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    My Rock Between Two Worlds

    Jan 04, 2021

    I find my perfect solitude where the city meets the desert

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    HUD Secretary Ben Carson speaks during a news conference after touring a housing development in Baltimore.
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    HUD Secretary Ben Carson Compares Baltimore To A Cancer Patient

    Jul 31, 2019
    His trip to Baltimore comes as the city and its long-time Rep. Elijah Cummings D-Md., have been the targets of a series of disparaging tweets by President Trump.
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    Code Switch
    The city's Highlandtown neighborhood has become an immigrant hub in recent years.
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    Facing A Population Decline, Baltimore Set Up A Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

    May 20, 2017
    Officials in many cities have said protecting immigrants from deportation is a moral imperative. In cities with dwindling tax bases, like Baltimore, it's also a financial one.
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    Code Switch
    Interdisciplinary artist and TED Fellow, Damon Davis.
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    At TED This Week, Two Speakers Got To The Root Of Things

    Apr 28, 2017
    At the TED Conference in Vancouver this week, two Fellows, Devita Davison and Damon Davis talked about putting ideas to work to invigorate marginalized communities from within.
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    Around the Nation
    Construction continues on Orleans Landing, a housing development along the Detroit riverfront. A year after its exit from bankruptcy, new development is booming downtown.
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    Post-Bankruptcy, A Booming Detroit Is Still Fragile

    Dec 12, 2015
    It's been one year since the city of Detroit exited the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. New development is erupting downtown, but the city is still walking a financial tightrope.
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    Chris Cheng is a customer at High Bridge Arms, San Francisco's last gun store.
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    San Francisco's Last Gun Shop Calls It Quits

    Oct 27, 2015
    High Bridge Arms is shutting down at the end of the month. Gun enthusiasts say proposed city firearms regulations are forcing the store to close, but advocates of the new measures say that's not true.
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    All about the Basin

    Jul 27, 2015

    Whoops and grumbles aside, we can all agree our new national monument is pure Nevada.

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    Conflict Erupts Over City Soccer Fields

    Oct 24, 2013

    Competition is supposed to unfold on the city's soccer fields. But for months, a controversy has been brewing about how those fields are scheduled and allocated

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    Zoning Businesses near the Strip

    Jun 22, 2012
    No one quite planned it this way but in the neighborhood of Sahara Avenue and Paradise Road there are businesses that run all night, or would like to, but there are residential neighborhoods where people would like to sleep all night. So how can the city council balance those interests? Do neighbors need to find a quieter area or should businesses be happy to accommodate their neighbors.
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    The Ward 6 Recall Election

    Apr 11, 2012

    Recall elections are difficult to organize and the organizers of this recall have had a false start but they finally got the signatures and so Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Ross will have to be re-elected to serve out the remainder of his term. He's got some big names backing him and he denounces the recall as a vengeful effort funded by disgruntled car dealer Joe Scala. But planning commissioner Byron Goynes has thrown his hat into the ring. They both join us in the studio to make their case for the Ward 6 Councilman's seat.

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    Stone Free

    Feb 03, 2006
    Chris Giunchigliani, Assemblywoman Stacy Jennings, Nevada Ethics Commission Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach Craig Walton, Center for Public Ethics
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    Ward 6

    Dec 15, 2005
    ...on county politics.
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    Shady Acres

    Dec 09, 2005
    Questionable local land deals have Jeff Burbank wondering why we need out-of-state lawyers to investigate if local government is watching out for the public.
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    Lend Me Your Thumbs

    Nov 16, 2005
    Talk about punishing grafitti vandals has Dave Ross wondering which is the more valued in Las Vegas: property or people?
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    61 Rambler

    Nov 16, 2005
    Marty Burger, President, Related Las Vegas ...on Las Ramblas, the 61 Acres, Baseball and "Related" Matters
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    Ward 4

    Nov 11, 2005
    Larry Brown, LV City Councilman for Ward 4
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    Mayor Goodman

    Oct 19, 2005
    Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas ...visits for a wide-ranging review of his colorful life.
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