ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Marie Osmond cheered with others as a nephew completed a 250-mile, eight-day run in southern Utah to raise money and awareness for the hearing impaired.
People have scheduled all kinds of September festivities to celebrate National Preparedness Month, showing FEMA they’re ready for any eventuality. On...
Orphaned by age 4, a school dropout by the 9th grade, and a cotton-picker in rural Louisiana, Ruby Duncan moved to Las Vegas for a better life. Instead, she found her aunt living with other poor African Americans in a cardboard shack in the desert.
In the 1960s, Tom Hayden rioted at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. He founded Students for a Democratic Society, and later flew to North Vietnam to protest the Vietnam War.
When other humane organizations insisted that Michael Vick's dogs could
never be rehabilitated after their brutal treatment at Bad Newz Kennels,
Best Friends Animal Shelter in Kanab, Utah disagreed. They took on the task
of retraining a pack of mistreated and abused pit bulls, confident that
their trainers would have the methods and the patience to give them a second
chance to be adopted as pets.
Author and activist Antonia Juhasz is director of the newly established
Chevron Program at Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights
non-profit organization. She is a policy-analyst, author and activist and
she will be speaking at the College of Southern Nevada.
Historian and writer Vincent Harding joins us to talk about his years with
Martin Luther King and his writings about the slavery. He's Professor
Emeritus of Religion and Social Change at Iliff School of Theology in
Denver.
On any given night in Las Vegas, more than 13,000 people are homeless.
The non-profit organization Family Promise works to help homeless valley
families get off the street.
The Culinary Union has long prided itself on having one of the best health insurance schemes in the valley. But will the casinos continue to pay the costs? Will it continue to keep wages flat for hotel workers? How will it
look if the Congress enacts health care reform.
Summerlin doctor Richard Chudacoff has sparked a minor rebellion in the medical profession. He hopes to have a million physicians marching on the
Washington Mall October 1 to wrest health care back from the insurance
companies and lawyers.
Michael Ginsburg, Community Organizer, PLAN
Jennifer Bolton, VP Board, Gay and Lesbian Ctr of Southern NV
Janine Hansen, Citizen Lobbyist, NV Families
Richard Ziser, Chair, NV Concerned Citizens
Gary Peck, Exec Dir, NV ACLU
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Arturo Vargas, Exec Dir, Natl Assoc of Latino
Elected and Appointed Officials
Bobby Villegas, Hispanic activist
David Byerman, Chief Govt Liaison, NV for
the US Census Bureau
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Sue Markham, Dir of Homeless Services, Salvation Army Tony Sipich, Co-Founder, Homeless Helpers Beverly Mason, Dir of School Community Partnership Program, CCSD Monsingor Patrick Leary, Catholic Charities of Southern NV ..
Barbara Buckley, (D) NV Assembly Speaker
... on the concurrent town hall meetings to be held this weekend in Northern and Southern Nevada in order to get public input on the state budget.
