Peter Goodman and Shirley Baca started the show talking about redistricting, complete streets and requiring gun owners to buy insurance for their weapons.
Democrats in the state Legislature were able to tilt the playing field to their side this year for the first time in three decades, and they have taken full advantage of it.
The last two times our state has gone through the redistricting process that happens every 10 years after the Census, the power of the Legislature was checked by Republican governors Garrey Carruthers and Susana Martinez. That led to expensive court battles both years, where the final district maps were drawn. Today's Think Again program features as our guest, Clay Pelot. Clay is a much-appreciated volunteer as an audio engineer with KTAL, and a guy who thinks about a lot of things. The conversation ranges across a spectrum of considerations, including how we think about media, race, education, literacy and more. A fun conversation with one of KTAL's own.
Lisa Lucca has a conversation with Joshua and Adam from the enlightening podcast, notesonyournotes.com, about delving into the creative process. Stuart Kelter interviews Dean Buonomano, a neuroscientist at UCLA since 1998, and a leading researcher of the neuroscience of time. His first book, Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Buonomano is the rare combination of cutting edge researcher and talented and engaging communicator of science to the general public. He has been interviewed about his research on timing and neural computation for Newsweek, Discover Magazine, Scientific American, The New Yorker and on NPR’s Fresh Air. His most recent book, Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time was published in 2017 and is the subject of today’s interview.
Awarding-winning author and writer-in-residence at Western New Mexico University JJ Amaworo Wilson joined Lynn Moorer to discuss his work of literary fiction Nazaré, which draws upon his multi-lingual background and experience living in many countries in creating a story about a fearless orphan boy, Kin, who becomes the leader of an oppressed people living near the sea. Interweaving magical realism, absurdity, irony, humorous surprises, and hope, the story traces a people’s revolution to free itself from tyranny. Michael and Beth Medina, local bodybuilders who have competed at the national and international level, discussrf their health and fitness routines as well as the skin care products company that they started here in 2019.
Ellie Rushforth, an attorney with the New Mexico ACLU who is focused on women’s reproductive rights issues, will discuss the Supreme Court hearings last week on a Mississippi law that would limit abortion rights. During oral arguments, many justices implied that the court should go even further and repeal Roe v Wade.
Norman Lewis discussed his performance of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, now running at the Las Cruces Community Theater. Lewis is both the narrator and the voice of more than 20 characters in this one-man reading.
Speak Up Las Cruces: Walt and Shirley Talk About KTAL and the Latest News (December 8, 2021)12/8/2021
Walt Rubel and Shirley Baca started the show talking about KTAL and the redistricting process in New Mexico.
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