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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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