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This Is Reno Radio is a podcast from Reno, Nevada featuring news, interviews, analysis and more. The hosts are Bob Conrad and Kristen Hackbarth, This Is Reno's editors.

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87 episodes

Reno News: Deputy DA fired, auditor hit with restraining order and AI facial recognition fail prompts lawsuit

S2025 • E9 • 40:51 • Nov 19, 2025
Reno's budget shortfalls, homelessness downtown and the TMCC lawsuit settlement explained

S2025 • E10 • 37:07 • Dec 6, 2025
Reno in Review: The issues and people who shaped 2025

S2025 • E11 • 48:51 • Jan 2, 2026
Affordable housing in Reno: What residents and records reveal about FPI Management

S2026 • E1 • 37:16 • Jan 24, 2026
COVID-19: The Government’s Not Coming To Save Us

22:49 • Mar 25, 2020
Heat, Turf and Tensions: This week in local Reno news

S2025 • E7 • 32:04 • Nov 2, 2025
The price of ribs and Burner trash

S2025 • E1 • 31:07 • Sep 15, 2025
Sewer rate hike proposal stalls after public outcry; city survey reveals negative views of downtown Reno

S2025 • E5 • 40:47 • Oct 17, 2025
Police transparency fight reaches Nevada’s high court, that data center meeting and cuts to LGBTQ+ funding

S2025 • E4 • 31:13 • Oct 10, 2025
Lear Theater confusion, NV Energy refunds and Reno’s vanishing data-center meeting

S2025 • E3 • 44:53 • Oct 4, 2025
Sparks fly in Sparks: UPS complaints, a Burning Man lawsuit and Reno’s ACAB moment

S2025 • E2 • 29:19 • Sep 26, 2025
Edward Coleman discusses Reno’s new Black Community Collective

S2022 • E21 • 30:00 • Nov 19, 2022
Double dipping and big spending in the Biggest Little City, part 2

S2024 • E2 • 43:13 • Mar 8, 2024
Double dipping and big spending in the Biggest Little City, part 1

S2024 • E1 • 43:16 • Mar 8, 2024
A brain-health clinic is helping revolutionize mental health treatment

S2022 • E20 • 30:00 • Nov 4, 2022
Addiction treatment facility needs more resources to meet community demands

S2022 • E18 • 30:00 • Sep 30, 2022
Reno Food Systems is growing a vision

S2022 • E19 • 30:00 • Oct 16, 2022
What Reno can learn from the Netherlands

S2022 • E17 • 30:00 • Sep 18, 2022
Dying ducks and seniors getting shafted

S2022 • E16 • 30:00 • Sep 4, 2022
Meet the new superintendent of Washoe County schools

S2022 • E15 • 30:01 • Aug 19, 2022
Federal lands transfer on hold, the downtown bike track and a robot mixologist

S2022 • E13 • 30:00 • Jul 25, 2022
A renewed love for local music

S2022 • E12 • 30:00 • Jul 8, 2022
Behind Reno’s whip ban, an interview

S2022 • E11 • 30:00 • Jun 24, 2022
“There’s nothing to keep teachers in the classroom”

S2022 • E10 • 30:00 • Jun 4, 2022
A psychiatric treatment facility is opening in a Reno neighborhood

S2022 • E9 • 30:00 • May 22, 2022
Photojournalist Ty O’Neil on covering the Ukrainian war

S2022 • E7 • 30:01 • Apr 23, 2022
City of Reno cracks down on trivia games at local bars

S2022 • E8 • 30:04 • May 6, 2022
Washoe County beats down illegal voting resolution

S2022 • E5 • 30:09 • Mar 25, 2022
The return of the lands bill, sort of

S2022 • E2 • 30:08 • Feb 11, 2022
Dr. Alicia Barber talks development and the Powning District

16:22 • Apr 9, 2021
Reno Reflects on Black Lives Matter

07:00 • Jul 4, 2020
Reno responds to George Floyd's death

07:01 • Jun 11, 2020
Care facility in Sparks faces state investigation after patient deaths, COVID-19 spike

07:00 • May 23, 2020
COVID-19: Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak Announces Statewide Business Closures

18:06 • Mar 18, 2020
COVID-19: How the City of Reno is handling complaints about businesses

07:01 • May 17, 2020
Nurses protest Saint Mary's Hospital over working conditions

06:47 • May 8, 2020
COVID-19: Getting Nevadans back to work

07:01 • May 2, 2020
COVID-19: When do businesses in Reno get to reopen?

