Daisy and Peter host author, John B. "Jack" Wright, a NMSU professor and author of Fire Scars, an environmental mystery.
Daisy and Peter speak with CM Burroughs, a poet and educator, who will be at the CMI Theater, Milton Hall, NMSU campus, on February 2.
Peter and Daisy talk to Jamar Cotton, coordinator of the Dona Ana County Martin Luther King Youth Leadership Program for Kids. He's also a deputy sheriff and coaches Las Cruces' professional women's football team.
Representative Joanne Ferrary phones in to discuss legislative happenings up in Santa Fe. Co-hosts Peter Goodman and Daisy Maldonado discuss items in the news, both local and national. Also, in the studio, is Christopher A. Erickson, who will be presenting an ALR series for the Dona Ana Community College's series.
ALR presentation: Financial Crises Lisa Lucca talks with Canadian author and teacher Beth Kaplan about her work, and her new memoir of essays, Midlife Solo, which comes out on February 15th Today, we're joined by Mick Harris, son of host, Randy Harris. Born, raised, and educated in New Mexico, Mick now resides in Portland, Oregon, where he works as an attorney. We get to learn a little bit about his history. We explore considerations that include comparative evaluations of our community and Portland as pertaining to the unhoused, crime, drugs, politics, and policies. We also touch on real experience and perception, media, divided community, social constructs, freedom of speech, resource distribution, and optimism vs pessimism. An insightful conversation including Jack Turney, fellow millennial, that shows some of the parallels and distinctions between generations.
Stuart Kelter interviews Roger Berkowitz, a professor of Political Studies and Human Rights, as well as the founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, both at Bard College. He is the author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition, an account of how the rise of science led to the divorce of law and justice and the editor of Revenge and Justice, a special issue of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. In October of 2021, the Arendt Center hosted a conference entitled, “Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom,” about a mode of government that originated in ancient Greece with great potential for our own times. The Center has also provided trainings in the large scale use of digital tools for citizens around the world to enhance their involvement in policy-making.
I was driving through Colorado last summer when I encountered a series of electronic highway signs warning me to, “Slow the fast down.”
Being a product of the Colorado school system, I was taken aback by the poor grammar and sentence construction. Then it occurred to me that “fast” was a four-letter word starting with “f” so I was supposed to think … well, you know. Daisy and Peter talk to Maya K van Rossum, founder of Green Amendments For The Generations, about the organization and her work.
Daisy and Peter talk to Kevin Bixby, founder of Wildlife for All, about working to get state officials in charge of parks and wilderness to contemplate preserving the natural world, not merely for the convenience of hunters and fishing-folk. They also discuss the out-sized influence the gun lobby/NRA has had on state game and fish departments.
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