Episodes

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 best picture of 2019, Parasite.

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 and how they’re impacting businesses. At the end of the show host Joey Lovato and Managing Editor Eli...

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 Carson City library about the interesting things librarians are doing while people can’t go to them, i...

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. After that Joey calls up Dr. Mark Pandori, the director of the Nevada State Health Lab, to talk ab...

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 stress surrounding it as well as being socially isolated. At the end of the episode host, Joey and r...

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 making to keep the supply chain moving during the pandemic. At the end of the show Joey and Indytern Kr...

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 working its way through Congress could change how we understand the issue of missing and murdered indigenous wo...

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. On Sunday, local health officials confirmed another two cases — one in Washoe County and another in...

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 Las Vegas from 1982 to 2014. At the end of the show, editor Jon Ralston and host Joey Lovato chat ab...

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 episode, Jon answers some trivia questions that Jacob struggled with last week.

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 the 12-year-long, first-in-the-west caucus era. As the national media turns its attention to South Carolin...

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 well underway, The Nevada Independent wanted to know what the voters waiting in the long lines were thi...

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, host Joey Lovato and reporter Jacob Solis talk about the Oscars this year.