IndyMatters

On this week’s IndyMatters episode reporters Riley Snyder and Michelle Rindels sit down with Bailey Bortolin from Washoe Legal Services and later with Keith Lynam, the president of the Nevada Association of REALTORS® to talk about tenants rights and eviction legislation that just went into effect. After that, Michelle talks a bit about an opioid addiction forum in Las Vegas last week.

In this week's episode, you’ll hear a rundown of a few of the big stories we published on the site this week from multimedia editor Joey Lovato. Then reporter Michelle Rindels sits down with the Executive Director of the Nevada Board of Massage Therapy, Sandy Anderson, to talk about sex trafficking in the industry. Later on, Michelle and reporter Riley Snyder sit down to discuss Riley’s story about a big lawsuit challenging cash bail.

We are back from break! On this week’s episode of IndyMatters Editor Jon Ralston sits down with reporter Megan Messerly to chat about the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Democratic candidate forum that Jon co-moderated with Huffington Post Washington Bureau Chief Amanda Terkel. They chat about the different candidates and how they responded to a broad swath of questions. Later in the episode Managing Editor Elizabeth Thompson sits down with Jon to talk about gun control in the wake of several mass shootings that took place in the last few weeks.

Editor Jon Ralston and reporters Megan Messerly and Jacob Solis sat down with Congressman Steven Horsford this week to talk about a variety of topics including possible impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, Medicare-for-all and fixing the health care system.

The podcast is on its summer break, but we still wanted to talk about some of the stories The Nevada Independent published this past week. In this episode, Managing Editor Elizabeth Thompson and intern Michaela Chesin parse through her recent reporting on a civil lawsuit brought by 11 marijuana companies who say the state unfairly doled out dispensary licenses last December. They also talk about some of Michaela's other recent stories including teenage charity founder Kyler Nipper.