Timothy Pratt

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Day of the Dead festivities bring cultures together: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009; In the biggest single-day event in the Springs Preserve’s two-year history, thousands of Las Vegas Valley Hispanics and others rubbed shoulders, stood in lines together and otherwise swarmed the site’s 180 acres Nov. 1, drawn by a Mexican tradition known as the Day of the Dead.
The new faces of day labor: U.S. citizens are joining immigrants in store parking lots; Monday, Nov. 2, 2009; In the latest sign of the Las Vegas Valley’s economic free fall, U.S. citizens are starting to show up in the early mornings outside home improvement stores and plant nurseries across the Las Vegas Valley, jostling with illegal immigrants for a shot at a few hours of work.
‘Desperate’ Nevadans flooding help line: It’s another result of a crippling recession: More are needy; Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009; Since the economy tanked, more Nevadans than ever are dialing the number of Nevada 2-1-1 -- a toll-free information service that United Way runs here and in 45 other states -- and they are more eager for help. Since 2007, when the recession began, the average number of monthly calls has increased 22 percent.
More welfare going to parents here illegally: The number of families with citizen children receiving aid has nearly doubled since ’07; Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009; Jose Silva had just obtained an appointment in three weeks to see whether his family would be eligible for monthly welfare benefits. “Now I just have to not eat until then,” he joked, standing with his wife outside the state office on Flamingo Road.
New census query on immigration status would diminish state’s clout: Two GOP senators introduce amendment to keep illegal immigrants out of the count; Friday, Oct. 23, 2009; Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, tacked an amendment onto an appropriations bill this month that, if passed, would greatly affect Nevada because of its relatively large Hispanic population.
Mortgage scammers haven’t felt law’s effect: Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009; Compliance with a new law aimed at regulating mortgage modification and foreclosure prevention, a runaway industry rife with scammers, is off to a slow start, causing concern for those on the front lines.
Nevada is prosecuting ACORN itself, not just individuals in it: Monday, Oct. 19, 2009; For more than 40 years ACORN has helped the nation’s poor solve their own problems.
He was ready; help was there: A new, more active approach to aiding the chronically homeless has begun to pay off; Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009; In 2004, state legislators budgeted $4.2 million for helping the hard-core homeless. It was the first time the state had targeted money at the issue.
At the time, this meant nothing to Charles Jones.
Getting psychiatric patients out of ERs: New resolve may lead to faster treatment, solution to old crowding problem; Friday, Oct. 9, 2009; Five years ago then-Clark County Manager Thom Reilly declared a crisis when about a third of the valley’s emergency rooms were filled with psychiatric patients, most of whom were waiting to be transferred to the state’s mental health hospital.
Community’s involvement has Hispanic leaders excited: Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009; Breakfast at Dona Maria Tamales Restaurant has been the setting for many a turn of the wheel as politics has followed population for the Las Vegas Valley’s Hispanics, and Wednesday was no exception.