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    The History Of Las Vegas' Underground House

    Jun 27, 2013
    The underground house on 3970 Spencer Street just went on the housing market for $1.7 million.
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    Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Dec 28, 2012
    Violinist Joshua Bell and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields will be playing an all-Beethoven concert this Saturday at the Smith Center.
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    Medical Care for People with Disabilities

    Dec 27, 2012
    Not many people get to do academic research that has such a direct impact on their families. But Jenny Pharr got started looking at the problems disabled people face in securing medical care because her father is a paraplegic.
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    Funding Higher Education - the North-South Divide

    Dec 27, 2012
    State Senator John Lee, D-North Las Vegas, argues that students in Southern Nevada are subsidizing students in the North. UNLV generates 40% of tuition revenue for the system while UNR generates only 27% but both get equal state funding.
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    City Council Candidate Bob Beers

    Dec 26, 2012

    A field of nine is running to replace Steve Wolfson on the Las Vegas City Council. One of them is former State Sen. Bob Beers. His signs are up already around town and he's promising that he will continue to be a fiscal hawk at City Hall as he was in Carson City.

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    The Economic Outlook

    Nov 12, 2012

    The Center for Business and Economic Research at UNLV has delivered its Midyear Economic Outlook and the news is good - but certainly not great. The national economic has been recovering for a long time but it has been doing so very, very slowly. That has eventually begun to trickle down to the Southern Nevada economy. That slow but steady trend should continue. We talk with CBER Director Stephen Brown about the numbers and why he thinks will get better.

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    What's On Your Mind?

    Nov 06, 2012

    We've seen tens of thousands of ads and possibly heard millions of words about the 2012 election. But many policies remain undiscussed. Neither candidate, for example, has talked about climate change policy. We have to just assume that their picks for the Supreme Court would be just like the people up there now. And most fact-checking agencies have found big holes in plans for deficit reduction. What do you think has been missing from this campaign? What were the issues you wanted to hear more about from the candidates?

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    Jennifer Egan - Vegas Valley Book Festival

    Nov 05, 2012
    Jennifer Egan's latest book, A Visit from the Goon Squad brings together characters who are connected through the rock music industry or their friends. We see them through generations and get a sense of how time shapes life in a series of episodes.
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    Life Among The Elephants

    Sep 14, 2012
    Diana Edelman used to live in Las Vegas. She worked in public relations and wrote for travel Web sites.
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    The Longest Fight

    Sep 13, 2012
    In 1906, the longest boxing match ever took place in Goldfield, Nevada. It was  a racially-charged match between an African American champion and a tough white brawler known as Battling Nelson.
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    What's On Your Mind?

    Sep 11, 2012
    The Democratic National Convention is finishing and the consensus is that the Democrats did a better job than Republicans did in laying out their case for re-election. Of course, that was boosted by President Bill Clinton's weaving together of folk wisdom and policy wonkery.
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    Vegas Knockout

    Sep 07, 2012
    Bar owner and author P Moss has written a novel that starts out with a cast of characters getting ready for the fight of the year or the century ..
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    Guns for Fun

    Sep 06, 2012
    The National Rifle Association often talks about the need for gun safety and proper training to handle fire arms. Still, the most noticeable development in the merchandising of guns in recent years has been the use of assault weapons and other high-powered weapons for fun.
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    David Schmoeller Talks Film

    Sep 05, 2012
    David Schmoeller has written, produced and directed films for more than thirty years. His first feature, "Tourist Trap," has been selected as one of the 130 landmark horror films of all time in Jonathon Rigby's 2012 book, Studies in Terror, Landmarks of Horror Cinema.
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    The Republican National Convention

    Sep 05, 2012

    The Republican National Convention concluded with Mitt Romney's acceptance speech. Did it raise the campaign to the level Republicans want? And what happened with the Nevada delegation? Some party leaders say it was an embarrassment but the Ron Paul delegates seem unashamed. And are the Republicans ready to do battle?

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    Economic Indicators Predict a Romney Win

    Sep 04, 2012
    Two University of Colorado political scientists have developed a model, which they say, predicts that Mitt Romney will win over three hundred electoral college votes and the presidency. Their model would have predicted the winner of every election since 1980.
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    What's on Your Mind

    Sep 03, 2012
    This was the week that Republicans officially rolled out their presidential ticket. Did the hoopla give Romney-Ryan a boost? Does the GOP offer anything new for Nevada? And this week brought more steroid scandals.
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    The Reno Air Races Settlement

    Aug 31, 2012
    The Reno Air Race Association has come up with a settlement fund to compensate victims of the horrific accident that marred last year's air races. It will distribute $77 million to those who were injured and the heirs of those who died.
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    Will Water Shortages Make Us Vegetarians?

    Aug 30, 2012
    New scientific reports suggest that global population growth and continuing shortages of water will make us all vegetarians. That's inevitable, say the water experts, because only grain will provide enough food.
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    I Have a Dream

    Aug 29, 2012
    In just a few decades. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech has become an iconic part of American life.
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    Mitt Romney's Mormon Faith

    Aug 23, 2012
    Over the weekend, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney allowed some reporters to tag along as he attended services at the Mormon chapel near his summer home in Wolfesboro, N.H.
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    Las Vegas Sands Investigated for Money Laundering

    Aug 15, 2012
    Casinos handle lots of money and high rollers are expected to bring a lot with them when they come to as casino. The federal government is investigating whether Las Vegas Sands, which operates the Venetian, was lax in checking the sources of its high rollers' funds.
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    What's on Your Mind?

    Aug 13, 2012
    It's been a strange 24 hours in Las Vegas. Mysterious mannequins appeared hanging from billboards. Was it vandalism or a serious attempt to talk about poverty and unemployment? One analyst has crunched the numbers for Nevada's deal giving tax breaks to Apple in return for setting up shop in Reno and says it's not such a good deal. And the feud between GOP candidate Mitt Romney and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is getting personal. So what are you thinking about these days? Call and let us know!
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    Testing Nuclear Weapons in Nevada and Kazakhstan

    Aug 09, 2012
    The National Atomic Testing Museum has just completed an exchange between participants and historians who have studied the testing of nuclear weapons on both sides of the Cold War. Nevada was the United States' test site and Kazakhstan was the test site for the Soviet Union.
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    Chris Cilizza: The Gospel According to the Fix

    Aug 08, 2012
    Washington Post political reporter and blogger Chris Cilizza has just published The Gospel According to the Fix. The book promises to guide readers through the 'unholy world' of politics. Already Cilizza is predicting that the next Congress will be even more divided than this one. We ask Cilizza what he's looking for in this year's election and what role he thinks Nevada will play.
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