About 40 people peacefully protested outside the federal courthouse in Reno Thursday night over the death of Michael Brown, a black Missouri teenager shot by a white police officer. Many of the Reno protesters carried signs in support of the NAACP. Sen. Harry Reid said in a statement the public deserves full disclosure of the facts surrounding the shooting and events that followed.
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Jay Bartos joined Nevada Public Radio in 1993 to develop and manage the state’s first radio reading service for people unable to use standard printed material due to blindness or another disability. After the reading service was discontinued in 2011, he became the afternoon host on KNPR for ten years. Jay can now be heard on air on News 88.9 KNPR and Classical 89.7 KCNV throughout the week.