Walt and Peter speak with part-time Las Cruces resident and Minnesota native Ron DeHarpporte, long-time ACLU board-member there, close friend of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, and one of the earliest supporters of Tim Walz.
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Walt and Peter talked with new Sun-News sports reporter Nick Copollo, who fills a void that had existed for local sports reporting. Before his hiring, there had been no print sports reporter in town for several months.
Walt and Peter speak with Las Cruces Public Schools Superintendent Ignacio Ruiz about the start of a new school year.
Greg Smith is pleased to follow up his conversation with Sierra County sculptor Otto Rigan, with another artist of Sierra County, painter and Otto’s partner, Stacy Blum-Hay. Her routes to Truth or Consequences and to becoming an artist are very different from Otto’s and will make for another most engaging hour.
Jack Turney and Randy Harris have a wide-ranging conversation about how words, language, thinking, emotions and actions are influenced by our thinking and our word choices. It's an exploration touching on considerations of truths, the humility of agnosticism, hubris, pride, arrogance, and how our language and perceptions of reality shape the ways in which we see and relate to ourselves, others, and the world around us.
There’s an old joke that ends with the punchline, “we’re from the government and we're here to help.” I fear that applies to the city’s new shopping cart ordinance.
I still don’t know who is the victim that this new law is trying to save. It certainly isn’t the store owners. They have just been handed a new, burdensome government mandate that they didn’t want or ask for. Stuart Kelter interviews Ian Buruma, a Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. Originally from the Netherlands, he is a prolific writer with broad interests, including Japanese and Chinese culture and history, organized religion and religious intolerance, and intellectual and political freedom or lack thereof. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, New Republic, New Yorker, and The Guardian and has also written two novels. His most recent book, published earlier this year and the subject of today’s interview, is Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah. Buruma provides historical and biographical context to Spinoza’s life, as well as drawing out the relevance of Spinoza’s value system to current political controversies.
Walt and Nancy speak with Daisy Maldonado and Vivian Fuller of Empowerment Congress NM, which is calling on Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to follow up on recent promises to address drinking water problems in Sunland Park. (Daisy is also a regular co-host of Speak Up Las Cruces.)
Walt and Nancy continue our discussions with candidates running in this year’s election by talking with Rep. Angelica Rubio, who won her election in the Democratic primary and is now running uncontested for re-election in District 35.
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