Latest Nevada coronavirus Podcast Episodes

IMPACT with Jara

IMPACT - May 05, 2020 04:19 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Carrie Kaufman and Rebecca Garcia talk to Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara about visions for a better school system post-Coronavirus and the plan to reopen schools.

IMPACT of Ramadan

IMPACT - April 29, 2020 16:52 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Carrie Kaufman is joined by co-host Rebecca Colbert and by Athar Haseebullah, the chair of Masjid Ibrahim Mosque in Las Vegas. The topic? How can you possibly fast when you're stuck in your house in quarantine? And other tidbits about the importance of Ramadan, and of staying indoors.

IMPACT of Henderson's New Arts Building

IMPACT - April 18, 2020 17:04 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The Numbers: Today, April 17 2020: Worldwide number of deaths: 153,000 Worldwide Cases: 2.2 million  U.S. Deaths: Over 37,000 U.S. Cases: Just under 700,000 Nevada Deaths: 142 Nevada Cases: 3524 For context, New York numbers rose to 230,500 cases and over 17,000 deaths.   The News: Th...

IMPACT on the Latin Chamber

IMPACT - April 17, 2020 22:57 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Businesses have been shut in Nevada for a month now, and Governor Sisolak said today that he doesn’t know if Nevada will still be closed after April 30. He said, quite pointedly in his news conference today, that he is listening to the scientists and he will open the state when they say it is s...

IMPACT on Jails

IMPACT - April 16, 2020 17:17 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Carrie Kaufman and Andrea Cole talked to Nevada ACLU policy director Holly Welborn and Clark County deputy chief public defender, and former Assemblyman, John Piro about their bid to get non-violent prisoners released from county jails and state prisons. Conditions in prisons, they argue, don't a...

IMPACT of Race

IMPACT - April 09, 2020 17:18 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This is IMPACT. A daily look at how we are coping with the coronavirus in Nevada. I’m Carrie Kaufman. Why is this night different from all other nights? That’s a question that Jews all over the world ask every year at the Passover seder, which is happening tonight. The story of Passover is th...

IMPACT of Parenting and Working

IMPACT - April 07, 2020 17:38 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This is IMPACT. A daily look at how we are coping with the coronavirus in Nevada. I’m Carrie Kaufman. The parents are not all right. That’s the gist of a number of articles I have read recently and comments I have seen from parents in social media. We have a disconnect in this country between...

IMPACT of the Arts

IMPACT - April 04, 2020 11:44 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This is IMPACT. A daily look at how we are coping with the coronavirus in Nevada. I’m Carrie Kaufman. I spent the first half of my adult life doing, watching and writing about theatre. But I really spent those decades of the 90’s and aughts writing about life. PerformInk, which was the newspa...

IMPACT on Labor

IMPACT - April 03, 2020 16:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Health care workers are on the front lines of COVID 19. Especially at Clark County's one public hospital - University Medical Center. Which is why it came as such a surprise when Clark County Manager Yolanda King told SEIU today that the County would be suspending all union contracts till the e...

The IMPACT of ICE

IMPACT - April 02, 2020 23:51 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The Washington Post reported today that the Dept. of Homeland Security’s emergency stockpiles of protective gear are dangerously low. This includes gloves, face masks and other medical supplies. “The stockpile was designed to respond to a handful of cities,” a source told the Post. “It was neve...

Impact of Technology

IMPACT - March 31, 2020 22:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This is IMPACT. A daily look at how we are coping with the coronavirus in Nevada. I’m Carrie Kaufman. So I took some risk today. To get a story. Valley High School is handing Chromebooks and I went to talk to kids and to principal Ramona Esparza. I wore gloves and a mask. Upside down, apparentl...

Community Spirit and the IMPACT of the Coronavirus

IMPACT - March 29, 2020 05:18 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This is IMPACT. A daily look at how we are coping with the coronavirus in Nevada. I’m Carrie Kaufman. What can I do to help? No doubt, we’ve all asked that question without even thinking about it. When we walk in to a party and see the host scurrying around trying to get last minute cooking d...

Arts IMPACT - March 23, 2020

IMPACT - March 24, 2020 16:42 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The NEWS: CCSD Trustees held an emergency meeting this morning to take care of routine business that had routine due dates. State law requires meetings outside of the regular schedule to be labeled, "emergency." But we're in the middle of an actual emergency, and there is a lot of confusion an...

IMPACT on Journalists - March 20, 2020

IMPACT - March 21, 2020 12:39 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The CONVERSATION: Carrie is joined today by Andrea Strohm Cole of CCSD Parents to talk about  issues with teachers having to clock in and a New York Times piece on how coronavirus could overwhelm U.S. They also talk about confusion among teachers about what they are required to do with distanc...

Felicia Ortiz on Nevada Dept. of Ed and the Fast Moving IMPACT - March 19, 2020

IMPACT - March 20, 2020 11:36 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Felicia Ortiz joins Carrie Kaufman and today's co-hosts Akiko Cooks and Andrea Cole to talk about how the Nevada Department of Education is dealing with this coronavirus statewide shutdown. Two days before he announced the shutdown, Governor Sisolak announced that all schools throughout the sta...

Introducing IMPACT - March 18, 2020

IMPACT - March 19, 2020 11:16 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Every weekday, from 7 to 7:30pm, we will talk about how artists are making it, now that every show on the strip is closed. We will talk about education, now secondary schools are closed and colleges and universities are online only. We will talk about the economic impact from a personal perspect...