IndyMatters

This week on IndyMatters, Reporter Riley Snyder and Assistant Editor Michelle Rindels talk with Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson about his prostate cancer diagnosis and his quest to raise awareness about the important men’s health issue. Later, we have highlights from our IndyTalks panel on mining taxes, featuring former Legislative Counsel Bureau Director Lorne Malkiewich, longtime mining lobbyist Jim Wadhams and Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Executive Director Laura Martin. At the end of the show, beltway correspondent Humberto Sanchez gives us an update on what’s going on in D.C. this week, particularly with immigration bills.

0:00 - Intro

0:50 - Interview with Jason Frierson

14:00 - IndyTalks highlights

32:10 - DC Debrief

37:55 - Outro/Credits

This week on IndyMatters, reporter Riley Snyder gives an update on what’s going on in Carson City as the Legislature wraps up its sixth week and is about a third of the way through the 81st session. Later we hear from our man in DC, Humberto Sanchez, who tells us about the massive spending bill that will be sending Nevada around $4 billion in relief. At the end of the show Megan Messerly has an update on the COVID-19 pandemic and status of vaccines.

0:00 - Intro

0:55 - Legislative Update

11:00 - DC Update

21:45 - Covid Update

32:28 - Outro/Credits

In this special edition of IndyMatters reporter Daniel Rothberg and multimedia editor Joey Lovato talk with Blockchains LLC CEO Jeff Berns in this exclusive interview. They go over everything from what the company does to what its plans are for the future of the 67,000 acres it owns in Storey County.

This week on IndyMatters, reporter and producer Jacob Solis talks to our health care reporter Megan Messerly on the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 arriving in Nevada. Then in another installment of Freshman Orientation, The Indy gets to know freshmen Assembly members Cameron C.H. Miller (D-North Las Vegas) and Andy Matthews (R-Las Vegas).

0:00 - Intro

0:40 - COVID Retrospective

20:15 - Freshman Orientation

33:05 - Outro/Credits

This week on IndyMatters, host Joey Lovato and reporter Tabitha Mueller talk with several legal experts and an Idaho reporter about a circuit court case that has major implications for homeless encampment cleanups that have been going on in Nevada. Later, Assistant Editor Michelle Rindels talks with Nick Trutanich, the departing U.S. attorney in Nevada, about his two-year tenure as the state’s top federal prosecutor. At the end of the show, health care reporter Megan Messerly gives us the latest data on the coronavirus pandemic in Nevada.

0:00 - Intro

0:52 - Homeless camp cleanups in Nevada

20:15 - Nick Trutanich, departing U.S. attorney for Nevada

31:40 - COVID-19 update

37:40 - Outro/Credits