Walt and Peter speak with Bill Wight, public affairs officer for the BLM, about upcoming events, including a guided hike at the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument and the Artist in Residency program at Organ Mountains/Desert Peaks National Monument.
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Daphne Wirthlin is a delightful and active artist in Las Cruces, who's recently turned 80 years old.
Raised and educated on multiple continents, Daphne grew up immersed in many cultures, languages, and social dynamics. While she has extensive experience as a performer in radio, television and theatre, she spends much of her time these days walking, hiking, painting, birding, and taking photographs. This all too brief conversation touches on some of her interesting life experiences, and some considerations of her life in Las Cruces today as a single, senior, woman.  Lisa Lucca talks with Las Cruces witch, teacher, healer, NMSU professor and baker Gina Lawrence Grandjean about dispelling the myths around witches, and the exciting healing work Gina is doing - yoga, reiki, tarot, baking - as she opens her new space with Grounding Monarch on Alameda Ave.
Of the four general obligation bonds approved by Las Cruces voters in the November, 2022 election, two addressed critical needs (affordable housing and a new fire station) and two addressed wants (improvements to city parks.)
Incredibly, the City Council has prioritized our wants ahead of our needs. And so, park improvements will go ahead as scheduled. And, thankfully, so will construction of a new fire station on the north side of the East Mesa. Peter and Walt speak with attorneys from both sides of a recent lawsuit filed against the city of Las Cruces, following an incident in which a man named, Jonathan Strickland, was shot multiple times by police and survived. Attorney John Burris has alleged that the police response was reckless and would have been different if Strickland was not a black man. Attorney Luis Robles denied that race played a factor and said officers were given false information.
Walt and Peter talk with Dr. Tim Ketellar, an associate professor in the NMSU Department of Psychology, who will be giving a presentation this month for the Academy for Learning in Retirement on the topic of Evolutionary Psychology.
Host Greg Smith talked to Penny Peace, Tina Ballew, and Mary Diesel about the Unfinished Business: Women’s Power of Persistence show in the Arts Council galleries in March, Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica Quartet coming to the Rio Grande Theatre on March 22, and the Arts Fair coming to the Convention Center March 25th and 26th.
 Lisa Lucca talks with El Paso R & B singer/songwriter Matt U Johnson about bringing his international musical flavor to the airwaves with his new single Live It Up and a positive message of celebration and gratitude.
Feminism: What is it? What does the word mean?
We ask those questions with today's guest, New Mexico State University Professor, Dr. Julia Smith, whose fields include Gender and Sexuality Studies and Feminist Methodologies. Her thoughtful observations touch on a few of the many nuanced aspects of what is considered "Feminism" and "Feminist". She helps us begin to explore the meaning and influence of feminism in our culture, what it means to be a feminist, and offers some reading suggestions for further study. Fyodor Urnov is a Professor of Molecular Therapeutics at UC Berkeley and a Scientific Director at its Innovative Genomics Institute. He co-developed the toolbox of human genome and epigenome editing and led the team that developed a strategy for genome editing in the hemoglobinopathies, sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia, that has yielded sustained clinical benefit for subjects in several ongoing clinical trials. At the IGI Fyodor directs efforts to develop scalable CRISPR-based approaches to treat diseases of the immune system, sickle cell disease, neurodegeneration, and neuroinflammation. His recent op-ed in the New York Times describes a major goal for the field of genome editing, and a key focus of Fyodor's work at the IGI - expanding access to CRISPR therapies for N=1 genetic disease.
When I bought my home in 2002 there were two big selling points - an addition on the back that was large enough to accommodate the pool table I would buy a few weeks later, and the fact that it was in a quiet neighborhood on a street that is one block long and doesn’t really connect to anything.
For nearly two decades that isolation provided security, but in the last two or three years things have changed. It’s still quiet, and I still feel safe walking throughout the neighborhood. But in the last couple of years I’ve had thefts from both my car and my home. Peter and Walt talk with George Pearson, board president for Velo Cruces, and other group members, about an upcoming contest to encourage people to bicycle to local murals, as well as ongoing efforts to promote bicycling in Las Cruces.
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