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Speak Up Las Cruces: December 30, 2020

12/30/2020

 
Here are the topics discussed on this week's Speak Up, Las Cruces.

In the beginning of the show, co-hosts Peter Goodman and Walter Rubel talked a bit about the recently-released report on misconduct (possibly criminal) by certain former city employees – and we’ll return to that subject twice during the 9-10 hour, with each of two city councilors.

For the rest of the first hour, Peter and Walt discussed the Academy for Learning in Retirement’s interesting Spring 2021 Program with Jeffrey Brown, a member of the board, and also with three of the scheduled presenters this spring, Barbara Skype Boyd (“The Wisdom Years: A Guide to Intentional Aging”), Ken Hammond (Southeast Asia), and Joe Roach (Russia & Ukraine)

At the beginning of the second hour, they did a Cruces Coronavirus Update.

For the last 45 minutes, they talked about the recently released report on misconduct by former city employees with City Councilor Kassandra Gandara,  Las Cruces restaurant owner Marci Dickerson (who's mentioned in the report) and City Councilor Gill Sorg.

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Walt Rubel Commentary: A salute to the helpers in this horrible year

12/30/2020

 
This is the time of year when people all over the world join in a collective wish that next year will be better than this one. Never in my lifetime has that bar been set so low. Former children’s TV host Fred Rogers famously passed along the advice his mother gave him when he was a child and images on the TV news were frightening and confusing. Always look for the helpers, she said. In any disaster, there will always be people helping others get through it.

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Cafe Con Leche: Susan Greenwald

12/29/2020

 
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Although COVID has forced the Downtown Las Cruces Partnership to cancel its most popular events, including the New Year’s Chile Drop and the Zombie Walk in October, the DLCP has been busy continuing to support downtown business. Community Coordinator Susan Greenwald visits with Nan Rubin to bring us up to date on their activities supporting the creative economy with new programs, including Downtown Artists-In-Residence and establishing the Arts and Culture District.


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Think Again: Randy Harris and Keith Whelpley

12/28/2020

 
In today's "Think Again" conversation, host Randy Harris and guest Keith Whelpley explore some of the linguistic, emotional and cognitive forces in play when we use slogans, hash-tags, and bumper-sticker language. We examine and question the potential for spawning inaccurate assumptions (cognitive shortcuts) that may actually impede genuinely effective responses to genuinely serious issues.

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Coronavirus Update: Guest Sam Hancock

12/28/2020

 
MaryAnn Digman interviews Sam Hancock, a board member, volunteer and spokesperson for El Caldito on the Community of Hope campus. Sam shares the mission of El Caldito and describes how their services/ processes have changed since the COVID 19 pandemic. Sam updates listeners on how we can be of greatest assistance to El Caldito and our neighbors less fortunate than we are and how easy it is to volunteer!

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Live True: Take Your Broken Heart, Make It Into Art

12/24/2020

 
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Lisa Lucca talks with writer and maker, Marise Phillips, about losing a loved one during this difficult year, the healing power of making art with a broken heart, and how Marie Kondo has helped her through it.  


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Speak Up Las Cruces: Cruces Coronavirus Update with Mark Stribich

12/23/2020

 
Nationally-known infectious diseases epidemiologist Mark Stribich of Xenex joined Peter and Walt for this week's Coronavirus Update segment. He brought his knowledge from working on HIV and ebola to bear on our questions about the pandemic, opine on where we are, how the situation has been handled, and other issues, but also discussed the special “bacteria-zapping robots” now widely in use to disinfect hospital rooms and ER’s, all based on an invention of Mark’s and his late wife’s. (She was also a noted epidemiologist.)

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Speak Up Las Cruces: Sunny Aris of Animal Village N.M.

12/23/2020

 
Sunny Aris of Animal Village N.M. will join Peter and Walt to discuss the situation with abandoned dogs in New Mexico and the problems of rescuing mistreated dogs, all of which the pandemic has exacerbated.

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Speak Up Las Cruces: Russia expert Joe Roach

12/23/2020

 
Peter and Walt talked with Russia expert Joe Roach about the recent problem with Russian hacking of U.S. Government computer systems.

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Walt Rubel Commentary: Let’s put the lone in the Lone Star State

12/23/2020

 
When I heard that the chairman of the Texas Republican Party wanted to secede from the union, I had the same thought as when then-Gov. Rick Perry floated the idea in 2009. What can we do to give them a nudge?  I wrote a column back then suggesting a new federal law prohibiting oversized belt buckles. I think we should do whatever we can to turn all that big talk into action.

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