Peter and Walt talked with Angel Peña of Nuestra Tierra about the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act, the Outdoor Equity Fund and creation of opportunities for outdoor recreation for underserved communities; and developments more generally involving public lands, including areas taken for the border wall.
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Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel reports the latest information on the COVID-19 pandemic as a part of Speak Up, Las Cruces. They also talked with MaryAnn Digman, who will host a Cruces Coronavirus Update every Monday at 9 am, starting on August 3.
Guardianship issues was the topic of the first hour of the July 29, 2020 edition of Speak Up, Las Cruces. Rio Hamilton, a Cruces native who returned from New York City to help his mother, will discuss his experiences so far in trying to do that, and Frances Williams will also discuss what she's seen of the case. We'll later talk with Rick Black who have been fighting guardianship abuses around the country full-time for several years. Rick will likely comment on the Hamilton case but also discuss ideas for policy and statutes to curb abuses. NONE OF THE ABOVE SAYS OR IS MEANT TO SAY THAT ANY PARTICULAR PERSON OR COMPANY IS GUILTY OF ABUSES IN THE HAMILTON CASE. We have invited the guardianship company involved in that case, and a lawyer involved in it, but neither chose to participate in this show. Also present throughout the hour -- on this case, the general problem of guardianship processes and the abuses of those, and legislative attempts to improve the situation -- will be Mary Kay Papen, State Senator and long-time Las Cruces resident.
As one window into the examination of historic and contemporary racism in our country, guest Shahid Mustafa and host Randy Harris explore use of the phrases "Black Lives Matter" and "All Lives Matter". This conversation touches on both the specific messages and the broader implications, the assumptions, the emotions, the thinking, and the language that come into play when speaking and/or hearing those words.
Where do you draw the line, my friend asked as we watched a news clip of Confederate monuments being removed.
It’s a fair question, given the recent toppling of a monument dedicated to Ulysses S. Grant in San Francisco. The family of Grant’s wife owned slaves, and that apparently outweighed his service in leading the Union Army to victory in the Civil War, freeing all slaves, in the minds of some. Stuart Kelter interviews retired NMSU math professor, David Pengelley, about math education, math history, and learning math from primary source material. Dr. Pengelley, who also does original theoretical as well as historical mathematical research, rediscovered the work of the first known female research mathematician, Sophie Germain.
 Prolific poet and retired NMSU English Professor Joseph Somoza visited with Lynn Moorer about his book of collected poems, As Far As I Know, describing his process in which he composes words quickly to capture the energy of his inspiration. Explaining that poetry writing for him is a contemplative endeavor in which he writes poetry to know himself, he said that he writes almost daily and, when he doesn’t, feels something is missing in him. Somoza read and discussed several poems from his book, then shared a poem he recently wrote that reflects on our shared experiences during this time of the coronavirus pandemic.
The topic of COVID-19 was the major topic on the July 22 edition of Speak Up, Las Cruces. Peter and Walt talked with these guests by phone:
Local artist Paul Maxwell talked about a special auction of indoor-outdoor art to benefit the Roadrunner Food Bank of Las Cruces.
Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel reports the latest information on the COVID-19 pandemic as a part of Speak Up, Las Cruces.
In the era of Black Lives Matter, when a spirit of confronting our long history of racial prejudice and economic inequality is spreading, the death of Congressman John Lewis reminds us that the struggle for civil rights goes back a long way. 1964 was the year of Mississippi Freedom Summer, a campaign that saw 800 mostly white college students descend upon Mississippi at great risk to set up Freedom Schools and support voter registration. In a program special, Cafe con Leche presents Nan Rubin's interview with Jim Kates, a participant in Mississippi Freedom Summer and partner in Zephyr Press with Leora Zeitlin, on the 50th anniversary edition of Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers and Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer . KTAL Radio, Cafe con Leche, Tuesdays at 8:00 a.m. and midnight.
When I moved to Las Cruces in 2002, The Whole Enchilada Fiesta was the one annual event that was listed in all of the national tour guides. When founder Roberto Estrada decided to retire the giant ladle in 2015 at the age of 78, it left a void.
In 2013, the city held its first Country Music Festival, a three-day event featuring both local and national artists held on the streets downtown. It was before construction of Plaza de Las Cruces, at a time when the city was still struggling to breathe life into the downtown area. In this episode of "Think Again", Greg Smith, Executive Director of the Dona Ana Arts Council joins host Randy Harris for an exploration of both art in our community today, and art throughout history. This conversation provides an informative clarification of what's happening here and now in local art, and a peek into the seemingly timeless human motivation to express and communicate who we are, what we do, and that we matter.
Stuart Kelter interviews Alan Katz about his many decades of experience as a publicly-funded, court-appointed, criminal appeals defense attorney in New York, who explains how it works and what it's like to defend clients, regardless of their innocence or guilt.
 This week on Live True, Lisa Lucca talks with Selimah Nemoy, author of Since I Lost My Baby: A Memoir of Temptations, Troubles, and Truth about how powerful playing big in our Third Act can be.
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