Newly elected Las Cruces City Council members Becki Graham and Becky Corran discussed their expectations upon joining the council. Their wins in the November election, along with that of incumbent Yvonne Flores, will mean that all six council members will be women for the first time in the city’s history.
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Rep. Nathan Small, vice chair of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee, discussed the nearly $500 million spent in the special session that recently concluded, and looked ahead to the 30-day session that starts Jan. 18, when lawmakers are expected to have about $1.6 billion in additional revenue compared to this year.
Local resident Bob Hearn will discuss the dispute between Sheriff Kim Stewart and County Manager Fernando Macias. She is opposing his order to require all employees to return to the workplace.
Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman started the show talking about several topics, including their memories of John Madden and Harry Reid.
This morning's guest, Rob Baur, shares some of his thinking on genuinely fundamental human considerations. His thoughts touch on parenting, the importance of being clear and candid with ourselves about who we really are, and what we bring to the world around us. The conversation also explores the influence of media that amplify angst and consternation - and why we may benefit from the practice of immersing ourselves, at least equally, in gratitude, joy, awe and wonder.
Stuart Kelter interviews Susannah Sirkin, the director of policy and a senior advisor at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), where she has worked since 1987. From 1992 to 2001 she served as a member of the Coordination Committee of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which was the co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace. She has organized health and human rights investigations in dozens of countries, documenting genocide and systematic rape in Darfur, Sudan; exhumations of mass graves in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; attacks on health care facilities in Syria, Yemen, and other war zones; and Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s. In 2019 and again in 2020, she addressed the U.N. Security Council about the deliberate targeting of hospitals in Syria.
Take On Faith co-hosts, Rev. Xolani Kacela and Rev. Carolyn Wilkins, engage one another for a year-in-review conversation about 2021. They discuss the events that influenced them, their religious communities, and the world beyond Las Cruces. Join in for a lively discussion.
 Kris Neri, award-winning writer and instructor, talked with Lynn Moorer about Dem Bones’ Revenge, the second book in her Tracy Eaton Mystery series. Characterizing her book as one of the most enjoyable to write, Kris created another madcap adventure centered around Tracy Eaton, a mystery writer and wannabe detective whose aging movie star mother, Martha Collins—the bane of Tracy’s existence, is accused of killing an untalented script writer. Tracy’s attorney husband, Drew, becomes involved as well as her movie star father, Alec Grainger—each trying to clear Martha’s name. In her search for the truth, Tracy’s unorthodox detecting digs up secrets and resentments in her mother’s past which threaten her life.
NM House Majority Whip Doreen Gallegos discussed the special session of the Legislature, which ended Friday. The special session focused primarily on redistricting, but also included the appropriation of nearly $500 million in federal relief funding. Sen. Joseph Cervantes joined us later in the hour.
Diana Alba Soular and Rashad Mahmood of the Local News Fund discussed their efforts to fill in the gaps in community journalism caused by the decline of traditional media like hometown newspapers and radio stations. KTAL Is among those who have been helped by the fund.
Speak Up Las Cruces: Walt and Peter Talk About Joe Manchin and Other News Items (December 22, 2021)12/22/2021
Walt Rubel and Peter Goodman started the show talking about Joe Machin coming out again President Biden's Build Back Better bill and the latest from the January 6 committee.
A few weeks ago, when the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus was sweeping through Africa and just beginning to make its presence known here, the dimmest members of the anti-vax crowd suggested that the global wave of death and illness was really just a ploy by the Democrats to win a few more House seats in next year’s mid-term election.
“Here comes the MEV - the midterm election variant. Democrats will do anything to cheat during an election, but we won’t let them,” proclaimed Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, who is likely best known for the Saturday Night Live parody of his absurd fawning over Donald Trump’s medical report when he was the White House physician. If this whole thing really is a ploy by the Democrats to maintain control of the House of Representatives, it’s a doozy. And I sure wish they’d call it off. In February of 2020, acclaimed local author Denise Chávez submitted a story to New Mexico Magazine called ‘”Libros para el Viaje” or “Books for the Journey”, about the history of travel on El Camino Real and across New Mexico southern border and the healing power of books.
The article was approved for publication in the April 2020 edition. But just a few weeks later when the magazine was on the way to the printer, the article was pulled with no particular explanation at the direction of someone in the New Mexico Department of Tourism which publishes the magazine. In a cascading effect, editor Alicia Inez Guzman was forced to resign, at the same time that writers and artists from across the state lobbied fiercely to have the article reinstated, declaring this the most blatant act of government censorship. The magazine did a quick turnaround and reinstated the article, and Ms Guzman recently won a major lawsuit against the state for pressuring her to resign. Denise Chavez joined Nan Rubîn live in the studio to recount the events of the story and the ripple effects it is having both statewide and nationally. This episode of Think Again features a conversation with guest Siddeeq Shabazz. Siddeeq reflects upon his thinking and personal growth process as a Black man, and as a Black Christian man, particularly since the murder of George Floyd. This candid conversation spans considerations of race, language, divisive and polarizing "ism's" and "ologies", as well as Christian faith values and principles, as he sees them being practiced and applied (or not), during our challenging times.
 Lisa Lucca talks with actress, producer, writer, and healer Jane Sibbett about love, life, art, and the magic of delivering our gifts.
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