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.”
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.” Irene Oliver Lewis discusses the Dona Ana County Creative Industries Grant Project, which was approved Tuesday morning by the Dona Ana County Commission.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.” Daisy and Walt focus on the county clerk race between Amanda Lopez Askin and Andrew Ostic.
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