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Walt Rubel Commentary: Is income support program sustainable?

9/28/2023

I think we can cut to the chase regarding the city’s survey of those participating in its guaranteed basic income pilot program.

In 18 months, the responses will show that families who were given $500 a month by the government benefited in all kinds of positive ways, and nearby businesses also got a boost. Results are already in from similar surveys in different communities, and show pretty conclusively that people like free money.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Las Cruces City Council District 4 Candidates

9/27/2023

Daisy and Walt talk to the candidates for the District 4 seat on the Las Cruces City Council: incumbent Johana Bencomo, Ramon Ortega and Gabriel Duran. (Lorenzo Medina was invited but was unable to attend.)

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: LCPS School Board Candidates for District 4

9/27/2023

Walt and Daisy talk to the candidates for the District 4 seat on the Las Cruces school board: incumbent Teresa Tenorio, Julia Ruiz and Edward Howell.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Walt and Daisy Talk the News (09/27/2023)

9/27/2023

Co-hosts Walt Rubel and Daisy Maldonado discuss issues in the news, local and national.

Think Again: Jack is Back

9/26/2023

It was January 20, 2020. That day we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr's birthday. That day, the rapid collapse of many of our country's fundamental political and social norms was fully evident. That day, we were unknowingly staggering into the abyss of Covid 19's deadly embrace of humanity. On that morning, we had a conversation with millennial, Jack Turney. Now, nearly four years later, he joins us again.

With a master's degree in social work and a background of working with underserved members of our community, Jack currently works as a practicing therapist and family counselor. As a member of the millennial generation, he shares how the views of he and his peers have changed. He shares on his perceptions of our country's skyrocketing mental health issues and the unconscionable shortage of care providers - and much more. A lot of the conversation centers around Jack's reversion to a closer personal practice of Catholicism, how and why that's happening for him, and how it informs his life in these trying times.

DELVING IN: Chantel Prat, on the Neurology of Individual Differences

9/24/2023

Stuart Kelter interviews Chantel Prat, a Professor at the University of Washington in the Departments of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, with affiliations at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, the Center for Neurotechnology, and the Institute for Neuroengineering. A cognitive neuroscientist by training, her interdisciplinary research investigates the biological basis of individual differences in cognition, with emphasis on understanding the shared neural mechanisms underpinning language and higher-level executive functions. Her work has garnered multiple awards and has been profiled, among other places, in Scientific American and National Public Radio. Her recently published the book, The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain is Different and How to Understand Yours, is the subject of today’s interview.

Walt Rubel Commentary: Texas Senate chooses to look away

9/21/2023

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted by a grand jury in 2015 on two counts of securities fraud and one count of failing to register with the state.

He allegedly defrauded investors in a tech startup company called Server Inc. He has thus far been able to delay the start of his trial. But, those criminal charges were not the reason Paxton had 16 articles of impeachment filed against him by the Texas House of Representatives, which is controlled by Republicans.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Empty Bowls Fundraiser

9/20/2023

Daisy and Walt speak with Gabe Anaya, president of the El Caldito Board of Directors, Abel Chavarrsia, Empty Bowls kitchen coordinator, and Jan Archey of the Potter’s Guild about the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser, scheduled this year for October 13.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Families and Youth Innovations Plus (FYI+)

9/20/2023

Logan Howard of Families and Youth Innovations Plus (FYI+), will discuss the film “Inherent Good,” which tells the stories of people helped by the cash support program in Jackson, Miss. There will be a screening of the film Friday, September 22, at the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, followed by a panel discussion that will include members of the City Council.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Unity Through Creativity

9/20/2023

Walt and Daisy speak with Laurie Marshall, founder of the group Unity Through Creativity, about the International Day of Peace Celebration set for Saturday in El Paso. No similar events are scheduled for Las Cruces.

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Walt and Daisy Talk the News (09/20/2023)

9/20/2023

Co-hosts Walt Rubel and Daisy Maldonado discuss items in the news, both regional and nationally.

Cafe Con Leche: 2023 Border Archives Bazaar

9/19/2023

With the 2023 Border Archives Bazaar fast approaching on Saturday September 23rd, Nan Rubin hosts NMSU Special Collections Librarian Dylan McDonald, along with Donna Wojcik, Oral Historian at the Farm and Ranch Museum, and Angelica Valenzuela, Filing Supervisor in the Doña Ana County Clerk’s office, to explain the importance of archives in preserving our history and the rights.

Think Again: "Patriotism" - Harvey Hilbert: Part II

9/18/2023

We welcome Harvey Hilbert back for a follow-up conversation on the intellectual, social, emotional, and cognitive elements related to changing ideas of the words "Patriot" and "Patriotism". He touches on the static and the dynamic perceptions of how we understand our language. The conversation evaluates some words that seem to morph dynamically; words like "Moral" "Ethical" "Borders" "Religion" and others. It's an exploration of how and why our thinking influences our language, ourselves, and the world around us.

Harvey shared his intriguing concept of the "Eco-Patriot": One who understands and supports the planet to be deeply and completely interconnected and interdependent in all dimensions.

more information: Borges and Heisenberg - Quantum Poetics

Live True: Creating Every Second of the Day with author/artist Renee' Short

9/18/2023

Lisa Lucca talks with Las Cruces artist/author Renee' Short about her many art forms, the joy of creating with found objects, and her new children's book The Joy of Everyday Things which encourages us all to find magic in curiosity and appreciation.

DELVING IN: Lisa Bortolotti on the Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry

9/17/2023

Stuart Kelter interviews Lisa Bortolotti, a philosopher at the University of Birmingham in the U.K., focusing on the philosophy of psychology and psychiatry. She investigates faulty reasoning and irrational beliefs; delusions, confabulations and distorted memories; and the limitations of self-knowledge given our unreliable self narratives and self-deception. She is the author, co-author, and editor of several books on such subjects and the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal, Philosophical Psychology.

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Walt Rubel Commentary: Is income support program sustainable?

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Las Cruces City Council District 4 Candidates

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: LCPS School Board Candidates for District 4

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Walt and Daisy Talk the News (09/27/2023)

Think Again: Jack is Back

DELVING IN: Chantel Prat, on the Neurology of Individual Differences

Walt Rubel Commentary: Texas Senate chooses to look away

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Empty Bowls Fundraiser

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Families and Youth Innovations Plus (FYI+)

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Unity Through Creativity

Speak Up, Las Cruces!: Walt and Daisy Talk the News (09/20/2023)

Cafe Con Leche: 2023 Border Archives Bazaar

Think Again: "Patriotism" - Harvey Hilbert: Part II

Live True: Creating Every Second of the Day with author/artist Renee' Short

DELVING IN: Lisa Bortolotti on the Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry

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