Women in Science still face challenges that male counterparts do not. So says the Director of the Clayman Institute of Gender Research at Stanford University.
University of Chicago philosopher Martha Nussbaum argues in a forthcoming
book that we are in a crisis because we have ignored the liberal arts. Just
because they don't make money doesn't mean they aren't important for our
democracy.
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.
For the first time in decades, Nevada's population is shrinking. It could
affect everything from federal grants to the distribution of congressional
seats.
So what went right and what went wrong in the Las Vegas Valley during the boom decade? That's the business of the Urban Land Institute and six local planners give us their take on what was good and bad in land use during the
recent runaway real estate market. They also tell us what we can expect and what we should hope happens over the next decade.
Over the past few years, Clark County's beleaguered University Medical Center has been a font of bad news. The hospital has been awash in scandal and mismanagement, and loses tens of millions of dollars annually.
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.
Governor Jim Gibbons has an eight-point plan to reform Nevada education and to save money at the same time. His critics say it's a political stunt but so far but the plan is picking up on the ideas of education reformers.
Revenues are way down and the city is negotiating with public safety and
clerical unions for salary cuts. The unions are fighting the cuts while the
city signs on to build a new privately-financed city hall.
The bomb has been around for nearly 65 years. But it only became a factor in
defense thinking after it had ended World War Two in the Pacific with the
attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Obesity is an epidemic but the biggest problems may be in our children. They
eat too much fast food and soda: Who has time to prepare the fresh food
nutritionists recommend? And, then they spend so much time at the computer
or the Wii that they never get any exercise.
Three times lucky? That's the hope of supporters of the latest initiative to
legalize marijuana in Nevada. This time they also want to license growers
and dealers and raise a lot of tax revenue.
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.
The CityCenter project is likely to shake up the Las Vegas economy but
what's the long-term outlook. The housing industry is still in trouble and
unemployment remains at record levels.
The bigger the bubble the bigger the crash. That's the moral of a new report
from the Brookings Institution on the growth and recession in the Mountain
West.
Clark County School District Chief Walt Rulffes joins us to talk about the
host of issues facing educators and schools in Southern Nevada. We talk
about the empowerment schools program, federal aid that will require a
change in state law so that test scores can be used to assess teacher
quality, raises for classroom teachers, school construction and pending
budget cuts.
A new report from the Brookings Institution shows that people are moving to
new homes within the United States at the slowest rate since World War II.
The recent migration slowdown was the surprising, but in retrospect
inevitable, by-product of an unprecedented run-up in both housing values and
housing-related debt, say researchers.
Since the late 1990s, Mike Kelley has been managing editor of the Las Vegas
Sun. He's seen it through its last days as a separate newspaper and he was
present at the creation of the current Review-Journal insert.
Clark County School District Chief Walt Rulffes joins us to talk about the
host of issues facing educators and schools in Southern Nevada. We talk
about the empowerment schools program, federal aid that will require a
change in state law so that test scores can be used to assess teacher
quality, raises for classroom teachers, school construction and pending
budget cuts.
