This Is Reno Radio

This Is Reno
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This Is Reno Radio

This Is Reno Radio is a podcast from Reno, Nevada featuring news, interviews, analysis and more. The host is Bob Conrad, This Is Reno's publisher and editor.

  1. MAR 8

    Double dipping and big spending in the Biggest Little City, part 2

    This episode is the second podcast in a two-part series. Kristen Hackbarth and Bob Conrad discuss the recent This Is Reno investigation Kristen did into spending at Reno City Hall. After months of digging, getting public records and combing through large amounts of information, we published a voluminous ten-part series about what we found.This Is Reno subscribers got access to this podcast before anybody else. If you value local, independent journalism and appreciate Kristen’s extensive work ...

    43 min

  2. MAR 8

    Double dipping and big spending in the Biggest Little City, part 1

    This episode is our first podcast in more than a year. Kristen Hackbarth and Bob Conrad discuss the recent This Is Reno investigation Kristen did into spending at Reno City Hall. After months of digging, getting public records and combing through large amounts of information, we published a voluminous ten-part series about what we found.This Is Reno subscribers got access to this podcast before anybody else. If you value local, independent journalism and appreciate Kristen’s extensive work in...

    43 min
  3. Edward Coleman discusses Reno’s new Black Community Collective

    11/19/2022

    Edward Coleman discusses Reno’s new Black Community Collective

    Edward Coleman is the executive director of a new Reno nonprofit called the Black Community Collective. In today’s show we discuss why he started the collective and why it is needed in the greater Reno community. We also discuss some of his recent efforts including his work on the City of Reno’s charter committee – and what he thought of how the Reno City Council responded to that committee’s proposals in August. This show is also available on KWNK Community Radio in Reno.Learn more...

    30 min
  4. A brain-health clinic is helping revolutionize mental health treatment

    11/04/2022

    A brain-health clinic is helping revolutionize mental health treatment

    The testimonials that Epic Brain Centers of Reno provide are hard to believe. Some of the anecdotes include those diagnosed with depression seeing results in few treatments. Other testimonials show people quickly recovering from conditions such as addiction and anxiety. For this episode, I visited the Epic Brain Centers clinic in Reno. The clinic and the technology it uses are potentially revolutionary. Similar brain health treatments are being conducted across the country, unrelated to ...

    30 min
  5. Reno Food Systems is growing a vision

    10/16/2022

    Reno Food Systems is growing a vision

    Lyndsey Langsdale helps to run the Reno Food Systems farm on Mayberry Drive. The nonprofit operation has been in business since 2018. For today’s show we talk with Lyndsey about her vision for the farm. I visited Reno Food Systems in the fall as the farm was still harvesting produce, volunteers and staff were weeding and the farm was preparing for the winter. Lyndsey describes the purpose of the farm being a “vibrant, resilient, and just local food system cultivated by an empowered ...

    30 min
  6. Addiction treatment facility needs more resources to meet community demands

    09/30/2022

    Addiction treatment facility needs more resources to meet community demands

    One of the Reno area’s few substance use, and gambling, addiction treatment facilities is the Bristlecone Recovery Center. The nonprofit is named after bristlecone pine, a tree found in Nevada, Utah and California.The center uses this analogy: This remarkable tree can fully regenerate itself, even on the brink of death. Just like the Bristlecone Pine, the people who seek help at our facility for addiction, gambling, and mental health issues have experienced negative environments, weathered ma...

    30 min
  7. What Reno can learn from the Netherlands

    09/18/2022

    What Reno can learn from the Netherlands

    The Dutch Cycling Embassy came to Reno in September. They were here to discuss how the Netherlands became bike centric and to help the Biggest Little City’s cycling efforts. The Truckee Meadows Bicycle Alliance helped organize the Embassy’s visit.For this episode, we spoke with people who attended the Think Bike workshops, as well as members of the cycling embassy, including Margot Daris and Dick Vanveen.The group hosted a discussion at Craft where they played the "Together We Cycle" document...

    30 min
  8. Dying ducks and seniors getting shafted

    09/04/2022

    Dying ducks and seniors getting shafted

    The heat of summer is one of the causes for why ducks and geese are dying at area ponds.In this show, we hear from a wildlife veterinarian who explains why botulism is suspected in the regional water bodies, and how that is impacting waterfowl.We also hear from an advocate for local senior citizens. She said people were taken by surprise when they learned the city of Reno was making plans to lease out a senior gathering space to a local nonprofit.Also, acting Chancellor of the Nevada Sy...

    30 min
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This Is Reno Radio is a podcast from Reno, Nevada featuring news, interviews, analysis and more. The host is Bob Conrad, This Is Reno's publisher and editor.

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  • Creator
    This Is Reno
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2024
  • Episodes
    75
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    © 2024 Conrad Communications
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