Timothy Pratt
Reporter
Minority affairs, Immigration, Social services.
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Recent Stories (view all stories)
- Authorities to mother of five: You’re being deported Monday
- Ill woman could take her daughters to Armenia — or face separation
- Friday, July 3, 2009
- Anoush Sarkisian is not in the mood for celebrating Independence Day this year, nearly two decades after first touching U.S. soil. This Fourth of July is scheduled to be the last in Las Vegas for the 50-year-old mother of five girls. Authorities plan to deport her Monday. Sarkisian discovered this last week when she showed up for her monthly visit to local immigration authorities, and an official handed her what attorneys call a “bag and baggage” letter. It dryly informed her that “arrangements will be made for your departure to Armenia” on July 6.
- Nevada jeered, American Samoa cheered for stimulus Web sites
- Tuesday, June 30, 2009
- Nevada and American Samoa both launched Web sites in the same week of early March to keep track of the massive amounts of money that Congress had just approved under the so-called stimulus act.
- Info for Iran, from UNLV
- Author in asylum program uses Web to filter news, warnings back to her homeland
- Tuesday, June 30, 2009
- In the chaos after both incumbent and challenger crowed victory in Iran’s June 12 presidential election, an e-mail written in code landed in Moniro Ravanipour’s e-mail inbox.
- Child abuse escalates with money woes
- Agencies report spike in neglect, violence in recent months
- Friday, June 26, 2009
- With joblessness and foreclosure rates hitting record highs in the Las Vegas Valley, stressed-out parents and caregivers are more likely to abuse or neglect their children, according to experts.
- Audit of NLV agency confirms dysfunction
- But blame, specifics will have to wait
- Friday, June 19, 2009
- If a second source was needed to confirm whether the North Las Vegas Housing Authority served people poorly and squandered millions, that confirmation has arrived.
- Law allows restaurants freedom to be charitable
- Businesses consider donating food instead of throwing it away
- Thursday, June 18, 2009
- Come July 1, Kathia Pereira’s family business won’t have to toss up to 1,000 rolls and loaves of bread into the trash every week. A new state law, which she helped write, takes effect on that date, protecting donors of perishable food from liability. It will allow Bon Breads Baking Co., the business she owns with her husband, Carlos, to give bread to organizations such as Three Square food bank instead of throwing it away. “For a long time, my husband and friends in the business wouldn’t donate bread and other food because they were afraid of lawsuits,” Pereira said. “Now we don’t have to worry.”
- Possible conflicts of interest are workforce board’s norm
- Other work accepted to get best-qualified
- Friday, June 12, 2009
- Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly gave up a $48,000-a-year part-time government job after it stirred up talk about conflict of interest last month.
- Tent city plans shorting other needy?
- Private group, city of Las Vegas both focus on Foremaster Lane
- Friday, June 12, 2009
- Metro Deputy Chief Gary Schofield told his officers this spring to drop their policy of running off anyone they caught trying to feed the homeless near a tent city on Foremaster Lane.
- With little data, panel plans talk on foreclosures and minorities
- Thursday, June 11, 2009
- Panelists at tonight’s town-hall meeting on how the foreclosure crisis affects minorities in the valley are handicapped by a lack of research on the topic. According to its hosts, public radio stations KNPR 88.9-FM and KCEP 88.1-FM, the event is meant to address “how ethnic minorities have disproportionately been affected” by foreclosures in the region.
- Desire, months of searching haven’t landed woman a job
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009
- Out of work this spring, 51-year-old Paula Gray decided to stand on a highway off-ramp and hand out business cards to passing drivers.
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