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Walt Rubel Commentary: Court gives green light to gerrymandering

5/30/2024

The U.S. Supreme Court has just stripped away the final protections against gerrymandering.

With a series of rulings in the 1960s, the court established that the 14th Amendment required political districts to be redrawn so that, “the vote of any citizen is approximately equal in weight to that of any other citizen in the state.”

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Irene Oliver Lewis - Grant Project

5/29/2024

Irene Oliver Lewis discusses the Dona Ana County Creative Industries Grant Project, which was approved Tuesday morning by the Dona Ana County Commission.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Dolores Lucero - Lohman Expansion

5/29/2024

Dolores Lucero discusses the Lohman expansion.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Black Box Theatre + Mesilla Valley Film Society

5/29/2024

Director Ceil Herman and cast member, Ed Montes, in this season’s last play, “A Walk in the Woods,” discuss the play and recently finalized schedule of plays for 2024-2025.

Toward the end of the segment, Carol McCall will tell us of upcoming films at the Mesilla Valley Film Society. Films play at the historic Fountain Theater in Mesilla.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Walt and Peter Talk the News (05/29/2024)

5/29/2024

Co-hosts Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman discuss items in the news, local and national.

Cafe Con Leche: Cultural Awareness & Historic Preservation, Part Three

5/28/2024

Greg Smith wraps up Preservation Month with Part 3 of his “Cultural Awareness and Historic Preservation” conversation. He speaks with Troy Ainsworth, recently Historic Preservation Officer at the City of Las Cruces and now Historian at Ft. Bliss, and Paul Dulin who was long associated with KTAL before his move to North Carolina. Paul’s experiences across a broad spectrum of circumstances will bring additional perspective to the subject.

Think Again: Shahid Mustafa on Reparations

5/27/2024

Shahid Mustafa, co-host of KTAL's exclusive "Black English Vernacular" show, brings a conversation that centers on exploring some of the questions around reparations for Black people, as descendants of slaves. While not claiming to have "the answers" Shahid offers some preliminary ideas for models and formulas to determine who might be eligible for compensation, what that compensation might be, and how it might be distributed. A thorny topic that requires not only addressing the economics, but also the ethics that underlie our individual and collective actions.

DELVING IN: Tom Chivers on How Bayesian Statistics Underpins Both Scientific Prediction and Everyday Functioning

5/26/2024

Stuart Kelter interviews Tom Chivers, a science writer who has won several awards, including the Royal Statistical Society’s award for statistical excellence in journalism, the Association of British Science Writers’ science journalist of the year, and the Times’s science books of the year. He has written three books. His first, The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity’s Future, was published in 2019. His second book, How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) was published in 2021. His just-released third book, entitled Everything is Predictable: How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World, is the subject of today’s interview.

Walt Rubel Commentary: It’s debatable if debates happen

5/23/2024

The problem with presidential debates is they don’t have a scoreboard.

We treat them as if they were a football game, with clear winners and losers. President Joe Biden sent out a taunting video last week in which he claimed, “Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020.”

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: County Clerk - Amanda Lopez Askin and Andrew Ostic

5/21/2024

Daisy and Walt focus on the county clerk race between Amanda Lopez Askin and Andrew Ostic.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: County Commission District 5 - Manual A. Sanchez

5/21/2024

Walt and Daisy talk to Manuel A. Sanchez, running unopposed for the seat on the County Commission District 5.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Walt and Daisy Talk the News (05/22/2024)

5/21/2024

Co-hosts, Walt Rubel and Daisy Maldonado discuss items in botth the national and local scenes and also talk to Fernando Macias who is running in the race for District Attorney.

Cafe Con Leche: Cultural Awareness & Historic Preservation, Part Two

5/21/2024

Pat and Wendy Taylor joins host Greg Smith to talk about the role historic preservation plays in our sense of where we live and what we have here.

Pat and Wendy have been working on the Guadalupe House in Mesilla, but it is only one of their projects. Alex is bringing in an important indigenous perspective.

Think Again: Genevieve Chavez Mitchell

5/20/2024

Insightful human being and author, Genevieve Chavez Mitchell, spends a delightful hour with us today. She gives primary focus to the idea that we can consciously choose the "spirit" we want to bring to our lives and the world around us. While recognizing that our species is facing unprecedented challenges, Genevieve offers encouraging views of the healing and regenerative influence of even small actions. She urges joy, wonder, awe, magic, grace, gratitude, and awareness of our fundamental connectedness with the entirety of the universe. She outlines ideas and practices that can support us all, in ways large and small, as we navigate these simultaneously wondrous and troubling times.

Hers is nurturing counsel: "We're all pilgrims, just walking our way home, together". (GCM)

Live True: Democratic Candidate for President Marianne Williamson

5/19/2024

Lisa Lucca has a meaningful conversation with Marianne Williamson about her campaign for the Democratic nomination, her vision for our country, and why she is still campaigning to keep her message on the minds of Americans as we head toward the election in November. Her name is on the NM Ballot on 6/4 and she will speak in Las Cruces on 5/22 at Branigan Library 2:30pm.

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Walt Rubel Commentary: Court gives green light to gerrymandering

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Irene Oliver Lewis - Grant Project

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Dolores Lucero - Lohman Expansion

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Black Box Theatre + Mesilla Valley Film Society

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Walt and Peter Talk the News (05/29/2024)

Cafe Con Leche: Cultural Awareness & Historic Preservation, Part Three

Think Again: Shahid Mustafa on Reparations

DELVING IN: Tom Chivers on How Bayesian Statistics Underpins Both Scientific Prediction and Everyday Functioning

Walt Rubel Commentary: It’s debatable if debates happen

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: County Clerk - Amanda Lopez Askin and Andrew Ostic

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: County Commission District 5 - Manual A. Sanchez

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Walt and Daisy Talk the News (05/22/2024)

Cafe Con Leche: Cultural Awareness & Historic Preservation, Part Two

Think Again: Genevieve Chavez Mitchell

Live True: Democratic Candidate for President Marianne Williamson

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