Newsmakers

Election 2020: New Mexico GOP Primary U.S. House District 2 Forum with moderator Fred Martino. The show features three candidates running for the Republican nomination in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District: Claire Chase, Yvette Herrell, and Chris Mathys.

This week, Newsmakers host Fred Martino sits down for an in depth discussion with James Millward of Georgetown University on China and the current state of affairs.  

  

 

This week, Newsmakers speaks with Oscar Arriaga of the U.S. Census Bureau and Manuel Sanchez, Vice Chair Doña Ana County Commission on the up coming census.  

 

This week on Newsmakers, Fred Martino sits down with Paul Gessing, president of the Rio Grande Foundation, to discuss New Mexico's state budget which was set at this year's legislative session.

This week, Newsmakers looks at an RV that tours America gathering health data, and Living Here finds out the true story of Smokey Bear.

This week, Newsmakers looks at a young man’s story of domestic violence, and Living Here samples some Las Cruces food trucks.

This week, Newsmakers examines the Las Cruces Child Trauma Summit and Living Here visits an area beekeeper to sample the honey. 

This week, Newsmakers looks at the Las Cruces Minimum Wage impact analysis and we visit the current and new site of the University Art Gallery. 

This week, Newmakers looks at efforts to repeal the New Mexico tax on Social Security income and we visit the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces.  

This week on Newsmakers; Fred Martino sits down for an in-depth discussion with Gail Evans, Lead Counsel, Yazzie v. State of New Mexico. As a result of the lawsuit, the state was required to improve educational services. 

On this edition of Newsmakers Fred Martino speaks with John Robert Smith of Transportation For America. 

This program features a discussion of the recent Las Cruces municipal election and its first use of ranked choice voting. Guests include Heather Ferguson and Mario Jimenez of Common Cause New Mexico, which conducted an exit survey with voters.  

 

This hour-long program features a discussion about efforts to increase civic engagement among young people in the region. Field reports include: A Las Cruces Mayoral Forum hosted by high school students and a voter registration drive organized by students at New Mexico State University.

 

This week on Newsmakers, Fred Martino interviews Minerva Baumann, author of the book “Ordinary Angels: Stories of Daily Life in El Paso del Norte.

 

 

Election 2019: Las Cruces City Council District 1 Forum with moderators Fred Martino from KRWG and Eileen Van Wie from the League of Women Voters of Southern New Mexico. The show features two candidates running for District 1 of Las Cruces and they are: Kasandra A. Gandara and Shelly A. Nichols-Shaw.

Fred Martino speaks with Doña Ana County clerk  Amanda López Askin about ranked choice voting, the new voting procedure being used in the Las Cruces Municipal Election. 

 This week on Newsmakers: The Best of Living Here, featuring a look at some events during the year from Saturday's Farmers and Crafts market in downtown Las Cruces, to the Experimental Aircraft Association that tries to take advantage of the weather all year long, to the Gila River festival that preserves the natural beauty of the area, and finally when summers cools down we heat up with the Hatch Chile festival.

This episode of Newsmakers takes us to a naturalization ceremony at the Las Cruces Convention Center, where nearly 200 people became U.S. citizens.  Also:  a report on a class at New Mexico State University that draws students from across the country to work for immigrant rights on the border.  

 

This week on Newsmakers, Fred Martino interviews former New Mexico Education Secretary Dr. Karen Trujillo.  They discuss the challenges facing New Mexico as it tries to improve education in the state.