New Mexico state senator Bill O’Neill joined Lynn Moorer to discuss his semi-autobiographical novel, Panoramic Diaries, which features peripatetic protagonist Chapman Murphy, a son of privilege from Iowa who takes a break from his job as an executive director of a halfway house in New Mexico for a host of colorful and challenged parolees to ride the rails on freight cars and mostly live in freight yards, old hotels, and hobo camps. As discerning and altruistic Chapman seeks to find answers to his most important life questions while dealing with his parents’ expectations, he forms an alliance with another late bloomer and defiant spirit, Kit Jones, who joins him in his adventures.
On this week's Eye on Government, Walt Rubel talked to Las Cruces City Councilor Johana Bencomo about police reform, public safety and having a city budget that reflects our values. KTAL is excerpting that interview separately in hopes that it will spark informed conversations and, ultimately, better outcomes in these areas. Walt Rubel reviewed the week's top news stories, reported on the City Council presentation by its new independent police auditor, and he talked to Las Cruces City Councilor Johana Bencomo about her vision of public safety and how the city budget should reflect that.
Eileen VanWie and Kathy Brook of the League of Women Voters of Southern New Mexico discussed voter suppression laws under consideration or already passed in states throughout the country, as well as legislation pending in the U.S. Senate to ensure voting rights.
Kevin Self, owner of Michele's Dance Academy, will discuss an upcoming workshop in Las Cruces featuring choreographer Joshua Peugh, a Las Cruces native who went on to become the founder and artistic director of Dark Circles Contemporary Dance.
Anybody who wants the COVID-19 vaccine can now walk into any Walmart in the country without an appointment, an insurance card or a dime in their pocket, and get a free shot. In a very short period of time, the only people in the United States not vaccinated will be those who refuse to take the vaccine. That completely changes the equation on mandatory face mask laws.
The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico was spun off from Memorial Medical Center more than 30 years ago. Since then, it has broadened its scope to include not just health care issues, but also general well-being, education, and economic development. Last year, with its 300+ accounts, scholarship funds, and special fundraising for issues like the census and COVID relief, CFSNM gave out more than $1,000,000 in scholarships and grants to individuals and organizations in 10 counties across Southern New Mexico. CFSNM Executive Director Terra Winter joined Nan Rubin to talk about the work of the Foundation, who contributes, and its local impact.
What’s wrong with the oil and gas industry in New Mexico? Find out on this week’s Earth Matters as Donna Stevens of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance talks with Joseph Hernandez of the NAVA Education Project, retired water engineer Norm Gaume, and the Sierra Club’s Rio Grande Chapter Southern NM Coordinator. Did you know that it’s not illegal in NM to spill oil and toxic fracking fluids into our waterways and land? Hear how Native American and other communities of color are impacted by oil and gas fracking while NM politicians fail to adequately regulate this industry.
Today's "Think Again" program features a conversation with host Randy Harris, and Jon Williams - PhD Candidate at University of New Mexico in the field of Sociology. The conversation spans a spectrum of curious considerations (from a sociological perspective), about what's happening with us as individuals and as a society in this time of significant transitions.
Stuart Kelter interviews David Olds, a professor at the Pediatrics-Prevention Research Center at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He has devoted his long and distinguished career to the developing and testing of very early interventions in family and child functioning, starting prenatally and continuing through toddler age. After devoting decades to high quality, random assignment, longitudinal, comparison studies – showing the approach yielded dramatic benefits – Dr. Olds went on to win grant after grant, to implement what came to be called the Nurse-Family-Partnership program, now in 40 states and 8 foreign countries, today serving close to 40,000 families in the U.S. and 18,000 families abroad. The program has shown positive, substantial, long-term effects in the prevention of child abuse and neglect, school failure, injuries, depression, anxiety and anti-social behavior in children. Research from Nurse-Family-Partnership program (https://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/) have served as the primary evidentiary foundation for a $2.3B federal investment in evidence-based home visiting.
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