IndyMatters

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 Elizabeth Thompson do a segment of IndyReads for all of our listeners stuck at home looking for a good book.

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, including helping the state public health lab with the production of COVID-19 collection kits. At the end of the show, Joey and Jacob talk about a few streamable hidden gems if you’ve run out of movies and shows to watch while social distancing at home.

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 about how the health lab is developing new collection kits for testing COVID-19. At the end of the episode editor Jon Ralston, producer and reporter Jacob Solis, guest and fellow podcaster Fil Corbitt and Joey all talk about their new favorite show, Tiger King!

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 reporter/producer Jacob Solis go over some free things to do online to get you through quarantine.

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 Krisyn Leonard talk about a resource guide that we have made to help people in need during the pandemic.