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This week, Host Joey Lovato is joined by Washington Post Soccer Reporter Steven Goff and Indy Reporter Howard Stutz to talk about Major League Soccer considering Las Vegas for their next expansion team. Then, Reporter Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez talks with Indigenous artist Melissa Melero-Moose about finding her voice in her art and her goal to get more Indigenous art recognized. At the end of the show, we have a discussion on vaccine mandates between two of our opinion page contributors — author and marketing researcher Rex Briggs and Reno attorney Jason Guinasso.

1:00 - Soccer in Nevada

13:15 - Indigenous Artist

22:00 - Vaccine Mandate Discussion

32:00 - Outro / Credits

This week, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg comes on the pod to talk to Reporter Chanel Pulido about the infrastructure bill that recently passed the Senate, which will provide more than a trillion dollars to states. D.C. Reporter Humberto Sanchez also talks infrastructure in Nevada. After that, Reporter Tabitha Mueller talks with Host Joey Lovato about the housing market in Nevada as more and more homes are being purchased with cash. At the end of the show, Joey has a story on a small radio station in rural Nevada that helps bring information and entertainment to a region with limited cell service and internet.

1:00 - Infrastructure bill passes Senate

12:55 - Cash buyers in the housing market

21:20 - Radio Goldfield

30:00 - Outro / Credits

This week, Reporter Chanel Pulido has a big feature piece on a bill that passed the Legislature that promotes the teaching of diverse perspectives in Nevada public schools. After that, Reporters Humberto Sanchez, Tabitha Mueller and Jannelle Calderón have a story on an eviction moratorium that lapsed but is now back in many areas. At the end of the show, Host Joey Lovato and Reporter Jacob Solis talk about a controversy over whether Nevada colleges should require vaccines.

1:00 - Diversity in curriculum

11:25 - Eviction moratorium renewed

21:25 - Higher ed mask mandates and vaccine efforts

29:35 - Outro / Credits

This week, Intern Chanel Pulido talks with Daniel Kiser of the Desert Research Institute and Professor Luke Montrose about the interplay of wildfire smoke and COVID-19. Then, Reporter Daniel Rothberg sits down with Host Joey Lovato to talk about why the largest solar energy project in Nevada was canceled. At the end of the show, Intern Jannelle Calderón and Francine Lipman of UNLV’s Boyd School of Law talk about new child tax credits that many Nevada families have already seen clear their bank account.

0:00 - Intro

0:55 - Smoke and COVID

8:50 - Canceled solar project

18:05 - New child tax credit

26:35 - Outro / Credits

This week, host Joey Lovato talks with Paul Petersen, the state fire management officer, and Tim Brown, the director of the Western Regional Climate Center, who come on the show to talk about wildfires. Then, reporter and producer Jacob Solis goes over UNR potentially acquiring the campus of Sierra Nevada University. At the end of the show, Reporter Humberto Sanches comes on to talk about what is going on in D.C. this week, from Cuban protests to new federal funding bills and more.

0:00 - Intro

0:50 - Wildfires

17:50 - UNR-Sierra Nevada acquisition

25:00 - D.C. Debrief

30:30 - Outro/Credits