07:01 • Apr 24, 2020
COVID-19: Arrests are down, way down

07:00 • Apr 10, 2020
COVID-19: Businesses close, law enforcement steps up patrols

08:11 • Mar 21, 2020
COVID-19: This month’s going to be really tough

07:01 • Apr 3, 2020
How Reno is grappling with COVID-19

22:46 • Mar 18, 2020
Why the city wants to reduce special events funding

09:12 • Mar 3, 2020
Coronavirus reaches Reno, City conducts massive sweep of homeless camps

08:36 • Mar 9, 2020
The return of the lands bill, Reno says goodbye to former mayor

05:30 • Feb 25, 2020
This Is Reno interviews Congressman Mark Amodei (full interview)

107:21 • Dec 12, 2019
Presidential Candidate Amy Klobuchar Visits Reno

34:59 • Jan 5, 2020
Elizabeth Warren Reno Press Conference December 10, 2019

07:20 • Dec 12, 2019
What's next for The City?

38:06 • Nov 29, 2019
Two Chicks (Haley Moseley and Jessie Henderson)

03:39 • Nov 28, 2019
Junkee Clothing & Exchange (Jessica Schneider)

04:42 • Nov 27, 2019
Shea's Tavern (Lacey Shea and Momo Mendoza)

05:24 • Nov 27, 2019
Black Hole Body Piercing (Angela Watson)

08:22 • Nov 27, 2019
Tackling global climate change from the local level

21:02 • Oct 4, 2019
Solutions Season 2, Epsisode 4: The Stabbing

35:51 • Dec 4, 2018
Literature and Poetry in the Biggest Little City

15:17 • Jul 27, 2019
The Reno Theater Scene

18:20 • Jul 27, 2019
Reno's Do-It-Yourself Music Scene

23:02 • Jul 27, 2019
Promoting the Arts in Reno

40:10 • Jul 26, 2019
Solutions Season 2, Episode 1: Maladjusted Youth

34:14 • Oct 8, 2018
The successes and challenges of being downtown Reno ambassador

S2022 • E14 • 30:00 • Aug 6, 2022
Solutions 05: Season Finale

26:27 • Jan 2, 2018
Solutions Season 2 Preview: Hoff, The Killing of a Cop

02:14 • Oct 1, 2018
54: How To and Why You Should Get Rid of Your Stuff

36:13 • Apr 15, 2018
53: Behind The Scenes sat FORTE Awards

16:29 • Nov 4, 2017
Solutions 04: If We Don’t Build It, They Will Die

24:44 • Nov 8, 2017
52: The Latest on Affordable Healthcare in Nevada

28:47 • Sep 26, 2017
51: Trump Came To Town

25:08 • Aug 25, 2017
50: The Artown Edition

25:36 • Jul 15, 2017
Solutions 03: Housing and The Rise of The Homeless

22:10 • Jun 12, 2017
Solutions Season 2, Episode 3: The Setup

33:20 • Nov 5, 2018
Deep inside COVID-19 testing

07:01 • Apr 17, 2020
Black Wall Street rising

S2022 • E4 • 30:02 • Mar 13, 2022
Biden administration wants to undo landmark ruling that found criminal immigration law unconstitutional

S2022 • E3 • 30:07 • Feb 25, 2022
Reno’s housing challenges persist

S2022 • E1 • 30:08 • Jan 31, 2022
University of Nevada President Brian Sandoval: his vision and legislation affecting Nevada higher education

14:13 • Apr 17, 2021
48: Inside the Legislation that Protects Historic Cemeteries

25:03 • May 24, 2017
Pulse Nightclub shooting survivor Brandon Wolf speaks in Reno

10:56 • Jan 15, 2020
This week in Reno news: Independent media in Nev.

15:53 • Feb 18, 2020
Solutions Season 2, Espisode 2: They Called Him Jimmy

35:53 • Oct 22, 2018
Cathy Woods to get $3 million settlement from City of Reno after wrongful conviction

19:48 • Aug 12, 2020
Sup (Kasey Christensen)

10:03 • Dec 2, 2019
Higher ed spats leave Nevada universities and colleges without a chancellor

S2022 • E6 • 30:01 • Apr 8, 2022
Local experts answer questions about COVID-19 vaccines

42:51 • Apr 24, 2021
49: Why is Marijuana Illegal?

23:02 • Jun 19, 2017
Former Reno cop arrested in HEAT sting and the ‘No Kings’ rally: Reno’s top stories this week

S2025 • E6 • 30:44 • Oct 24, 2025
Reno News Roundup: GPS tracker lawsuit update, EV fee discussions and our beleaguered downtown

S2025 • E8 • 32:54 • Nov 12, 2025