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Recession frays a health care safety net for low-income Nevadans
Medical group, serving poor and uninsured, struggles to surviveLas Vegas Sun
By Marshall Allen
April 21, 2010
The weight of the recession is pushing Nevada Health Centers, the medical safety net for tens of thousands of low-income Nevadans, to the financial breaking point, officials with the nonprofit organization say.
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COMMENTARY: Environment, consumers can gain by renewable energy projects in Nevada
Las Vegas SunBy Michele Burkett
April 4, 2010
Don’t leave your house. That’s what the voice on the radio was telling me: Don’t leave your house. The air in Salt Lake City was dangerously polluted and the state was warning us that breathing the air outside would be hazardous to our health.
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Minimum wage hike to raise pay of 100,000 Nevadans
Las Vegas SunBy Cy Ryan
March 29, 2010
CARSON CITY – The minimum wage for an estimated 100,000 Nevada workers will be going up 70 cents an hour starting July 1.
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$11 million transit center opens in northwest valley
Las Vegas Sun
By Tiffany Gibson
March 29, 2010
Transportation officials unveiled the new Centennial Hills Transit Center on Monday and recognized members of the congressional delegation who supported the federal Recovery Act, which helped to fund the facility.
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Wholesale prices drop 0.6 percent in Feb.
Reno Gazette JournalBy Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press
March 18, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Prices at the wholesale level plunged in February by the largest amount in seven months as a big drop in energy prices offset higher food costs.
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SUN EDITORIAL: Making OSHA work
Bills in Congress would take important steps to help ensure worker safetyLas Vegas Sun
March 18, 2010
Over the past few years, Nevada has become a poster child of the problems with workplace safety oversight and regulation. During the construction boom on the Las Vegas Strip, for example, there were 12 deaths in an 18-month period, and Nevada’s workplace safety regulators were criticized for their slow, anemic response.
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Recession sends workers back to school
Las Vegas SunBy Emily Richmond
March 18, 2010
After being laid off from his job repairing industrial machinery, 40-year-old Las Vegan David Dewees found himself in the unemployment line for the first time in his life.
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Housing starts post gains in West, drops nationally
Reno Gazette JournalBy Jason Hidalgo
March 17, 2010
Housing starts in the West posted gains in February despite a nationwide drop, but a local builders' group also said new housing volume remains short of the norm.
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School Zone: District implements new green initiatives
Reno Gazette JournalMarch 17, 2010
School Zone is a weekly column written by the Washoe County School District trustees and administration about key issues and noteworthy news for parents, teachers and students.
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Nevada prison population drops in 2009
Reno Gazette JournalBy Martha Bellisle
March 17, 2010
The number of inmates in state prisons across the country, including in Nevada, dropped last year for the first time in about 40 years, according to a new survey by the Pew Center on the States.
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Worst of recession may be over, but Las Vegas still has to hold on
In the way of recovery, Brookings report finds, are our tourism-dependent economy, unskilled workersLas Vegas Sun
By J. Patrick Coolican
March 17, 2010
After two years of economic decline, the gross metropolitan product of Las Vegas, which measures Southern Nevada’s total output of goods and services, grew slightly in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution.
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Census forms arrive in Nevada mailboxes this week
Reno Gazette JournalBy Frank X Mullen Jr.
March 16, 2010
People who rail against government waste and over-spending have a chance to help save the taxpayers more than $1 billion in the coming months.
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Las Vegas apartment market still in grip of recession
Las Vegas SunBy Buck Wargo
March 16, 2010
Nevada is not only at the top of the list in home foreclosures. The state also leads the nation in the percentage of delinquent loans for apartment complexes.
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Waiver allows School District to shift textbook money
Las Vegas SunBy Cy Ryan
March 9, 2010
CARSON CITY –- The state Board of Examiners has granted a waiver to the Clark County School District so it doesn’t have to spend its entire budget allotment for textbooks, instructional supplies and computer hardware.
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Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension
Reno Gazette JournalBy Andrew taylor, Associated Press Writer
March 9, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.
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