Lt. Governor Howie Morales discussed proposed new standards for social studies classes in New Mexico. He recently wrote a guest column in support of the proposed changes, which highlight racial and cultural diversity.
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Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman discussed items in the news including the latest COVID numbers, the Rittenhouse trial and the situation in Belarus.
 Lisa Lucca talks with multi-talented artist Meeshelle Neal about how she moves betwixt and between her work as an author and a filmmaker.
One year after leading the effort to strip police officers of their qualified immunity from civil lawsuits, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is now seeking additional funding for law enforcement.
The governor will call for an additional $100 million to hire 1,000 more law enforcement officers throughout the state when the Legislature meets in January, according to the Albuquerque Journal. Once the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad came through Las Cruces in the late 1800s, it opened up the scenic southwest to both businesses and tourists. Dr Christopher McMahon, Curator for the museums of Las Cruces, will join Nan Rubîn in the studio to outline how the railroad used Hispanic and Native American symbols and images to lure travelers looking for an exotic travel adventure.
In this morning's "Think Again" program, guests Marshall Tucker (Zen Priest and Life Coach from Atlanta GA) and local Zen Priest Harvey "Daiho" Hilbert join our host for an exploration of pandemic enhanced issues of comfort and discomfort - certainty and uncertainty - and the changes, for better or worse, that these times are bringing into our individual and collective considerations.
Stuart Kelter interviews Meg Weston, a photographer and poet whose frequent subject is volcanoes. Based in Maine, she has traveled around the world pursuing her desire, as she puts it, to witness the power and beauty of the earth in its raw processes of creation and transformation. Her poetry and photography express her connection to the earth in all its sensual, emotional, and spiritual power. Meg’s images can be seen on her website www.volcanoes.com. In 2020, she and Kathrin Seitz cofounded ThePoetsCorner.org, an online forum to bring together poets worldwide, to “bring community to the often solitary yet transformational experience of writing poetry and prose.”
Rev. Abhi Janamachi and Rev. Katie Romano Griffin were guests on Take On Faith. They serve as senior and associate minister at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda, MD. You’ll love this lively talk with host Rev. Xolani Kacela.
Las Cruces Bulletin writer Mike Cook (with The Buzzman) gives a recap of the week's news, provides a preview of the week ahead and highlights some of the articles in the new issue of the newspaper.
 New Mexico state senator Bill O’Neill returned to the show to chat with Lynn Moorer about Short Session, sequel to Panoramic Diaries, which picks up idealistic protagonist Chapman Murphy’s life ten years later. As Murphy tries to marshal forces to obtain a significant appropriation from the New Mexico legislature during a short session for his beloved halfway house, Hope House, which faces closure without it, he recalls his recent unsuccessful candidacy for State Senate, including several comical encounters with potential donors, and ponders how he can create a better world.
Las Cruces City Manager Ifo Pili joined us in the studio and answered a wide range of questions
Novelist and memorist David Stuart MacLean appeared on Speak Up Las Cruces to talk about his reading Friday at NMSU, in the La Sociedad para las Artes Nelson-Boswell series. He has a new novel that came out in January this year, and his The Answer to the Riddle is Me: a Memoir of Amnesia is a non-fiction book about waking up on a train depot in India without a clue who he is. Fortunately, he’s since learned or re-learned who he is, and will tell us a bit about that rather strange experience.
 New NMSU trumpet and jazz professor Jacob Dalager joined us by phone to discuss inaugural Jumpstart Jazz Festival scheduled for this Friday and Saturday.
Last week, the New Mexico Legislature finally passed a rule banning guns in the state Capitol building. Now, they need to provide that same common-sense protection for local school boards and city councils.
Cafe Con Leche: Jennifer Olguin and Dylan McDonald on Urban Renewal in Las Cruces from 1960 to 197511/9/2021
 Like many US cities in the '60s, Las Cruces tried to revitalize its fading downtown with radical urban renewal practices, such as destroying residential Adobe homes with modern commercial buildings and replacing it with a pedestrian mall designed for retail.
Jennifer Olguin and Dylan McDonald, who both work in the special collections section of the NMSU library, have curated an exhibit at the Brannigan Center called "Place and Replace: Las Cruces Urban Renewal 1960 - 1975". They spoke to Nan Rubin about the exhibit and the long-term impact of these fateful decisions. |
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