IndyMatters

This week on IndyMatters, host Joey Lovato chats with our Washington D.C. reporter Humberto Sanchez about the federal response to the novel coronavirus. They talk about the bills and measures that are being introduced, the measures that are being taken and the overall tone in the capital. 

After that, reporter and producer Jacob Solis talks with reporter Shannon Miller about how a bill working its way through Congress could change how we understand the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. 

And at the end of the episode, Joey talks with reporters Riley Snyder, Megan Messerly and Michelle Rindels about The Bachelor finale.

For weeks, the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus have ticked up across the United States. That included confirmed cases in a ring of states around Nevada, including Oregon, California, Arizona and Utah.

On Thursday, Nevada joined that list, confirming the first so-called “presumptive positive” test case, a Las Vegas man in his 50s. By that night, there was a second case in Reno.

On Sunday, local health officials confirmed another two cases — one in Washoe County and another in Clark County. 

The Washoe County Health District told the public to reconsider travel plans to affected areas to limit the possibility of bringing the virus back home. 

Several conventions and gatherings have been canceled in Las Vegas, but plenty of other public events are still moving ahead as scheduled. That includes the NFL Draft planned for next month, an event that drew a record 600,000 attendees last year in Nashville. 

The Nevada Independent’s Joey Lovato talked with Dr. Mark Pandori, the director of the state public health laboratory. Reporters Jacob Solis and Megan Messerly break down what we know about the coronavirus and how it is affecting Nevada.

This week on IndyMatters, reporter Jackie Valley talks with Drew Cohen, the co-owner of Writers Block, an independent bookstore in Las Vegas. They chat about literary trends and what people are reading at the start of 2020. After that intern, Shannon Miller talks with Ramon Savoy the former publisher/editor and reporter of the Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice, a newspaper serving the black communities in Las Vegas from 1982 to 2014. At the end of the show, editor Jon Ralston and host Joey Lovato chat about one of Jon’s favorite caucus memories.

This week on IndyMatters, reporter and producer Jacob Solis and Editor Jon Ralston give us a postmortem on the Nevada caucus. What went right, what went wrong and the future of the caucus here in the silver state. After that Jon sits down with Dr. Marc Harrison, the president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, a nonprofit healthcare system that serves the western United States. At the end of the episode, Jon answers some trivia questions that Jacob struggled with last week.

On Saturday, it finally happened: Nevada’s presidential caucus came and went, and it largely skirted past the vote-counting nightmare of the Iowa caucuses earlier this month. 

But it wasn’t all smooth sailing, either — and with announcements, this week from Gov. Steve Sisolak and former Sen. Harry Reid that may spell doom for future caucuses, Nevada's 2020 effort will likely form a coda to the 12-year-long, first-in-the-west caucus era. 

As the national media turns its attention to South Carolina and the coming delegate wave of Super Tuesday, The Nevada Independent wanted to give one last look to a few of the dozens of Nevada voters who spoke to our team before and after the caucuses.

In this audio story, Multimedia Editor Joey Lovato and Reporter Jacob Solis walk through some of the voter voices that punctuated The Independent's caucus coverage.