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IMPACT
by Carrie Kaufman
A daily look at the impact of the coronavirus on the lives of Nevadans through a social, educational and economic lens. We'll look at how people are responding to each other, and how they are creating new lives in times of crisis.
Episodes
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IMPACT on Anti-Racism
Carrie Kaufman talked with Akiko Cooks and her son Corey, who was one of the high schoolers targeted for assassination at Arbor View High School in 2019. She also talked with Jenna Roberts and her daughter Bella, who were part of a coalition that helped pass a CCSD gender diversity policy in 2018.
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IMPACT on Student Losers
Bailey Middle School got an answer from CCSD CFO Jason Goudie about why they have almost $400,000 less in their budget. And it's not a good one.
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Legislative Update: Housing and Criminal Justice
Carrie Kaufman talks to Nevada Current reporter Michael Lyle about the housing and criminal justice bills he's seeing come up in the 2021 Nevada Legislative Session. It's a pretty progressive session, making small changes with big impacts.
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Progressives Take Over Nevada Democratic Party
Wherein Chris G takes on Nicole Cannizzaro, CCSD, challenges Legislative Dems to put their money where their mouth is, and progressives to focus on the boring organizational stuff and offers training for both Republicans and Democrats for free. We are also joined by Leisa Moseley, who was the...
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IMPACT on Pahrump - 2
Pahrump resident Sara Walker jumped in last March and started making masks. Carrie checks in with her again to see how her year has been. Short answer... not that great. But she's still giving back.
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IMPACT on Traffic Violations
Two bills are making their way through the Assembly right now that will have a big impact on how we handle traffic violations. AB116, introduced by District 10 Assemblywoman Rochelle Wwyn, would make traffic violations - and their attendant fees - a civil rather than a criminal violation. That...
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IMPACT on Data Insights
Back in October - you know, when we had nothing to do and weren’t stressing about the future of the free world - Nathan Trenholm and Justin White filed a lawsuit against the Clark County School District. Trenholm and White are the proprietors of Data Insight Partners, which contracts with school...
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IMPACT on Stealing Data and Death
Carrie talks with Nathan Trenholm and Justing White about their legal complaint against the Clark County School District, as well as Leisa Moseley and Assemblywoman Rochelle Nguyen about decriminalizing traffic tickets. But first... we check in with a former guest in Pahrump who has dedicated…
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IMPACT on DETR
Carrie talks to Elisa Cafferata, the new director of the Dept. of Employment and Rehabilitation about how real unemployment and fraud crippled DETR's ability to react to the pandemic.
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IMPACT on Election Day Challenges
Attorney Daniel Stewart with Hutchison and Steffen explains the lawsuits filed in Nevada by the Trump campaign on the day of and in the aftermath of the election.
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IMPACT on the Election
The entire world has been watching Nevada, and figuring out how to say our state’s name. But as much as Las Vegas has a reputation as a fast paced, now or never kind of place, our approach to counting ballots is slow and steady. Accuracy before speed. And we have new heroes. Steve Kornaki’s...
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IMPACT on Teen Suicide
Carrie's Intro: This week started out for me with my phone blowing up over a story from the New York Times. Erica Green, one of their education reporters, wrote a story on student suicides and other mental health issues during the pandemic. Clark County School District was front and center. Green...
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IMPACT Legislative Preview
Carrie Kaufman talked with Nevada Current reporters Dana Gentry, Michael Lyle and April Corbin about what they expect from the Nevada legislative session, which starts Feb. 1.
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IMPACT of Legislative Education Agenda
The next Nevada legislative session starts Feb. 1, 2021, and education issues will be front and center. Not only has the pandemic decimated education funding sources - which are heavily reliant on tourism - but a new funding formula was put in place during the 2019 session, and a funding…
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IMPACT of Insurrection
In the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the Capitol building, Carrie talks to Congresswoman Susie Lee, who was evacuated from her office. Then we have a discussion with Chris Guinchigliani, Pete Simi, Leisa Mosely and Tiffiany Howard about domestic terrorism and if the U.S. is a failed state.
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IMPACT on Pandemic Teaching
Carrie had an hour-long conversation with five teachers about the things they've learned, what they have done for their students, and the obstacles they've had to deal with during the pandemic. A great peak at what REALLY goes on behind the scenes in teaching.
