Dan and Walt talked to the candidates for the District 5 seat on the Las Cruces school board: incumbent Carol Cooper and challengers Ed Frank and Jose Aranda. Ernest B. Carlson IV was invited but did not attend.
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Walt and Dan talked to Patrick Nolan, the incumbent candidate for the Las Cruces school board District 1. Challenger Joseph Sousa was invited but did not attend.
Co-hosts Walt Rubel and Dan Lere discuss the news and upcoming election. Their will be no Tribute from District 13 this year.
Jack Turney returns for an encore conversation about how as a millennial he perceives the challenges we face in our country and around the world today. The exploratory process touches on some external considerations like technology, climate change, media, social media, and cultural norms. Some of the internal elements that get attention are expectations, critical thinking, attitudes, adaptive processes, and the differing values contained in differing stories of the consumer industrial complex that shape our lives. He gives some focus as well to how awareness of our predicament may bring both appropriate and inappropriate despair and how to bring realistic hope into the equation.
 Lisa Lucca talks with production whiz Zillenial Ella Featherstone whose wisdom and insight bring hope for our future. They cover so many topics from anxiety and empathy to therapy and tech.
Opponents of our support for Ukraine have started lumping in the defense of their homeland with our past wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and referring to them all as “forever wars.” Let’s break that down.
The war in Afghanistan started on Oct. 7, 2001 with an invasion ordered by President George W. Bush, and ended on Aug. 26, 2021 with a withdrawal ordered by President Joe Biden. It lasted for 19 years, 10 months and 19 days, and resulted in the deaths of 2,402 American servicemen and women, including 13 during the withdrawal. Daisy and Peter talk to Las Cruces City Council District 1 candidates: Jason Estrada, Cassie McClure, Daniel Buck, Patrick Potter, and Mark O'Neill.
 Peter and Daisy talk to former U.S. representative and recent Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke. He will be doing a book reading at NMSU on October 20. His most recent book is We've Got to Try.
Co-hosts Peter Goodman and Daisy Maldonado discuss issues in the news, both local and national.
Greg Smith's guests are two reporters who have done much to keep our region informed about the arts. While she has been retired for a few years, Derrickson Moore is still well remembered for her excellent coverage of the arts in the Las Cruces Sun-News. In recent years, Mike Cook has also been doing a great job of making news about the arts known in the Las Cruces Bulletin. Both Derrickson and Mike will be discussing past, present, and future directions in the arts as well as other topics they have covered. They will also be sharing what they see coming in their own lives.
 Lisa Lucca talks with author and yoga teacher Sherry Sidoti, who shares about her life, meaning-making, and her memoir, A Smoke & A Song,
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