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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Alzheimer’s is a degenerative brain disease that has touched millions of lives in this country. One in nine people over 65 have Alzheimer's — almost 7 million people. -
Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, people still talk about it. There are pre-pandemic and "post-pandemic" conditions, especially when it comes to social, economic, and political changes. -
At a news conference Thursday, law enforcement officials revealed the name of the suspect in the March 18 fire at a Tesla collision center in Las Vegas. -
Hockey, basketball, football. What's the latest in Las Vegas professional sports? -
Right now, by the estimates of some business owners — and they are happy about this — maybe seven out of every 10 customers in the Arts District in downtown Las Vegas are tourists. -
For a metro area of a little more than 2 million people, Las Vegas has more than its fair share of news. -
It was March 12, 2020, when Governor Steve Sisolak announced a state of emergency in Nevada in response to the growing infections and deaths from COVID-19. -
The report says that over the last 20 years, employers — many times these are unregistered businesses or even homes where people work as cleaners or caretakers — the estimated theft from minimum wage workers amounts to more than $2 billion. -
Homelessness is growing throughout Nevada, but especially in Clark County. -
Today, maybe more than any time in recent memory, the arts are taking center stage because of potential cuts to funding throughout the country, including Nevada.
