Walt Rubel reviewed the week's top news stories plus he reported on what happened during the latest city council, county commissioner's and school board meetings. On this week's featured interview, he talked with Jeff Steinborn about Monuments to Main Street.
 Retired New Mexico State University professor Charles H. Harris, III, returned to the show to chat with Lynn Moorer about his latest book written with Louis R. Sadler, The Texas Rangers in Transition: From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators 1921-1935, which traces the development of this state investigative and law enforcement agency with broad police powers and possessing a special mystique in Texas. He described Texas during this period: violent and racist; experiencing a stupendous boom in oil production and phenomenal production of booze; where a self-defense claim got most gunslingers off; and where the Democratic Party reigned supreme with a string of governors that included Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson.
 In the second hour of the September 11, 2019 edition of Speak Up, Las Cruces, hosts Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel talked to the candidates for the Las Cruces City Council District 1: Kasandra Gandara and Shelly A. Nichols-Shaw.
 In the first hour of the September 11, 2019 edition of Speak Up, Las Cruces, hosts Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel talked to the candidates for the Las Cruces School Board District 5: Edward Frank, Carol Lynn Cooper, Gloria J. Martinez and Maria G. Pacheco.
It's fall! The Mesilla Valley Maze will be opening soon! Anna Lyles, the maze's owner, was Nan Rubin's guest on the September 10, 2019 edition of Cafe Con Leche to talk about the history of the maze and upcoming activities. The maze design this year is an Apollo astronaut!
 Risk, big and small, is at the root of all change. Join host Lisa Lucca and her guest Cynthia de Lorenzi as they discuss the rewards of taking chances.
Walt Rubel reviewed the week's top news stories plus he reported on what happened during the latest city council, county commissioner's and school board meetings. On this week's featured interview, he talked with J. Joe and Arlene Martinez about a new First Responders Memorial in Las Cruces.
In the first hour of the September 4, 2019 edition of Speak Up, Las Cruces, hosts Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel discussed the Property Assessed Clean Energy program, under discussion at the Dona Ana County Commission, with proponent Rocky Bacchus and County Treasurer Eric Rodriguez. The program promises to bring clean energy to folks who often haven't been able to afford it.
In the second hour of the September 4, 2019 edition of Speak Up, Las Cruces, hosts Peter Goodman and Walt Rubel discussed HB 489, the Energy Transition Act, a law Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed in March that sets bold statewide renewable energy standards. What good things does the Act accomplish, what are some of the key criticisms and what are the prospects of the recently-filed lawsuit challenging its constitutionality? We talked with State Representative Nathan Small, a co-sponsor of HB 489, and Public Regulatory Commissioner Stephen Fischmann.
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