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 debate is over about climate change. The question is, is anyone really doing anything about it? Does that keep you awake at night? -
Stories say we’ll be at 5 million people by 2050, that 115 people are moving here a day, and Clark County is the number one destination for homeowners looking for a place to move. -
The forum is yours. Whatever you want to talk about, within FCC guidelines, we want to hear it. So what keeps you up at night? -
After a lull, the wide world of sports is about to burst onto the Nevada landscape. -
Longtime Las Vegas reporter George Knapp attended the U.S. Congressional hearing on UFO's last week. What was it about? Does this bring us any closer to disproving or proving alien existence? And does the U.S. have anything to do with it? -
Regular listeners have heard me say this before: our roads are dangerous. And new analysis of crash numbers show that high speed maybe the biggest culprit. -
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When he lived, Tony Hsieh was one of the most followed, yet enigmatic business figures in the world. -
It's open mic Monday, call us and tell us what you're thinking about. -
In modern times, states fund job training, hoping that putting people to work will overcome economic need, which often leads to homelessness.
