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. NM Legislative Special Session: we’ll discuss with State Senator Joe Cervantes, State Representative Joanne Ferrary and Benjamin A. Baker the recent controversy over the “special session” called by the Governor that the Legislature closed in a day without considering most of her agenda. What happened and why? What should have happened? What’s next on those serious issues? Mr. Baker is the Senior Public Safety Advisor for the Governor’s Office. [Please note that the Governor's Office will hold a town hall on this issue Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m. in the Las Cruces Convention Center located at 680 E University Ave.]
Mr. Biden has withdrawn, Ms. Harris is running for President. We’ll discuss these developments and how the campaign looks with Democrat Robert McNamara and Republican Merrit Allen.
Las Cruces’s proposed overhaul of the animal ordinance: as city councilors and meeting attendees know, animal advocates have waged a long campaign to significantly change the city’s animal ordinance. We’ll discuss the compromise proposal that recently passed legal review with advocates Kathe Stark and Geri Wheelis, LCPD Supervisor for Animal Control Gino Jimenez, and City Attorney Brad Douglas. What are the issues? How much of what advocates wanted is in the ordinance? How will it change city practices?
Greg’s guest is Jackie Iyari Barragan, and the topic is “Film in the Arts.” Specifically, Jackie is sharing about Femme Frontera, grants that are open until August 1, the Minifest coming up on August 10, and other insights into what is happening locally with film.
Today's conversation with Keith Whelpley and Jack Turney touches on recent political developments in the U.S. and what they mean. We take the opportunity to acknowledge what's happening today, and what's at stake for our future in this unfolding presidential campaign. We explore the stability of our fundamental governmental structures, our individual and collective values, and how it all may shape and be shaped by our culture. We ask if culture is "upstream" of our politics, and whether culture informs politics, and/or inversely, do politics inform culture?
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