On this final edition of Eye on Government, Walt Rubel reviewed the week's top news stories, reported on a Las Cruces city council work session about spending $24.8 Million in funds from the federal American Recovery Plan Act and he talked to House Majority Whip Doreen Gallegos about some of the new laws taking effect in New Mexico.
To close out their June 16, 2021 show, Peter aired pre-recorded interviews with school board member Maria Flores and citizen Dennis Page about Las Cruces Public Schools new equity policy (Policy JBC) that was intended for a previous broadcast but was dropped due to lack of time.
Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman started their June 16, 2021 broadcast talking about recent events, including the current state of COVID-19, the state of the Biden agenda and Sun-Times coverage of a new coffee shop in town.
State Sen. Carrie Hamblen will discuss the effort she led that included 24 other members of the Legislature signing on a letter to President Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland supporting the pause in new drilling leases and calling on the federal government to increase royalty rates for on-shore production to equal those paid for off-shore production.
Patrick Nolan, director of Friends of the Organ Mountains, will talk about activities this year including a summer youth work program, the push for a Resource Management Plan, the Monumental Loop (bike trails connecting all four segments of the Monument) and 30x30 legislation, trying to protect 30% land/water by 2030 to fight climate change.
I rise today in support of leakers.
Here’s to Daniel Ellsberg, a former Marine who was working as a private-sector military analyst in 1971 when he leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study on U.S. activities in Vietnam dating back to the Truman administration. It revealed a decades-long history of lies to the American public by both military and civilian leaders, including their denials at the time of bombing raids beyond Vietnam’s borders. Lisa Lucca talks with Las Cruces American Idol contestant Dzaki Sukarno about his audition, his trip to Hollywood, and stepping into the spotlight of his dream. Today's program allows host Randy Harris and guest Alicia Chumley, Project Director with Boys and Girls Clubs of El Paso TX, an opportunity for an exploratory conversation about the roles and relevance of "Elders" in our communities.
Daniel Simpson discussed his new book, The Truth About Yoga. His book provides an in-depth look at yoga. The book is available on Amazon and wherever you buy your books. Simpson joined host Xolani Kacela from his home in Oxford, England. It was his first appearance on Take On Faith. He shared his story about how he discovered yoga. Also, he talked about how he became a yoga expert. He discussed yoga’s roots and its early texts. Importantly, he explained yoga evolved from Hindu practice to modern day exercise. He broke down how politics, religion, and culture changed yoga practice. Originally, it was a way to ease suffering. An established author, he updated listeners on the current state of yoga in the world.
Engineer, scientist, and intelligence expert Joseph W. Foster talked with Lynn Moorer about his debut spy novel, The BiniSphere, in which he says he broke a lot of rules of physics to create his thriller story about Perry Franklin, a retired scientist and engineer who had worked for the intelligence community and had designed, built, and fielded the most advanced tracking technologies in the world for the U. S government. When a KH-11 reconnaissance satellite, operated in partnership between the National Reconnaissance Office and the CIA, inexplicably shuts down, Perry is called upon to ferret out the problem. His investigation takes him to Sicily where he encounters professor Christina LaTorre and her team who, it turns out, are building a movable nuclear reactor, the BiniSphere, that can, using sub-atomic particles, be pointed in any direction with high accuracy to denuclearize nuclear attacks. At the same, he discovers the U.S. is building a similar device for a very different purpose. |
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