IMPACT

IMPACT

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IMPACT episodes

  • IMPACT on Inclusivity and the Oscars
    Carrie Kaufman talks with WGA writer Michelle Amor Gilles about telling your own stories, and the recent decision by the Academy Awards to ensure the Best Picture nominees are inclusive. We also talk local business with Peter Guzman, and dish with Leisa Mosely about gender and fires and Bob Woodward.
    1 hr 1 min
  • IMPACT of Performing Arts
    CCSD's performing arts programs are some of the best in the country. Carrie Kaufman talked with CCSD performing arts director Jeff Williams about how his teachers and students are adjusting to online learning.
    16 min
  • IMPACT of First Week
    Governor Steve Sisolak's press conference on the Coronavirus - annotated. Three new testing sites in Clark County. CCSD's biggest success - performing arts. And how DID that first week of school go?
    59 min
  • James Bilbray on the Postal Service
    Former Nevada Congressman Jim Bilbray served on the postal board for over a decade. In this timeless interview, he shares the contradictions of running a business that is also a government agency.
    18 min
  • IMPACT of States Rights and Voting
    Carrie Kaufman talked with Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford about how federal changes regarding mail-in ballots impact states rights. Nevada has joined one of several lawsuits against the U.S. Postal Service. We also gained a wealth of knowledge on the topic from former Congressman James Bilbray. And we talk to the author of a harrowing Review Journal piece on nursing homes in the time of COVID.
    1 hr
  • IMPACT of the Postal Service
    Carrie Kaufman talks with Senator Jacky Rosen, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee that heard from Postal Inspector Louis DeJoy. Rosen grilled DeJoy during the meeting. We also go over voting logistics with the head of Mi Familia Vota and the League of Women Voters of Nevada.
    1 hr 1 min
  • IMPACT on Fixing Unemployment
    Barbara Buckley has been tapped to lead a task force to untangle some of the roadblocks that are keeping people from getting unemployment. The biggest roadblock she has identified? Fraud. Remember that Target data breach? Or the Experian one? Fraudsters are using that info now.
    12 min
  • IMPACT on Guitars for Students
    Paul Kleemann put out a call on Twitter: I need guitars! Kleemann is the guitar teacher at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. He has about 200 students, but only 60 guitars. With no new money coming from the state, and his students doing virtual school, he's in a bind: how does he get guitars in the hands of all of his students. Well, people have come through. But he could use more.
    7 min

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A daily look at the impact of the coronavirus on the lives of Nevadans through a social, educational and economic lens. We'll look at how people are responding to each other, and how they are creating…