take both healthy imaginations and realistic goals

By Nicholas Barnette, Anne Davis, Clement Gelly, and Heidi Kyser

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In this issue of Desert Companion, science writer Alec Pridgeon takes a sweeping historical look at Southern Nevada’s many precious Indigenous rock writing sites, with an eye toward the threat posed to them by increased outdoor recreation, as well as vandalism. Also: Six local thought leaders in healthcare share what they’d do to improve healthcare if they were in charge; and 2023 Writer in Residence Meg Bernhard kicks off her six-part series of reported essays on people and climate change.Read the digital edition
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