Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser tells All Things Considered that she's not considering cutting police funding in the city. Bowser has proposed an increase in police funding in the city's budget.
We meet Judson Phillips the convener of the Tea Party Nation. The group, which recently had its first convention in Ashville, is planning to hold its second meeting in Las Vegas in July.
Latino voters are an important voting bloc and voted heavily with the Democratic Party in 2008. Now, Republican Brian Sandoval is running for Governor.
What kind of traction does Sandoval have with Latinos? Share your thoughts and opinions for this upcoming program
Economist Raj Patel writes in his new book that we have placed too much
trust in the market value of everything. And that has had detrimental
effects on our democracy as well as our economy.
Conservatism has always won its victories from bitter defeats, argues author
Sam Tanenhaus. So will the 2008 election be such another election or have
conservatives already begun a resurgence.
The Smithsonian Institution is planning to open the National Museum of
African-American History and Culture in 2015. The still-to-be built museum
already has a director who is lecturing at UNLV on Monday night.
There's a push on to name a significant landmark after the 40th President.
Nevada currently has no such landmark but supporters hope to achieve success
before Reagan's 100th birthday.
It looks as if the Obama Administration is set to shut down Yucca Mountain.
Is this the end? Will there be any other use for the repository? And how
will the administration square the end of the waste repository with its
promise to build more nuclear power plants? We discuss those issues with
experts and industry players.
Veterans have been sold short for decades, argues Matthew LaPlante. He's the
author of a new series on the failure to give veterans the benefits they
need to re-enter American society.
There's only eight days before the tax filing deadline. Many Southern
Nevadans are facing new issues - mortgages resets and modifications,
unemployment benefits and re-training allowances.
Republican Scott Brown has defeated Democrat Martha Coakley. That makes Brown the first Republican to go to the US Senate on behalf of Massachusetts since 1972.
The health care reform legislation is still struggling to get out of the
Senate. Will it die in committee or die of compromise? Journalist Jonathan
Cohn, author of Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care
Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price, joins us to give us his take on why reform is needed.
Tucked in the health reform bill is a plan to levy a 5% tax on
elective cosmetic surgery. We talk with Las Vegas-based plastic surgeon Dr.
Goesel Anson about why she thinks it's a bad idea.
Is an oxygen bar in Las Vegas an unlikely place to launch a political
campaign? We'll find out when we talk with the director and stars of a new
independent movie that works that theme.
The health care reform legislation is still struggling to get out of the
Senate. Will it die in committee or die of compromise? Journalist Jonathan
Cohn, author of Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care
Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price, joins us to give us his take on why reform is needed.
Three Congressmen are launching a new drive to reform the nation's
immigration laws. We look at their proposals and what possible obstacles
there might be with local activists and a long-time critic of plans to grant
any legal status to undocumented workers.
The Homeland Security Secretary joins us to talk about terrorism and how
much of a threat it remains for resort destinations. We also talk about the
ways to understand "terrorism" and the policy differences between this
administration and the previous administration that created the Department
of Homeland Security.
Three Congressmen are launching a new drive to reform the nation's
immigration laws. We look at their proposals and what possible obstacles
there might be with local activists and a long-time critic of plans to grant
any legal status to undocumented workers.
