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AIR DATE: September 21, 2012
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The presidential campaign is still with us and will be for another seven weeks. But there are other issues that we can talk about: the city is working on a plan to open up more parking downtown. The paper is full of stories about lawyers who have stolen clients' money or tried to fool the IRS about how much income tax they owe. Is that business as usual or do we have an ethical crisis? The Republican National Committee has finally sent in more support for voter registration but will it put them on an equal footing with the Democrats? And the long-awaited mall in Summerlin is finally going ahead. Does that mean the local economy is finally shaking off the recession? You tell us what's on your mind!
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Alicia Shepard, Visiting Professor of Journalism, UNLV and former National Public Radio Ombudsman
Erin Bilbray-Kohn, Executive Director, Emerge Nevada
Michael Cornthwaite, Downtown Cocktail Room and Emergency Arts
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As a follow-up to my thoughts on the growing epidemic of obesity in our children (multiple puns not intended), I went back and listened to the discussion on KNPR from 2005 (http://www.knpr.org/audio2005/mp3/051014_SON_obeseKids.mp3).
7 years ago, 1 in 4 of Nevada's children were overweight or obese. Today 1 in 3 are. I have no trouble believing, that as these children grow into adulthood, that 20 more years of this trend will produce the results predicted in the RWJF study.
Other states have been able to stem the tide of this epidemic. If Nevada doesn't want to be saddled with the cost of caring for all of the associated co-morbidities of obesity (diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, orthopedic infirmity, etc...), our community needs to act now.
Noah Kohn, MD –
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You're entirely missing the moral point... It's not a matter of whether various foods or practices are bad or not, but instead a matter of free people in a free country living their lives as they see fit. And, I, for one, don't at all like this never-ending progression towards nanny state mandated diets and forced calisthenics with the president every morning at 6:00 am sharp!
Tom Hurst –
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"On a local leve" rather.
Jessica Brown –
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"On a local level" rather
Jessica Brown –
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At least the park problem is easily solved... just buy your own (it's called a yard) ;-) That said, figures I've seen show that local government spends nearly $20,000 per acre per year to "maintain" their crappy parks... if government weren't so corrupt, inefficient and incompetent, even a small park could, with that kind of money, easily have a 24/7 caretaker!
Tom Hurst –
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