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First News: Legislative session half over and still no budget deal. (listen) Halfway through this year's regular 30 day legislative session, lawmakers still have no firm budget for next year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website School purchase plan up in the air (Listen) No progress yet in Santa Fe's plan to buy the historic St. Catherine's Indian School and lease it to a charter high school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Meixoc bill to ban Shariah law (Listen) A conservative state senator from southern New Mexico has introduced a memorial that suggests that some religious or cultural ideas foreign to the United States might be trying to invade the U.S, judicial system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First News: Teenager said to be rescued (Listen) Reports from Albuquerque say a 15-year-old boy has been rescued by helicopter after he broke his leg on a weekend hike. He was among a group of five that became stuck on a steep slope in the Sandia foothills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First News: Gov. Martinez not happy with drivers license bill (Listen) The debate over New Mexico's drivers license law for immigrants continues at the Roundhouse. A state representative from southern New Mexico introduced the governor's hoped-for bill in committee but it immediately went through a number of changes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan 25 At Noon midday report (Listen) On KSFR's midday report: New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez says the state is dead last when it comes to being business-competitive. We talk with a tax think-tank responsible for that report. They knew it was flawed from the outset. Is Santa Fe's photo enforcement speed van a money grab? Reaction to Pres. Obama's State of the Union. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First News: City council approves buying historic school (Listen) Santa Fe city council has agreed to move forward with plans for the city's purchase of the old St. Catherine's Indian School campus and, in turn, the subsequent leasing to the charter New Mexico School for the Arts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First News: A special drivers license for foreign nationals has been proposed (listen) A Democratic lawmaker from Albuquerque proposes giving foreign nationals a provisional drivers license only good within New Mexico. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan 24 At Noon midday report On KSFR's At Noon midday report, officials of the League of Women Voters sound off about the downside of voter photo IDs. U.S. Sen. Tom Udall puts a high priority on campaign finance report. More than a hundred years ago, New Mexico lawmakers settled their arguments the old fashioned way -- with guns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First News: Prof. says voter IDs could suppress vote (Listen) As the voter ID question heats up in the legislature, panelists at a League of Women Voters forum in Santa Fe argued last night that the proposal could lead to disallowing the vote large numbers of the state's voting population. UNM professor Gabriel Sanchez says his study of more than 4,000 registered voters nationwide yielded evidence that many U.S. citizens in New Mexico could not easily meet the photo ID requriements under state legislation being considered.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan 23 At Noon midday report (Listen) The U.S. Senate is back at work and we'll get Sen. Jeff Bingaman's take on several issues surrounding internet freedom. The latest one is an international treaty that negotiators don't believe requires Senate approval, as do other treaties. We'll meet the man whose name stands above Santa Fe's Franklin Miles Park. And does that wintry mix coming tonight and tomorrow spell the end of the dry spell? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First News: Santa Fe legislators hope to increase state's revenue (Listen) Two state lawmakers from Santa Fe are promoting legislation they say will help New Mexico increase its revenue stream. Making the rounds of committees is a bill by State Sen. Peter Wirth that would remove a loophole that allows some out-of-state corporations to avoid paying taxes on the profits they make in New Mexico. State Rep. Brian Egolf is among a group of Democrats seeking to raise the maximum cap on the annual payout available to filmmakers who shoot movies in the state. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demand, not deals, drives New Mexico oil and gas industry (Listen again) New Mexico's economy seems to be like the rest of the nation - it's growing but just barely. An economist from NMSU says he forecasts the New Mexico economy will add between 8,000 and 12,000 jobs this year, just enough to keep heads above water. Professor Jim Peach joins us on the line. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First News: The state's film rebate program again under discussion (listen) New Mexico's film rebate program is quietly coming up again at the Roundhouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman, Udall still back controversial PIPA Both of New Mexico's U.S. senators say they are sticking with their endorsement of controversial internet legislation that's up for a vote. Nearly 20 senators have backed away from endorsing the bill, but Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall say they still believe it's necessary to stop online piracy. Internet user groups say the law could lead to government-backed policing of what is now a free-speech mechanism Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan 19 At Noon midday report (Listen again) That huge nuclear weapons facility being built at the Los Alamos national lab has been the subject of criticism by local nuclear watchdog groups. Now a federal watchdog group is calling for it to be shut down. New Mexico's adult literacy rate is among the worst the nation. We'll find out what advocates are seeking as they talk with state lawmakers. And another in our series on what ordinary people think about political issues - this time, drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NM House Speaker Lujan reveals he has cancer The speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives has opened this year's legislative session with a stunning announcement. Rep. Ben Lujan says he has been battling lung cancer for several years and now finds that he cannot continue performing his duties. