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This week on IndyMatters, reporter Riley Snyder and editor Jon Ralston talk with producer Jacob Solis about the expected upcoming special session of the Legislature — from how the legislative building is being prepared for a socially-distance session, as well as what to expect from the session itself. After that, reporter Michelle Rindels talks with Phyllis Gurgevich, the President and CEO of the...

This week on IndyMatters, reporters Riley Snyder and Michelle Rindels interview John Piro, a Clark County public defender who was arrested while working as a legal observer at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas. After that, reporter Jazmin Orozco-Rodriguez speaks with UNLV Immigration Clinic Director Michael Kagan and DACA recipient Nayelli Rico Lopez about the recent Supreme Cour...

This week on IndyMatters, editors Jon Ralston and Elizabeth Thomspon break down election night and some of the big races that have been called. As the state continues to count votes we will have more coverage for you. After that producer Jacob Solis talks with interns Savanna Strott and Tabitha Mueller about voters they talked to at the polls. At the end of the show, host Joey Lovato talks with Jo...

This week on IndyMatters, reporter Michelle Rindels and host Joey Lovato talk with Republican Assemblyman Tom Roberts about police reform after he issued a call on Twitter for a special session on the matter. After that, Michelle and Joey talk with Boyd School of Law Professor Frank Rudy Cooper about his recent op-ed on how Supreme Court precedent makes it difficult to prosecute police misconduct.

This week on IndyMatters, reporters Riley Snyder and Michelle Rindels talk with Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford about housing and evictions in the state amid the coronavirus pandemic. After that editors Jon Ralston and Elizabeth Thompson talk about The Indy’s new judicial tracker and elections page as well as what to expect in the coming election, and Jon gives a little advice to voters. At the...

This week on IndyMatters, reporter Humberto Sanchez talks with congresswoman Dina Titus about what she’s doing in DC to help businesses back here in Nevada during the coronavirus pandemic. Later host Joey Lovato talks with intern Kristyn Leonard about her reporting on food insecurity in the state. At the end of the show, Joey and reporter Riley Snyder talk a food tip that Riley has learned.

This week on IndyMatters, reporters Riley Snyder and Jackie Valley discuss their story on businesses reopening across the state last weekend. After that, reporter and producer Jacob Solis talks with reporter Daniel Rothberg about his story on dozens of WARN Act filings — and what that means for the state. At the end of the show, reporter Megan Messerly and editor Jon Ralston face off in the great...

This week on IndyMatters, reporter Humberto Sanchez talks with congresswoman Susie Lee about DC’s efforts to curb the economic impact that coronavirus is having on the nation. Later in the show reporter and producer Jacob Solis talks with reporter Michelle Rindels about how the state is handling the massive unemployment claim numbers. At the end of the episode, Jacob and editor Jon Ralston finish...

This week on IndyMatters, host Joey Lovato debriefs reporter Michelle Rindels on the governor’s press conference Thursday night on how he plans to reopen the state. After that reporter Humberto Sanchez talks to another member of the congressional delegation, Mark Amodei, about his successful efforts to help reverse a Small Business Administration rule and direct small business relief to small gami...

This week on IndyMatters, reporter Humberto Sanchez talks with Representative Steven Horsford about how Nevada has fared in the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. Later reporter and producer Jacob Solis debriefs reporter Megan Messerly and host Joey Lovato on where the state is at with testing for coronavirus. At the end of the show editors Jon Ralston and Elizabeth Thompson debate the...

This week on IndyMatters, reporter Humberto Sanchez talks with Senator Catherine Cortez Masto about how the federal government has responded to the coronavirus as it relates to Nevada, like small business loans and paycheck protection loans. Later reporter and producer Jacob Solis talks with intern Kristyn Miller about the federal small business loans on a smaller scale and zooms in on the state a...

This week on IndyMatters, reporter Daniel Rothberg talks with Caleb Cage the former Chief of the Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security Advisor who is now serving as incident commander during the coronavirus outbreak. He talked about how prepared the state is for a pandemic and how data could inform decisions going forward. Later Joey talks with Tod Colegrove the director of the Ca...

This week on IndyMatters, host Joey Lovato and reporter Michelle Rindels talk about how COVID-19 is affecting the state from prisons to evictions to the sewers. They go over the broad impacts that have happened since the state shut down and talk about what the governor announced yesterday during a press conference where he extended the shutdown on nonessential businesses until the end of the month...

