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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
