Joe Schoenmann
Host/Senior ProducerJoe Schoenmann joined Nevada Public Radio in 2014. He works with a talented team of producers at State of Nevada who explore the casino industry, sports, politics, public health and everything in between.
Prior to joining KNPR, he worked in newspapers and magazines in Wisconsin, then in Nevada at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas Sun and Las Vegas Life magazine. He’s won awards for investigative reporting, feature writing and deadline reporting, and has written a little-known book looking at a Vegas hitman and his son through the eyes of the son’s mother.
A Midwest native, Joe graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After a stint as a janitor, he turned to journalism. A Las Vegas resident since 1997, he spends his free time with friends, writing unproduced scripts, and observing life’s rich pageant.
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It’s called St. Baldrick’s Day (a mashup of “bald” and “St Patrick’s”). On that day, cities and businesses throughout the country hold a special event where volunteers who have collected donors shave their heads.
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We do have a film incentive program here, but it’s small. So a year ago, a bill was introduced to create big tax incentives for film production. That died, but it'll be back next year.
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The struggle between management and unions an ever-present issue in Nevada.
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Plans and ideas for redevelopment off the Strip are taking shape. That includes an “electric village” downtown, and plans for a public-private mental health campus on Charleston Boulevard.
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A cover-up in the Henderson Police Department and two big stories revolving around matters in local police departments emerged in last week.
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A key legal decision by Nevada’s Supreme Court could help to better manage and conserve our groundwater.
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Even in a city as news rich as Las Vegas, last week was over the top.
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Democrats threw almost all votes to President Joe Biden. No one voted for Donald Trump, because he didn’t participate. And “none of the above” beat Republican candidate Nikki Haley.
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We just got through the first month of the year, but already Las Vegas police are issuing a warning: road deaths are going up.
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It’s already been two months since the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus shooting in early December that left three professors dead and one seriously injured.