Walt

I’ve asked former Clark County School District superintendent Walt Rulffes to do a scheduled segment on our news about K – 12 education in Southern Nevada.  During my five- year tenure as chancellor I worked closely with Walt on K – 16 problems and solutions.  His insight and understanding will go far to answer your questions about K – 12.

Brookings

The Brookings Institute provides us with insight into Nevada’s economy and its future.  We will be inviting a representative of the Brookings Institute to discuss Nevada’s economy with our own reporter, Marissa Mike, a Harvard graduate in economics.  Marissa represents the intellect and education of our outstanding news staff.

Ken Ladd

Ken Ladd, long time financial wizard and financial leader throughout the entire West, but especially in Las Vegas, joins us as a regular commentator on business history and outlook in Southern Nevada.  Now a retired president of U. S. Bank, no one understands banking and financial structure and the influences upon our entire economy that the banking industry exerts better than Ken.  His knowledge of the financial structure of UNLV will shed real insight into the funding of higher education.

Ideas

Substantive and relevant journalism is what we’ve attempted to broadcast and will do even more so in the future.  Rape, robbery and mayhem are certainly part of our society’s conduct, but for too long journalists have used this easy access information to fill their broadcasts and newspapers.  We want to broadcast information THAT AFFECTS ALL OF YOU, NOT JUST A FEW OF YOU.  We need and want your ideas, and during the next four days I’ll give you some of ours.  In order to know where Las Vegas is going we believe you need to know where it’s been.  Former Governor and U. S. Senator, Richard Bryan, and our own news director, Robert Stoldal, will discuss Nevada’s history and how that history will influence Nevada’s future.

Better Serve

I believe local broadcasters are finally being forced to present programming that serves the needs of local residents.  We are being forced out of the entertainment business because cable, with more than a hundred channels, has captured that audience.  This will present us with a challenge and yet an ability to broadcast content in substantial amounts as we should have broadcast over the last thirty years as Nevada grew and developed a whole new series of problems.  In September we will begin a one-hour news program at 7 PM.  We anticipate that in August we will be changing another hour of programming and replacing that with an hour of news.  In September 2014, we will replace Dr. Phil with an hour of news.  It is a major undertaking for us, but we believe we will better serve all of you.

Opposing Views

Contrary to what a small group of viewers believes, I have the right and I believe the obligation to present as many viewpoints, including my own, about this community.  I’m a liberal and have no problem explaining to you that I am a liberal with liberal views.  My views are biased and unlike Foxes editorial policy, I do not claim that my views are unbiased.  But I present those views with the thought that it might stimulate you to examine the issues to reach your own conclusions.  I invite anyone with opposing views to present those in a professional manner and we will broadcast those views.

FCC

Under FCC law, I’m able to broadcast nearly anything I choose to broadcast.  Content regulation by the FCC is very, very limited.  But regardless of not having to control the content of our programming because of some government institution’s restrictions, our entire philosophy has been to inform and educate you so that you can deal with and adjust to the environment in which you live.