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DELVING IN: Samina Ali on Nearly Dying While Giving Birth and Her Seven Year Process of Recovery

3/31/2025

 
Samina Ali teaches fiction writing at Stanford University and is an award-winning author, whose debut novel, Madras on Rainy Days, published in 2004, won several literary awards, including Poets & Writers Magazine’s Top Debut of the Year. She has been a columnist for the New York Times Book Review and other publications and has been interviewed by national media.

Samina has been an activist for Muslim women’s rights and has served as a cultural ambassador to several European countries for the U.S. State Department. A founding member of the American Muslim feminist organization, Daughters of Hajar, she curated the acclaimed global exhibition, Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art & Voices, showcasing work by Muslim women artists, activists, and thought leaders from around the world.
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Samina’s just released second book, Pieces You’ll Never Get Back, which is the subject of today’s interview, tells the story of her unlikely survival and seven years of recovery, after nearly dying during the birth of her son. The memoir disarmingly invites the reader to relive her harrowing experience with her, as she taps into its medical, psychological, spiritual, cultural, and familial dimensions.

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Mesilla Valley Sports Show: Las Cruces High baseball coach Gil Padilla

3/27/2025

 
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On this week’s Mesilla Valley Sports Show, Mike and Brian welcomed longtime Las Cruces High baseball coach Gil Padilla. With over 25 years of coaching and now celebrating his 400th win as the Bulldawgs’ head coach, Padilla shared insights from his career and reflections on local baseball. Plus, news and kudos from this week’s games.

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Speak Up Las Cruces: Cervantes and Ferrary on 2025 NM Legislative Session

3/26/2025

 
Peter and Daisy talked with State Sen. Joe Cervantes and State Rep. Joanne Ferrary about the recent legislative session, what they particularly liked or didn’t and what we particularly liked and didn’t.

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Speak Up Las Cruces: Bill McCamley

3/26/2025

 
Bill McCamley, notable local citizen, is recently back from Austin, TX, and more recently became a prominent member of the local Indivisible group. He discussed what the group is up to plus the current presidential administration.

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Speak Up Las Cruces: Assessing Recent Zoning Change in Las Cruces

3/26/2025

 
Peter and Daisy discussed Las Cruces’s recent big zoning change with two folks who see it very differently: Chris Faivre, a city official involved in making it happen, and Sarah Smith, a citizen involved in trying to make it un-happen. We’ll discuss in particular concerns expressed by both sides aboutr alleged misinformation, as well as how it will really affect single-family homeowners.

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Speak Up Las Cruces: Peter & Daisy Talk About The News (March 26, 2025)

3/26/2025

 
​Co-hosts Peter Goodman and Daisy Maldonado discuss issues in the news.

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Cafe Con Leche: Cruces Creatives

3/25/2025

 
On this week’s Café Con Leche, Greg Smith welcomed Lea Wise-Surguy and Patrick DeSimio to discuss the creative programs and opportunities at Cruces Creatives. Since 2018, this downtown Las Cruces makerspace has been fostering innovation and community collaboration.

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Walt Rubel Commentary: Don’t blame police or the car show

3/25/2025

 
The Las Cruces Police aren’t to blame for the mass shooting Friday night at Young Park that left three people dead and 15 wounded.

Freshman Rep. Sarah Silva was wrong when she said police had, “the resources they need to address the issues.” Anybody who has made a police call recently and waited forever for an officer to arrive knows they are short on manpower.

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Think Again: Carlos Aceves, Raices Del Saber Xinachtli Community School

3/25/2025

 
On this week's Think Again, Peter Goodman and Randy Harris had a conversation with Carlos Aceves. Carlos Aceves, co-founder of Raices Del Saber Xinachtli Community School. At Raices, a public charter school offering a bilingual immersion program in Las Cruces, students study conventional curriculum and integrate ancient Indigenous values and practices.

This is an exploration of our current culture in contrast with earlier cultures; western cultures tending to see the earth as a source of material wealth, while earlier cultures teach that like all life forms, we humans are part of the fabric of creation and the earth is our mother. Touching on history, values, economics, empires and religion, we endeavor to reveal a powerful perspective of the human experience.

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DELVING IN: Charles Piller on Fraud in Alzheimer's Research

3/23/2025

 
Stuart Kelter interviews Charles Piller, an award-winning investigative journalist for Science magazine, reporting on such topics as public health, biological warfare, and infectious disease outbreaks. In addition to articles in major newspapers, he is the co-author, with Keith Yamamoto, of Gene Wars: Military Control over the New Genetic Technologies, published in 1988, which examines the U.S. military biotechnology program and discusses the future of genetic arms control. He is the author of The Fail-Safe Society: Community Defiance and the End of American Technological Optimism, published in 1991, about the opposition by community groups to scientific and technological projects that endanger their communities. This interview focuses on his recently published book, Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's, the book-length version of his exposé, “Blots on a Field,” that he wrote for Science magazine on July 21, 2022.

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