Joe Schoenmann
Downtown Las Vegas Reporter
A native Wisconsinite, Joe earned a journalism degree to get out of college early but wanted none of the craft after graduation. Need for a job landed him at small Wisconsin weeklies before moving to Las Vegas in 1997. He has been recognized for his magazine profiles and his investigative stories that exposed police bias against minorities.
Call Joe at 702-455-6175.
Recent Stories (view all stories)
- Joe Downtown: Muralist completes touchup on shuttered Western hotel
- Monday, June 17, 2013
- For a building that will be near the center of a 15-block festival of life’s beauty, the Western Hotel, something of an eyesore even when it was operational, seems somewhat out of place.
- Joe Downtown: Latest 5K run ideas include squirt guns and striptease
- Saturday, June 15, 2013
- As a not-so-popular teenager, she took up running. When the other kids saw she was good at it, high school life became easier. Almost two decades later, Tanya Carrier is convinced running is a catalyst for positive change.
- Joe Downtown: Volunteers share load in 'do-acracy' to move along effort to save historic theater
- Friday, June 14, 2013
- Many times over the past decade or more, taxpayers and individuals have tried to save the Huntridge Theater. Nevada has given more than $1 million to, among other repairs, fix its caved-in roof. Yet for almost a decade, the place has remained in mothballs and fallen further into disrepair. Even the most stalwart historians seemed to abandon hope of saving the building, for one, because it’s so large, and secondly because of the enormous cost to do so. But then, most historians aren’t David Anderson. Or Chris O’Connell, Nicole Sligar, Melissa Clary, Brian “Paco” Alvarez, Kathleen D’Esposito Kahr or a group of others who have thrown themselves into the thankless task of volunteering their time to bring the Huntridge back to life.
- Joe Downtown: Where casino project could have been, the Arts District is growing
- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- Massive condo development Juhl will soon open its first retail outlet.
- Joe Downtown: Downtown Project has plans for new metered parking lot
- Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- One lot closes and another one maneuvers to open. A week ago, an Arkansas physician hung no-parking signs and fenced in a gravel lot downtown that had been used for years by workers and others because it offered free parking.
- Joe Downtown: Bunkhouse Saloon closing for 60 days for 'repositioning'
- Tuesday, June 11, 2013
- Beginning July 1, the Bunkhouse Saloon will close for 60 days, giving time for Downtown Project investors who purchased the property time to refresh the space.
- Joe Downtown: More than 200 people expected for this month's llama parade
- Tuesday, June 11, 2013
- The llama parade is growing. Organizers of the parade, sponsored by Zappos, expect about 230 people – led by a llama – to march from Fremont Street to Cashman Field for Friday night’s game between the Las Vegas 51s and the Colorado Springs Sky Sox.
- Joe Downtown: Two injured in early Saturday shooting under Fremont Street Experience, police report
- Monday, June 10, 2013
- As expected on a First Friday night, the hordes descended upon eastern Fremont Street. With an added police presence though, little trouble beyond a few skirmishes occurred in the burgeoning Fremont East Entertainment District, sources said.
- Joe Downtown: Newly installed fencing cuts off free parking in oft-used lot
- Monday, June 10, 2013
- Parking choices in downtown Las Vegas just got a bit slimmer. The free parking lot at Ogden Avenue and Sixth Street, owned by a doctor from Arkansas, was fenced over the weekend with signs warning vehicles parking there would be towed.
- Joe Downtown: Entrepreneur reboots plans, now will plant seeds for 3-D printing greenhouse
- Saturday, June 8, 2013
- A new technology has changed Craig Adkins' plans to build a shoe factory in downtown Las Vegas. Advancements in 3-D printing now have him thinking Vegas should catch the wave.
Recent Blog Posts (view all entries)
- Joe Downtown: The Killers, Imagine Dragons grace Life Is Beautiful lineup
- Monday, June 3, 2013
- Las Vegas-bred The Killers, Beck and Kings of Leon, plus, recent breakout Las Vegas indie band Imagine Dragons headline a list of 33 rock artists ...
- Krave moving downtown, expanding into 'world's largest gay nightclub'
- Wednesday, July 25, 2012
- A mainstay on the Strip for eight years, Krave, which caters to a gay and lesbian clientele, is moving downtown, where it expects to nearly triple its business. In the former ...
- Housing construction drop costs 30 jobs at LV City Hall
- Thursday, March 6, 2008
- Housing construction drop costs 30 jobs at LV City Hall
Thirty employees at Las Vegas City Hall are going to lose their jobs next month, because of the drop in new home construction.
- New life to REI Neon's downtown arena plans
- Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008
- Closed park no closer to reopening
- Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008
- City councilman really angry -- just don't ask about what
- Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008
- Council picks city lawyer for judicial post
- Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008
- How cold is it?
- Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008
- Small turnout at King Day parade
- Monday, Jan. 21, 2008
- Long lines at Doolittle Center
- Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008
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