Earth Matters / Keep It in the Ground

Earth Matters / Keep It in the Ground

Donna Stevens, Executive Director of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance, talks with climate activists Debaura James and Ben Kieler about the "KING" / Keep It in the Ground and Break Free from Fossil Fuels movements. Activists worldwide are working to keep the remaining fossil fuels buried in the ground where they cannot further exacerbate climate change. Dirty energy, renewable energy, climate disruption, global activism, environmental (in)justice: all are topics discussed […]

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Use Your Words!

Use Your Words! / Bonnie Maldonado

Welcome to the maiden voyage of Use Your Words! / Writers Speak with your host, 2nd and current Silver City, New Mexico Poet Laureate, Elise Stuart. Elise's premier guest is none other than Silver City's 1st Poet Laureate, Bonnie Maldonado, a great talent, well loved, and admired not only for her creative gifts, but for the example of a life of purpose and principle, well lived, a social activist, academic, […]

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Earth Matters

Earth Matters /
Stream Dynamics – San Vicente Creek Restoration

Earth Matters co-producer and Gila Resources Information Project director Allyson Siwik talks to Van Clothier and Claire Catlett of Stream Dynamics about restoration work on San Vicente Creek under the Hudson Street Bridge. Stream Dynamics, a local company that specializes in riparian and wetland restoration, was awarded a contract with the NM Department of Transportation to restore the creek now that the new bridge is finished. Using other funding, the company is […]

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Silver Consolidated Schools

Silver Consolidated Schools / 26 May 2016 / Streib Buyout

Welcome to our special coverage of the Silver Consolidated Schools Special Board Meeting of Thursday 26 May 2016. The last few weeks have produced a dizzying sequence of unexpected - and seemingly explainable - events culminating with the dispatch of Lon Streib as Superintendent under a $60,000 contract buyout agreement and the appointment of John Carter as the Acting Superintendent. The agenda is available from the SCS website. Many questions […]

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Civil Discourse

Civil Discourse /
NM Representative / District 38 / Democrats

GMCR presents the forum for candidates for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the New Mexico House of Representatives / 38th District and held at the Grant County Administration Center on 5 May 2016. GMCR thanks the sponsors of this event – the Silver City Daily Press, Community Access Television of Silver, and Grant County. The candidates are... Karen Whitlock Mary Hotvedt Questions from the audience and the Silver City Daily […]

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Civil Discourse

Civil Discourse /
6th Judicial District Attorney

GMCR presents the forum for candidates for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the 6th Judicial District Attorney - inclusive of Grant, Hidalgo, and Luna counties - and held at the Grant County Administration Center on 12 May 2016. GMCR thanks the sponsors of this event – the Silver City Daily Press, Community Access Television of Silver, and Grant County. The candidates are... Francesca Estevez (incumbent) Michael R. Renteria (challenger) Questions […]

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Civil Discourse

Civil Discourse /
Grant County Commission /
Districts 3 & 5 Candidate Roundtable

Welcome to Civil Discourse, hosted by retired San Francisco State University social psychology professor and GMCR board chair, Jamie Newton. Civil Discourse presents the Grant County Commission Candidate Roundtable which took place took place at GMCR / KURU 89.1 FM - and was broadcast live - on Tuesday 17 May 2016. Jamie's guests were 3 of the 5 contenders for the Democratic Party nomination for Districts 3 & 5 of […]

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Civil Discourse

Civil Discourse /
Grant County Commission /
District 4 Candidate Roundtable

Welcome to Civil Discourse, hosted by retired San Francisco State University social psychology professor and GMCR board chair, Jamie Newton. Civil Discourse presents the Grant County Commission Candidate Roundtable which took place took place at GMCR / KURU 89.1 FM - and was broadcast live - on Wednesday 11 May 2016. Jamie's guests were the 4 contenders for the Democratic Party nomination for District 4 of the newly expanded 5 […]

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Civil Discourse

Civil Discourse /
Grant County Commission /
WNMU Candidate Forum

GMCR presents the Grant County Commission Candidate Forum which took place at WNMU Miller Library on 28 April 2016. The forum panelists were the candidates competing for the Democratic Party nominations for their respective districts in the newly expanded 5 seat County Commission. It is another of the continuing 3rd Thursday series of forums presented by the Grant County Democratic Party and the MECHA student organization addressing a range of […]

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Tobin in the Afternoon

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