Las Cruces Bulletin publisher Richard Coltharp and writer Mike Cook gave a recap the week's news and previewed upcoming events as they highlighted some of the articles in the latest edition of the newspaper. They also talked with County Clerk Amanda López Askin about voting in the general elections. Election Day is November 8. Early voting starts October 11.
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Walt and Shirley speak with Lt. Gov. Howie Morales about the race for governor between Michelle Lujan Grisham and Mark Ronchetti. Morales is on the ballot with Lujan Grisham.
Shirley and Walt speak with organizers of the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser to benefit the El Caldito Soup Kitchen, which will be held next Friday, October 14th at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 225 W. Griggs Ave..
Dr. Fumi Arakawa, a professor of anthropology at NMSU and director of the University Museum, talks about his upcoming presentation for the Academy for Learning in Retirement: Archeology of the Gila National Forest.
Walt and Shirley discuss National Hispanic Heritage Month, Raza Unida, the I-25 Rivalry,and the three-ringed circus of national and local politics.
 Greg Smith's guests on this week's Cafe Con Leche were Rosemary McGloughlin and Penny Peace.
Rosemary's show, The Gift of Loss, is up in the gallery for October. She will be talking about her art, challenges and successes with her glaucoma, and how she came to be doing what she does in our part of New Mexico. Penny will be talking about working with Rosemary and about other events we have coming up in the galleries, including a retrospective show with works by Maria Dolores that is up concurrently with Rosemary's show. During the next few weeks, voters will get their first chance to weigh in on the recent rulings by our new Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority.
The unelected and unaccountable justices are not likely to notice or care. They will be too busy reshaping our nation’s laws to fit their religious and political preferences. On today's program, Peter Goodman shares his personal experience of mortality within his family, and of supporting his father's decision to end his own life. Peter touches briefly on New Mexico's 2021 "Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life-Options Act."
The conversation weaves through personal and cultural attitudes toward death and dying, our capacities for denial and distraction, the counsel of the ancients, and how awareness and acceptance of our certain mortality also influences our living days. Peter reads some thought-provoking poetry, including a very moving piece about a much-loved young man from our community - who died from a lightning strike a few years ago - and who's loss and absence still weighs heavily on our hearts. Stuart Kelter interviews Bryn Nelson, a PhD microbiologist who changed course to become an award-winning science journalist. In addition to several years as a staff writer at Newsday, focusing on genetics, stem cell research, evolution, ecology, and conservation, he has written for dozens of other news outlets as well, including the New York Times, Nature, and the BMJ, among others. His writing has garnered nearly a dozen awards for pieces on health, medicine, and ecology. His recently published book, Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure is the subject of today’s interview.
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