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Business and Health Reform

Oct 12, 2009
Here's a real paradox. Business groups have complained for years about the soaring cost of health care, but they've been lukewarm about much of the reform plans now in Congress.
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NACA's Saving the Dream Tour

Oct 12, 2009
The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation was working all weekend on mortgage modifications. The event attracted homeowners from around the Southwest.
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Electronic Medical Records

Oct 08, 2009
Most participants in the health care debate support electronic medical records. They'll save money that can be spent on other things and the computerized records will reduce medical errors.
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Parks in Peril

Oct 07, 2009
A joint report from the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council argues that national parks in the Southwest such as Zion National Park and the Lake Mead Recreation Area. We talk with Founder and President of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization Steven Saunders about the report's findings.
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Alan Hess

Oct 05, 2009
Architecture critic Alan Hess is visiting Las Vegas to lecture on the classic modernist style of the city. He joins us ahead of his talk to give his view on the past and future of Las Vegas architecture.
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Report by Adam Burke

Oct 01, 2009
Listen to producer Adam Burke's profile of Neal and Michelle Williams, who have been struggling in northwest Las Vegas to save their neighborhood.
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Hope at Home: Saving the Hood

Oct 01, 2009
In our continuing series "Hope at Home: Facing the Foreclosure Crisis," we look this week at what some neighborhoods are doing to prevent blight and decay as "For Sale" and "Foreclosure" signs proliferate in many areas of the valley. A neighborhood preservation expert from the city of North Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department talk about what residents can do to protect their neighborhoods.
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SON Incorrect

Sep 30, 2009
What are they really thinking? We invite a very diverse group of Las Vegans into the studio to give us a piece of their minds about the economy, health care reform and whatever else comes up in the conversation. Actress and singer Carol Linnea Johnson, Journalist Jack Sheehan, Reporter Michelle Booth of El Tiempo and Novelist and Fighter Wrath James White are here to give us their plain-speaking views.
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Cleveland Clinic

Sep 28, 2009
The world-renowned research institute, the Cleveland Clinic, is moving west. It already operates the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and now the group will build a branch in Las Vegas at Symphony Park.
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End of Life Issues

Sep 26, 2009
The health care debate has created ugly rhetoric about the government creating death panels about who should live and die. But how are those end of life decisions made now? Who makes the decision? What issues do doctors focus on in telling the patient and his or her family when further medical intervention is pointless? And what options are there to ease the pain or even speed up an inevitable death? We ask those questions of Dr.
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Daniel Gross

Sep 23, 2009
Daniel Gross has argued in recent weeks that the health care debate is hypocritical. Why? Too many people who benefit from government care are saying that it will destroy American medicine.
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Death Panels

Sep 21, 2009
The health care debate has created ugly rhetoric about the government creating death panels about who should live and die. But how are those end of life decisions made now? Who makes the decision? What issues do doctors focus on in telling the patient and his or her family when further medical intervention is pointless? And what options are there to ease the pain or even speed up an inevitable death? We ask those questions of Dr.
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Planned Parenthood

Sep 18, 2009
Abortion providers are murdered in the Midwest and some states have no providers at all. Is "choice" becoming meaningless by attrition? And where will long-time health care providers like Planned Parenthood stand under the proposed reforms.
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UMC

Sep 18, 2009
University Medical Center could find itself as part of a public option. Certainly things will change if the federal government changes the health insurance system.
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High-Speed Rail

Sep 17, 2009
High-Speed rail projects are being planned to run from Southern California. But what makes them greener than I-15? And how do they work? UNLV transportation experts Pushkin Kachroo and Tom Piechota help us understand the pros and cons of high-speed trains.
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Cancer Boss

Sep 16, 2009
Dr. John Ruckdeschel is a leading researcher on lung cancer and led the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit before taking up the reins at the Nevada Cancer Institute, where he's now chief executive officer.
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Green Chips

Sep 15, 2009
The tourist industry in Southern Nevada has launched a new green initiative. It's designed to lower energy use and costs.
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Economic Indicators

Sep 15, 2009
The national economy is looking brighter. The Federal Reserve Chairman has all but declared the recession over.
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Health Care and Hispanic Vote

Sep 10, 2009
First, President Barack Obama will be outlining his health care reform plans tonight but what will they mean for Southern Nevada? Professor Chris Cochrane of UNLV joins us to explain what would happen in Southern Nevada if the President's plan is enacted. Then, Hispanics played a large part in the 2008 presidential election.
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The Public Option

Sep 02, 2009
Even as politicians have danced around the issue, one man has become an outspoken advocate for a public option in health care reform. Strangely, he spent a lifetime working for a major insurance company.
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Unquenchable

Sep 01, 2009
Author Robert Glennon says we're spoiled when it comes to water. We need to rethink the uses and abuses of this resource that could become the single biggest issue in the West.
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Mountain's Edge

Aug 31, 2009
When fully built, the Mountain's Edge community is supposed to have a total of 6 parks. But the master-planned communities developers, Focus Property Group, wants to scale back some of those plans due to the economic downturn.
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Unions and Health Care Reform

Aug 28, 2009
The Culinary Union has long prided itself on having one of the best health insurance schemes in the valley. But will the casinos continue to pay the costs? Will it continue to keep wages flat for hotel workers? How will it look if the Congress enacts health care reform.
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Rep Shelley Berkley

Aug 28, 2009
We talk with Democratic Congresswoman Shelley Berkley about her thoughts on health care and other national issues.
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Swine Flu

Aug 25, 2009

A new report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology says as many as 90,000 people could die next winter from the swine flu. And as many as 300,000 people could require hospitalization.

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