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IMPACT of the Science and Protest
Carrie talks with University Medical Center CEO Mason VanHoweling about the delivery of the vaccine, and with Idaho Statesman editor in chief Christina Lords, who gives us some insight on protesters harassing local politicians - and journalists.
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IMPACT of Homelessness
Carrie Kaufman talks with the Nevada Current's Michael Lyle about the razing of a homeless encampment in downtown Las Vegas. Then she chats with incoming CCSD Trustee Evelyn Garcia Morales. And the League of Women Voters' Nevada chapter has been disbanded. CSN professor - and IMPACT contributor -...
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IMPACT of Speech
The Clark County School District uploaded a new policy document just before Thanksgiving, but didn't tell anyone. The document limited the free speech of CCSD employees. A First Amendment Lawyer in Chicago happened to find it. He wrote a Twitter thread that shocked people involved with CCSD. On...
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IMPACT of COVID on Reimagining Education
As a follow-up to Carrie Kafuman's column in the Nevada Current, Dana Gentry wrote a piece exploring the suicide numbers in Nevada. Alas, 14 students have died by suicide this year. That's four more than last year. But six less than 2018, when CCSD lost 20 students to suicide. We talk with Dana…
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IMPACT of the Election
Carrie Kaufman talks to Sondra Cosgrove, Leisa Mosely, Cecia Alvarado, and Sarah O'Connell about who turned out and what the election of 2020 means for our immediate future in Nevada.
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IMPACT of Women
It would seem at first blush that working from home might be a boon to women - especially women who endure toxic workplace culture. But it turns out the pandemic has done harm to women. Last month, 865,000 women left the workforce. Only 216,000 men did. The trend line is down for all of us, but...
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IMPACT on Voter Safety
What will happen if a "militia" shows up to a polling place and tries to block people from voting? What if we sign our ballots incorrectly? When will our votes be counted? Carrie asked Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria and Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Wayne Thorley to ease her troubled...
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IMPACT on Intimidation: Extremism and the Future
Extremism experts Pete Simi and Vegas Tenold Zoomed with Carrie Kaufman to chat about the Proud Boys, Antifa, the makeup of supremacist groups, and what they see happening after the election. It's a sobering conversation. But a much needed one.
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IMPACT on Intimidation
Vegas Tenold spent years as an investigative journalist, reporting on right-wing extremists. Today, he's an investigator for the Anti-Defamation League's Center for Extremism. He wrote the book Everything You Love Will Burn. Chapman University sociology professor Pete Simi spent six years…
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Two Extremism Experts on What Will Happen AFTER the Election
I sat down for a longer conversation with Pete Simi - who embedded himself with right-wing extremist groups to write "American Swastika" - and Vegas Tenold, who wrote, "Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the rebirth of white nationalism in America." This is the last question I asked them.…
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Akiko Cooks on Being Black in America
Links for this segment: Officers Not Charged in Breonna Taylor's Death Black Police Officer Charged in Killing of White Australian Woman Black Mother Stands Between Her Son and a Cop
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IMPACT of Breonna Taylor
Carrie Kaufman talks real estate and a new arts study that shows how much COVID has really impacted Las Vegas. And Akiko Cooks shares her feelings about the world in the wake of the decision not to charge the officers who killed Breonna Taylor.
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IMPACT of Real Estate
Carrie Kaufman talked with Nevada Current journalist Dana Gentry and Frank Nothaft, chief economist at CoreLogic about real estate prices in Las Vegas - which have weathered the pandemic pretty well. So far. Nothaft thinks they are headed for a nosedive within a year.
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IMPACT on Inclusivity and the Oscars
Links from this episode: Coronavirus might have been in California as early as December Steve Nash, the NBA and White Privilege WGA West Report on Inclusivity in Hollywood Open Letter to Hollywood Michelle Amor Gilles New Oscar Best Picture Rules
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IMPACT of Performing Arts
CCSD's performing arts programs are some of the best in the country. Carrie Kaufman talked with CCSD performing arts director Jeff Williams about how his teachers and students are adjusting to online learning.
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Sisolak's Pre-Labor Day Coronavirus Warning - Anotated
A 5-minuted version of Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak's pre-Labor Day press conference - with a bit of commentary.
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IMPACT of First Week
Three sites, donated by Stations Casinos are up and running for free coronavirus testing - through April 18. The sites are at Texas Station in the north and Fiesta Casino in Henderson. Sam Boyd Stadium is also doing testing. And there is a testing site in Mesquite. The effort is a partnership...