This week on IndyMatters, intern Tabitha Mueller talks with Rhea Gertken the directing attorney of the Reno office of Nevada Legal Service about how evictions and eviction proceedings will happen in the state during the COVID-19 pandemic. After that intern, Jazmin Orozco-Rodriguez and host Joey Lovato talk to Dr. Frank Lemus a therapist in Nevada about how people are dealing with COVID-19 and the...

This week on IndyMatters, host Joey Lovato goes to the University of Nevada, Reno to interview Mark Pandori, the director of the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory, one of the labs in charge of running the tests for COVID-19 in the state. Later Joey and reporter Michelle Rindels talk to Paul Enos the CEO of the Nevada Trucking Association to learn about all the logistics and efforts they’re mak...

This week on IndyMatters, host Joey Lovato chats with our Washington D.C. reporter Humberto Sanchez about the federal response to the novel coronavirus. They talk about the bills and measures that are being introduced, the measures that are being taken and the overall tone in the capital.  After that, reporter and producer Jacob Solis talks with reporter Shannon Miller about how a bill workin...

For weeks, the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus have ticked up across the United States. That included confirmed cases in a ring of states around Nevada, including Oregon, California, Arizona and Utah. On Thursday, Nevada joined that list, confirming the first so-called “presumptive positive” test case, a Las Vegas man in his 50s. By that night, there was a second case in Reno. O...

This week on IndyMatters, reporter Jackie Valley talks with Drew Cohen, the co-owner of Writers Block, an independent bookstore in Las Vegas. They chat about literary trends and what people are reading at the start of 2020. After that intern, Shannon Miller talks with Ramon Savoy the former publisher/editor and reporter of the Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice, a newspaper serving the black communities in...

This week on IndyMatters, reporter and producer Jacob Solis and Editor Jon Ralston give us a postmortem on the Nevada caucus. What went right, what went wrong and the future of the caucus here in the silver state. After that Jon sits down with Dr. Marc Harrison, the president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, a nonprofit healthcare system that serves the western United States. At the end of the...

On Saturday, it finally happened: Nevada’s presidential caucus came and went, and it largely skirted past the vote-counting nightmare of the Iowa caucuses earlier this month.  But it wasn’t all smooth sailing, either — and with announcements, this week from Gov. Steve Sisolak and former Sen. Harry Reid that may spell doom for future caucuses, Nevada's 2020 effort will likely form a coda to th...

This week on IndyMatters, reporter Megan Messerly and producer Jacob Solis sit down to talk about the upcoming caucus, which will be held on Feb. 22. Later, host Joey Lovato and reporter Daniel Rothberg talk about how caucus math and delegate allocation works in the rural counties in Nevada. At the end of the show, Joey tests Jacob with presidential candidate trivia.

For the first time in the short-lived history of the state’s presidential caucus, the 2020 election has given Nevada Democrats the opportunity to cast their votes early. But it’s a process that comes with more than a few questions attached, especially in the wake of an Iowa caucus that turned disastrous in part because of the implementation of new technology. With that early voting process now wel...

This week on IndyMatters, reporters Jacob Solis and Megan Messerly sit down to talk about Megan’s trip to New Hampshire for the Democratic presidential primary. After that, host Joey Lovato and intern Jazmin Orozco-Rodriguez sit down with Kathy Sisolak to talk about her new arts initiative at the Governor’s Mansion in Carson City as well as her time as the first lady. At the end of the episode, ho...

This week on IndyMatters, reporters Jacob Solis and Megan Messerly sit down to talk about Megan’s trip to Iowa for the Democratic presidential caucuses, and the hangups that delayed the release of results for days. After that, host Joey Lovato calls up our Washington D.C. correspondent Humberto Sanchez to get the lowdown on all of the events going on in the nation’s capital, from President Donald...

In this week’s episode of IndyMatters, Editors Jon Ralston and Elizabeth Thompson sit down to talk about the presidential race in Nevada — from where candidates stand to what they think will happen. They also give a preview of some upcoming Indy events. After that, reporter Jacob Solis debriefs intern Shannon Miller about the Point-in-Time Count that happened in Las Vegas and Reno. Shannon followe...