It's All Politics
3:04 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Axelrod Argues Obama Economic Policies Worked, Though There's More To Do

Credit Brian Kersey / AP
David Axelrod.

David Axelrod, President Obama's political strategist, has what appears to be — from outside the president's re-election campaign, at least — a problem.

Back in early 2009, when the Obama presidency was still brand new, the president gave that NBC News interview in which he talked about his administration being a "one-term proposition" if the economy didn't snap back in time for his re-election.

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The Conservation Beat
2:14 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Group Gives NM a D- in Prairie Dog Hospitality

Credit Jovianeye

There may not be any ground hogs around to help New Mexicans celebrate February second.  But there are prairie dogs.  And a report out today says the state should be doing more to protect them.  KUNM's Sidsel Overgaard explains.

Native America Calling
1:54 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Examining Tribal Identity Through Film

Credit Kendra Mylnechuk and Peter O'Leary in OK Breathe Auralee

Fri. 2/03 11a: “OK BREATHE AURALEE” is a film gracing audiences at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It exposes some of the intricacies of Native life. 

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Afropop Worldwide
1:23 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Reimagining Africa In America: From Mainstream Jazz to the Avant Garde

Thu. 2/03 at 10p: Everyone knows jazz: blues, improvisation, syncopated rhythm, all firmly rooted in Africa via Congo Square in New Orleans.  But how have American jazz masters addressed the African ancestry of their music?

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Fronteras
12:22 pm
Thu February 2, 2012

Latino Achievement Gap Series: Dual Language Immersion

An estimated one in five children in the U.S. speaks a language other than English at home. In most of these homes, that language is Spanish. And yet the vast majority of these children are taught strictly in English at school. Some educators believe this is part of the reason Latino children are lagging in school compared to their white and Asian peers.

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It's All Politics
11:08 am
Thu February 2, 2012

Jon Stewart: 'If You're In A Net, Something Has Gone Terribly... Wrong'

Originally published on Thu February 2, 2012 8:15 am

Mitt Romney may want to see if there's anything his new Secret Service team can do to protect him from Jon Stewart's comedic barbs.

On The Daily Show Wednesday, after playing the infamous CNN clip in which Romney spoke of not being concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net, or the very rich, Stewart reacted thusly:

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Alt.Latino: The Show
11:07 am
Thu February 2, 2012

¡Metal! 9 New Latin Metal Bands You Should Be Listening To

Originally published on Thu February 2, 2012 8:49 am

English / Spanish

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Peggy Lowe joined Harvest Public Media in 2011, returning to the Midwest after 22 years as a journalist in Denver and Southern California. Most recently she was at The Orange County Register, where she was a multimedia producer and writer. In Denver she worked for The Associated Press, The Denver Post and the late, great Rocky Mountain News. She was on the Denver Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Columbine. Peggy was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2008-09. She is from O'Neill, the Irish Capital of Nebraska, and now lives in Kansas City. Based at KCUR, Peggy is the analyst for The Harvest Network and often reports for Harvest Public Media.

Election 2012
10:01 pm
Wed February 1, 2012

Sour Economy Has Nevada Looking For New Jackpot

It's noon on the Las Vegas Strip, and the barker outside O'Shea's Casino is hard at work.

"Twenty-four-hour happy hour, 24-hour $5 blackjack and 24-hour beer pong action going on right here today," he says. Dressed in a lime green tuxedo, he's doing his best to get tourists to come in.

Despite the recession, nearly 39 million visitors came to the city last year, the second-highest number in Las Vegas history. The problem is those tourists don't have as much money as they once did.

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Shots - Health Blog
10:01 pm
Wed February 1, 2012

How One Hospital Entices Doctors To Work In Rural America

Recruiting doctors to live and work in rural America is a chronic problem. Most health centers try to attract workers with big salaries and expensive homes.

Shots previously reported that one center in Maine was trying to lure medical students to the countryside for their final two years with the hope that they stick around.

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