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James Bilbray on the Postal Service
Did you know that the U.S. Postal Service can't deliver liquor? Those wine clubs... all delivered by UPS or FedEx. Former Congressman James Bilbray - who was on the Postal Commission that oversees the USPS - says that no liquor delivery is a prohibition-era rule, but that every time our…
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IMPACT of States Rights and Voting
Carrie Kaufman talked with Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford about how federal changes regarding mail-in ballots impact states rights. Nevada has joined one of several lawsuits against the U.S. Postal Service. We also gained a wealth of knowledge on the topic from former Congressman James…
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IMPACT of the Postal Service
Carrie Kaufman talks with Senator Jacky Rosen, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee that heard from Postal Inspector Louis DeJoy. Rosen grilled DeJoy during the meeting. We also go over voting logistics with the head of Mi Familia Vota and the League of Women Voters of Nevada.
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IMPACT with Jacky Rosen and the Postal Service
Sat down with Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen a couple of hours after the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, in which she grilled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
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IMPACT on Fixing Unemployment
Barbara Buckley has been tapped to lead a task force to untangle some of the roadblocks that are keeping people from getting unemployment. The biggest roadblock she has identified? Fraud. Remember that Target data breach? Or the Experian one? Fraudsters are using that info now.
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IMPACT on Guitars for Students
You can donate a guitar or donate money to buy guitars to Paul Kleemann at: Amazon Wish List: https://bit.ly/dsaguitarwish or Donate to Guitar Program: https://bit.ly/dsaguitardonate If you have another instrument - say that clarinet you played in high school, but has been gathering dust for the...
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IMPACT on Producers Alliance
Producers Alliance of Southern Nevada
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IMPACT on Housing
Help, Hope, Home - Housing Assitance Program Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada
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IMPACT on Housing, DETR and Local Arts
Links for this episode: Barbara Buckley Named to Form DETR Task Force Elissa Cafferata Named Third New DETR Chief in Five months Producers Alliance of Southern Nevada Help, Hope, Home Clark County Housing Assitance The LEAP Commission, Nevada Pandemic Response MOLODI - Jason Nious If you wish to...
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IMPACT on Important People
Nevada's second special legislative session of 2020 drew some contentious discussions - about criminal justice reforms (lawmakers didn't think they went far enough, but voted for the bill anyway), about DETR (technical fixes that most lawmakers can't even name), about voting (that's clear, but…
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Challenges to Mail-In Voting
Carrie Kaufman talks to election law specialist Daniel Stewart about the Trump campaign's lawsuit on mail ballots, with the Nevada Legislature approved last month.
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IMPACT Addition - CCSD Meeting Montage
This is an addendum to Episode 62: Impact on School Schedules and Mining Tax
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IMPACT on School Schedules and Mining Tax
This is Impact. I’m Carrie Kaufman. The special legislative session is over. The Clark County School Board is in disarray. COVID 19 rates are soaring so high in Nevada - especially Southern Nevada - that we are being grouped in with states like Florida. I hate when we get grouped with Florida. As...
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IMPACT on Trust Issues
Trust. Everybody says it’s the key to true democracy, and relationships. But it seems to be pretty elusive these days. Especially in Nevada, where the trust meter went off the scale this week. First, we were shown emails that showed CCSD Supt. Jesus Jara asking for the legislature to consider...
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IMPACT of School Funding and Distance Education
What a year this week was. TWO Clark County School Board meetings about a reopening plan. The start of the legislative special session. Gov. Sisolak re-establishing some phase 1 COVID protocols. We explore it all on IMPACT.
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IMPACT Weekly - Coronavirus Numbers and A Talk With Dreamer Norma Ramirez
We’re starting our weekly show today with an update on the coronavirus, and a look at other issues in the news. And there’s a lot going on. Monuments are coming down all over the country. And a lot of white people - and some Black and Brown people - are learning for the first time about how…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A daily look at the impact of the coronavirus on the lives of Nevadans through a social, educational and economic lens. We'll look at how people are responding to each other, and how they are creating new lives in times of crisis.
HOSTED BY
Carrie Kaufman
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A daily look at the impact of the coronavirus on the lives of Nevadans through a social, educational and economic lens. We'll look at how people are responding to each other, and how they are creating new lives in times of crisis.
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