Walt Rubel reviewed the week's top news stories, reported on the city council coming up with an ordinance to restrict fireworks and he talked to School Board Member Teresa Tenorio about naming a new superintendent, the new equity policy, and a year of distanced learning.
Lisa Lucca talks with award-winning director/producer/writer Nancy Saslow about her media career, how she and her MEgTV team produced dozens of episodes of Judgment with Ashleigh Banfield for CourtTV during a pandemic, and the changes we've seen in television in the 21st Century, Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman started their June 9, 2021 show grappling with how to teach race and racism in schools and how to deal with misinformation in the news.
Peter and Walt discuss the Inaugural Juneteenth Jazz Arts Festival scheduled for June 18-19 with founder Derrick Lee, who had a nightly jazz show on KRWG radio for seven years.
Peter and Walt discussed the ongoing redistricting effort in New Mexico with Richard Mason on Fair District NM. For the first the this year, an independent commission will lead the redistricting effort.
Walt and Peter discuss new rules for pre-trial release with Samantha Woodward, pretrial program manager for the Third Judicial Court District; District Attorney Gweald Byers and Kristopher Knutson of the Public Defenders Office.
There’s a great scene in the movie “Bull Durham” where Crash Davis, the veteran catcher, teaches hotshot pitching prospect Nuke Laloosh how to talk to the media: “We’ve got to play ‘em one game at a time.” “I’m just happy to be here, and hope I can help the ballclub.” “I just want to give it my best shot. And, the good Lord willing, things will work out.” As a former sportswriter, I thought director Ron Shelton gave it 110 percent in capturing the typical locker room exchanges. Players and coaches lean on cliches because they’re safe, and there’s one available for every situation.
Please join Donna Stevens of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance in a discussion about the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. In the first half of the show, climate activist Mike Fugagli summarizes some of the most recent climate news. Spoiler alert: it’s alarming. But Mike doesn’t give us only bad news; he also shares the latest hopeful, and even revolutionary, social trends. In the second half of the show, UGWA’s Education and Outreach Director, Carol Ann Fugagli, reviews a process called Active Hope, a very helpful method for dealing with climate grief and the accompanying emotions of anger, depression, fear, and anxiety.
Host Randy Harris welcomes Jim Rice, Environmental Sociology Professor at New Mexico State University. The dialogue offers perspectives on the importance of critical thinking about the first atomic detonation at the "Trinity" site in New Mexico, current considerations of climate change science, pandemic science, and more.
Stuart Kelter interviews Bruce Berger, MD, who taught for 30 years in the medical school of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Specializing in nephrology, his career encompassed teaching, medical research, and patient care at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, where he was also the director of the renal ward for 13 years. His experiences have provided him with a first hand, physician’s perspective of the corporatization that has transformed the American healthcare system over the last few decades, which is the focus of today’s interview, the first in a two part series on this topic.
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