IndyMatters

This week on IndyMatters, Reporter Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez talks with tribal members who were finally able to gather and bless the pine nut harvest for the first time since the pandemic started. After that, Host Joey Lovato talks with Alyssa Nota, the CEO and president of the University Studies Abroad Consortium, and a student, Tyler Moye, who was studying abroad in China when the pandemic hit last March. Then, Assistant Editor Michelle Rindels and Reporter Riley Snyder talk about the state budget as we approach the final days of the 120-day legislative session. At the end of the episode, we have a short clip from Third House! The comedy show put on by the press corps at the end of every legislative session.

0:00 - Intro

1:15 - Pine nut blessing ceremony

8:25 - Studying abroad during a pandemic

14:10 - Legislative update

25:30 - Third House

27:50 - Outro/Credits

This week on IndyMatters, Assistant Editor Michelle Rindels talks with State Treasurer Zach Conine about fine-tuning a backlogged rental assistance program. Then, Environmental Reporter Daniel Rothberg talks about what’s ahead for wildfire season with Host Joey Lovato. After that, Producer Jacob Solis talks with Legislative Reporter Riley Snyder and Assistant Editor Michelle Rindels about what’s in store in the waning days of the legislative session. At the end of the show, Reporter Riley Snyder and Intern Sean Golonka discuss the NBA playoffs.

0:00 - Intro

1:25 - Rental Assistance

8:05 - Wildfires

14:35 - Legislative update

28:35 - Basketball with Riley and Sean

33:00 - Outro/Credits

This week, Environmental Reporter Daniel Rothberg talks with the Desert Research Institute’s Dr. Monica Arienzo about the effects that disintegrated plastics have on the environment. Then, Host Joey Lovato talks with Education Reporter Jackie Valley and Assistant Editor Michelle Rindels about the state of play for school funding in Nevada, which hasn’t been changed in over 50 years. At the end of the show we hear from D.C. Reporter Humberto Sanchez with the latest on an infusion of federal COVID relief dollars and Nevada representatives pursuing key committee seats.

0:00 - Intro

1:11 - Microplastics

12:10 - Education funding formula

21:50 - D.C. update

27:15 - Outro/Credits

This week, Intern Jannelle Calderón speaks with laid-off hospitality workers who are pushing for a controversial bill that would guarantee them the right to return to their old jobs as the state reopens. Then, Intern Sean Golonka talks with Host Joey Lovato about how inmate families are reacting as prisons reopen to family visits for the first time in more than a year. At the end of the show, Reporter and Producer Jacob Solis talks with Assistant Editor Michelle Rindels and Reporter Riley Snyder about what’s going on as we come into the final stretch of the legislative session.

0:00 - Intro

1:15 - Right to return

8:25 - Prisons reopen for visitation

20:25 - Legislative update

27:50 - Outro/Credits

This week, Producer and Reporter Jacob Solis talks with UNLV President Keith Whitfield about his first academic year on the job, and how he plans on handling everything from COVID to the budget to increasing diversity among faculty After that, Host Joey Lovato talks with Reporter Jackie Valley and Assistant Editor Michelle Rindels about people coming back to work, DETR’s reinstated policy that unemployment claimants must be looking for work and how some businesses are struggling to find employees. At the end of the show, D.C. Reporter Humberto Sanchez tells us about the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, which would expand anti-poverty measures and help middle-class families with things like childcare and more, Humberto also talks about some protests from TPS and DACA recipients happening in D.C.

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - Interview with UNLV President Keith Whitfield 

12:25 - Looking for workers and a job search requirement for unemployment claimants

23:00 - D.C. Update

30:00 - Outro/Credits