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PNS Daily Newscast - November 15, 2019
President Trump asks SCOTUS to block release of his tax returns; use of the death penalty is on the decline across the country; and a push to make nutrition part of the health-care debate.
2020Talks - November 14, 2019
It's World Diabetes Day, and health care, including the high cost of insulin and other drugs, is a top issue for many voters. Plus, do early states like Iowa and New Hampshire have an outsized role in the nomination process?
Archive: January 10, 2013
KENNEWICK, Wash. - If your New Year's resolution is to start your own business, a visit to the Tri-Cities could help. "Start Smart" is a one-time, three-hour workshop held monthly in Kennewick to give entrepreneurs the basic information they need to launch a business idea in Washington. LoAnn Ayers ...Read More
DENVER - Think "E.R." - but in real life. That's what audiences experience when viewing the film "The Waiting Room." The Academy-Award-shortlisted documentary portrays a day in the life of one of America's public hospitals. It focuses on the people in the hospital's waiting room - the patients, and ...Read More
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Later this month, about 100 volunteers will fan out across Nassau and Suffolk counties for a "point in time" count of the number of homeless people not living in shelters or doubling up in relatives' or friends' houses. Volunteer enumerators will visit libraries, laundromats and ...Read More
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - With just a week to go before his State of the State address, Gov. Sandoval is receiving some policy advice from local progressives who say Nevada needs to change course on revenue. Laura Martin, communications director with the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), say ...Read More
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A sharp, long-term fall in the price of solar cells has led The Economist magazine and others to declare that in sunny areas with high electricity prices, solar power is now cheap enough to compete without government subsidies. Rory McIlmoil, program manager for the energy progr ...Read More
CRISFIELD, Md. - U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., is touring areas hit by Hurricane Sandy today, checking up on how recovery is progressing. Somerset County was hit hard by the storm, with Crisfield suffering the most home damage. Cardin says it's an economically-disadvantaged area, where almost 600 ho ...Read More
VERO BEACH, Fla. - Florida will be the country's first location to produce ethanol from yard waste such as leaves and tree trunks. The INEOS Bio Facility will soon be up and running in Vero Beach, using new technology to turn non-food biomass waste into fuel to be used in gasoline. Jeremy Martin i ...Read More
