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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The popularity of summer biking, hiking, birding and boating — and just getting outdoors — is growing in Southern Nevada. -
Nevada is the only state in the country where some form of sex work or prostitution is legal. In counties with fewer than 700,000 people, brothels have been legal since the early 1970s. -
The mayor joins KNPR's State of Nevada to discuss new development, the city's budget, homelessness and much more. -
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The director of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles explains how to get a Real ID. -
Wednesday's guest is Chris Giunchigliani and it’s our open mic show, where your thoughts and topics lead the conversation. And that’s what this is: we’re sitting and talking about what’s happening in Nevada. -
In a world filled with tariffs, rising and falling stocks, and overall economic uncertainty, what's the best way to stay financially on track? -
As lawmakers in Washington D.C., look to reduce a $36 trillion national debt, how could Nevada’s mental health care services be affected? -
After weeks of tariff changes, and the resulting market dips, Americans are terrified of looking at their 401ks, prices are fluctuating for just about everything and consumer confidence hasn't been this low since the pandemic. -
How are you feeling about everything happening to us these days? The politics of Washington, D.C., and the effects already being felt in Nevada, with more to be expected?
