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Regional Planning Coalition

Dec 07, 2009
Critics often say that Southern Nevada has grown so fast that there's no planning. Not so, says Dr.
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NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard

Dec 07, 2009
Most people think they could improve the newspaper they read. That's probably true for the news on the radio as well.
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Religious Roundtable

Dec 04, 2009
A priest, a rabbi and an imam ..
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Empowerment Schools

Dec 04, 2009
In 2007, Gov. Jim Gibbons boldly predicted that "empowerment schools" would end the perpetually low ranking of Nevada schools.
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Sick

Dec 03, 2009
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.
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Westside Schools

Dec 02, 2009
Students in historically black West Las Vegas are underachieving academically. They are behind their peers in other neighborhoods.
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Epilepsy

Nov 27, 2009
This disease is characterized by uncontrollable seizures. The ancients used to think sufferers were possessed by demons but even with a medical explanation, it can be a life-destroying disease.
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Immigration Reform

Nov 21, 2009
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.
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Immigration Reform

Nov 19, 2009
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.
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Hi-Speed Rail in China

Nov 17, 2009
Las Vegas Sun Reporter Marshall Allen was recently in China on vacation. He joins us to tell about his adventures and particularly the new maglev train that travels at over 300 miles an hour.
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Cap and Trade

Nov 17, 2009
Brookings Institution Economist Adele Morris is in town as part of UNLV's program Brookings West and she will be speaking at the Greenspun School of Journalism today. She joins us to explain why the Copenhagen conference will not be able to agree on a common plan to tackle climate change.
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Almost as Bad as California

Nov 12, 2009
That's the conclusion of a new report from the Pew Center on the States. California's economy is the worst in the nation but others in the Sunbelt, including Nevada's, are almost as bad.
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Predators

Nov 05, 2009
The pilots who fly the unmanned aircraft from Creech Air Force Base north of Las Vegas go to work like many white-collar workers. It's a 40-minute commute and then they're back in the suburbs.
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Health Reform Update

Oct 31, 2009
As new public opinion polls show increased support for "the public option," Senate Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid, is trying to find a compromise that will please those demanding a government insurance program and those who are reluctant to increase government's role in the health care sector. We talk with Wendell Potter, a former public relations executive for the health insurance industry, who now denounces the industry's deceptive arguments.
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Faith and Health Care Reform

Oct 28, 2009
The health care reform debate is splitting faith communities. Does faith require health care be available to all? Or is it a matter of voluntary charity? Believers on both sides of the argument explain their points of view.
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Health Reform and Cancer

Oct 28, 2009
Cancer survivor rates are tragic stories of those who did not survive are invoked on both sides of the health care debate? Does reform promise to treat the untreated or will it threaten new and exciting technologies. Dr.
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Census 2010

Oct 27, 2009
The big count is less than a year away and the Census Bureau is gearing up to ensure a full and accurate count. But there is opposition in some libertarian minds and minorities claim that they are chronically undercounted.
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Health Reform Update

Oct 26, 2009
As new public opinion polls show increased support for "the public option," Senate Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid, is trying to find a compromise that will please those demanding a government insurance program and those who are reluctant to increase government's role in the health care sector. We talk with Wendell Potter, a former public relations executive for the health insurance industry, who now denounces the industry's deceptive arguments.
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Gustavo Arellano and Reuben Navarette

Oct 23, 2009
Two of the Southwest's feistiest writers join us to discuss health care, the wars in the Middle East and CNN's take on Latinos in America.
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Renters' Rights

Oct 21, 2009
Some people have left their apartments or houses, gone to work and returned to find stickers on the windows and doors warning them to stay out. Others receive visits from seemingly official types who say they have 72 hours to vacate.
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School Superintendent

Oct 19, 2009
The budget news keeps getting worse and now the valley's population is slipping. That's a huge reversal from the booming growth through the last two decades.
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Flute in Reach

Oct 15, 2009
A Las Vegas company has joined the rush to develop new software for the iPhone. It's a series of how-to-play lessons for musical instruments.
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Joe Heck

Oct 15, 2009
Former State Senator Joe Heck who began rebuilding his political career after the 2008 election by challenging Gov. Jim Gibbons.
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Good Food and Good Eating

Oct 13, 2009
The movement to slow food and organic food is trying to reverse decades of government policy that has maximized cost effective production. Can we improve food by growing more locally as famed Bay-area restaurateur Alice Waters has argued, or is it simply another elitist movement? We talk with UNLV food scientist Christine Bergman and author Raj Patel.
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College Dropouts

Oct 13, 2009
The debate about college dropouts has been long on rhetoric and short on facts. Former college presidents William Bowen and Michael McPherson have written a book Crossing the Finish Line to try and quantify the real problems students have in finishing college.
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