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»2/9/10 State of the State and MGM Leaves Atlantic City
Gov. Gibbons has laid out his ideas on how to balance the state budget, but $900 million is a big hole to fix. We talk with Speaker Barbara Buckley and other Nevada legislators who have the really hard job of actually rewriting the budget. Will it be just more cuts or will there be some tax increases as well?

And MGM Mirage announced yesterday that it is selling out of Atlantic City. We find out why the company's going all in on Macau.


»2/8/10 African-American History Museum and State of the State Preview
How do you tell the story of African-Americans? Lonnie Bunch of the Smithsonian Institution is working on that question and we ask him how he does it.

But first, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons plans to slash as much as $900 million from the state budget. It's the latest round of cuts as the state's revenue nosedives. We ask leaders of key interest groups - business, unions and schools and colleges - where they think the ax should fall.


»2/5/10 Shakespeare, Water Rights, UNLV Football, NOMO, Mt Reagan, First Friday
We meet the stars of the Utah Shakespearean Festival's production of "The Taming of the Shrew." It's playing this weekend at the Cheyenne campus of the College of Southern Nevada.

And rural Nevadans say that Las Vegas wants to steal their water and make those northern counties dust bowls. The water authorities, they charge, have rigged the studies and concealed embarrassing scientific tests, but Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager hits back, arguing that White Pine officials have sabotaged any chance for an intelligent scientific debate.

Then can the new man work miracles? Or at least, can he get a winning football program? We ask the new UNLV athletic director about that.


»2/4/10 Teen Pregnancy
The rate of teen pregnancy is again on the rise. After the great debate about whether abstinence or contraceptive education was more successful, it appears that neither is very effective. We talk with a health counselor and the principal of the Clark County School that allows pregnant students to graduate. We also meet a student who is pregnant and a teen who is running a one-woman campaign to raise awareness about the problem among her peers.


»2/3/10 Yucca Mountain and Higher Education Crisis
Could Yucca Mountain be about to be closed up forever. President Obama has made good on an election promise but how does the administration square that with the promise to build more nuclear plants. We look at the short future of Yucca Mountain and what could happen when more nuclear waste is created.

And faculty layoffs and huge tuition increases: That's why they're calling it the greatest financial state of emergency in decades. We'll talk with system officials about the crisis.


»2/2/10 Pediatrician in Haiti
First we talk to a doctor who flew to Haiti to work in orphanages and hospitals after the earthquake.

And we talk with UNLV Sociologist Shannon Monnat about her research showing that minority women are more likely to die from cancer and have fewer screenings than white women.


»2/1/10 Water Rights and The Congo Connection
Las Vegas Water authorities have been working on rural water claims for more than two decades. Last week the Supreme Court told them to start again. We take a look at what that means for the $3.5 billion pipeline project and the future of growth in Southern Nevada.

A Nevada company could be implicated in importing metals from the worst war zones in Africa. We talk with an investigator who's followed the story on three continents.