Walt and Nancy speak with Chris Faivre, who is leading the effort to get a municipal gross receipts tax increase passed by Las Cruces voters.
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Walt and Nancy speak with James Horcasitas of the Professional Firefighters Union No, 2362, which is sponsoring the Battle of the Badges amateur boxing competition between Las Cruces Police and Firefighters on Saturday at the Convention Center.
If the town hall meeting on public safety called by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham last week was intended to demonstrate the public’s concern about crime, it was a huge success.
They expected it to draw about 200 people and take two hours to complete. Instead, a crowd of more than 500 packed the Convention Center ballroom for a discussion that lasted long into the night. Greg’s guest is Federico Almarez, the board vice president of Doña Ana Arts Council. The topics are updates on what the Arts Council is doing and the search for an interim director. As the local hub for the arts for more than 50 years, DAArts has a number of critical arts-centered activities going on each year.
Today, Prof. Mark Lusk, shares some of his experience-based insights on migration and immigration in the U.S. and abroad. Encouraging us to recognize migration as a global issue, he points to the impacts of war, poverty, political violence, and climate change as root causes of migration and immigration. Acknowledging the rise of "Authoritarian Nationalism" is the U.S. and abroad, he cites the importance of accurate information as an antidote to politically motivated fear and hate narratives, and suggests what we can do to reconsider our own thinking, biases, and assumptions.
 Lisa Lucca talks with author Katie Brotten about interspecies communication and devotion, and the books she has written about her dog, Vinnie, and her relationship with crows.
Stuart Kelter interviews Harry Cliff, a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge. He is a member of an international team of around 1400 physicists, engineers and computer scientists who use the CERN particle accelerator in search of answers to some of the biggest questions in modern physics, such as the nature of dark matter and why the universe is made of matter and not antimatter. Harry has written two popular science books. The first, How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origin of Atoms to the Big Bang, was published in 2021 and was named by Kirkus as one of the best science books of the year, His second, Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe, was published in March of 2024. He also shares his love physics with the public by giving TED Talks, curating science exhibitions, and appearing as a frequent guest on television, radio, and podcasts.
The Telshor Fund was created by the city in 2004 to bank its share of the revenue from the 40-year lease on Memorial Medical Center to Lifepoint Health, a corporation with 62 hospitals in 16 states.
Net proceeds to the city were $26.1 million, with another $4.2 million in additional escrow funds for a total of $30.3 million, according to the city’s website. |
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