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Japanese inmates in Santa Fe (Listen again) A documentary filmmaker with ties to New Mexico has completed a film about a prison camp in Santa Fe that housed men of Japanese ancestry taken prisoner on U.S. soil following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Some of the men were U.S. citizen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judge denies further court action on oil-gas drilling rule (Listen again) A state district judge has decided to allow New Mexico officials to proceed with hearings on whether to change a controversial rule set in place during the Richardson administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politicans don't but some NM students are able to "debate" (Listen again) The word political "debate" has morphed into something virtually indigestible, much like a healthy salad becoming a gooey marshmallow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dec 17 At Noon Weekend edition (Listen) State Sen. Peter Wirth to ask some big out-of-state corporations to pay New Mexico income tax... Poll says Hispanic support of the Affordable Care Act is high ... How many species will be identified in Santa Fe during the Audubon Society's Christmas bird count... A seeming bright spot on the local economic scene... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe County land development codes moving slowly (Listen again) Years in the making, Santa Fe County's Sustainable Land Development Plan is ready but the draft regulations governing it are moving slowly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Air Force unclear over when low-level flights might begin (Listen again) Opponents of the Air Force plan for low-level training flights over the state say they are unswayed by remarks made today by the commander of Cannon Air Force Base. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PNM document reveals possible pollution strategy (Listen again) KSFR News reports on an internal PNM document detailing how the company may ask the state legislature for approval of a method the company could use to pay for costs of environmental cleanup. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Debate over fracking heats up (Listen again) It wasn't that long ago that few ordinary people had ever heard of the term Fracking....much less knowing what it is. That's no longer the case. It's become headline news in some parts of the nation and of debate in the halls of congress. When oil and gas drillers insert a water and chemical mixture into their wells, it's designed to fracture the rock to make it easier for the oil or gas to flow out and into the well bore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art, fashion show made of recyclables (Listen again) This art and fashion show was all "garbage," but it attracted a huge audience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Day looks at the life of Kell Robertson (Listen again) One of Santa Fe's colorful characters has died. KSFR's Joe Day just missed the chance to interview him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alternative fuel for military aircraft part of the military's plans in NM and elsewhere (Listen again) The Air Force has a big prsence in New Mexico, where locally produced alternative jet fuel may soon be powering some if not all of those aircraft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Udall attacks "attack" ads, campaign money (Listen again) Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico has introduced federal legislation aimed at removing big money from politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe "occupy" protestors do it again (Listen again) Occupy protests around the nation have been met with a range of local, municipal reactions, some of them with armed confrontation by the authorities. Santa Fe's group has seen nothing if not a polite response from the police and mayor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website River project: Restoration or creation? (Listen again) At least one farmer on a southern stretch of the Santa Fe River is not pleased with the restoration of the Santa Fe River that now has thousands of willow trees and hundreds of beaver, where there were none before. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will village's post office be closed? (Listen again) It's crunch time for the little village of Villanueva, just about 50 odd miles southeast of Santa Fe. Some 200 people live in this remote town. And the post office they've had for more than 120 years is up for being cut as part of the postal service's program to save on expenses. Jessie Torres runs the only other big operation in town, general store. We asked her about the prospects for keeping the tiny post office open. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website After KSFR investigation, MVD website now clear on drivers license law KSFR News has forced a change to the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division website that will be helpful to people looking for information on how to update their drivers licenses records with their newly changed addresses. The change may also answer why the MVD had several thousand pieces of mail sent to foreign drivers with licenses returned because the mail was undeliverable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NM tax secretary says may be a problem The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division website does not command drivers license holders to report promptly a change of address. We ask the Taxation Department cabinet secretary, who oversees the MVD, whether this could be a contributing factor to the large number of mailed pieces to foreign national being returned as "undeliverable." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As possible impeachment proceedings gather steam, the PRC's Jerome Block, Jr. alludes to his possible resignation. Embattled PRC member Jerome Block, Jr. says he's mulling resignation rather than be subjected to impeachment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Survey: New Mexico drivers licenses Could this happen to U.S. citizens who have New Mexico drivers licenses? A judge is allowing the state Motor Vehicle Division to investigate foreign nationals with drivers licenses for possible fraud, largely on the basis that mail sent to them came back as undeliverable. KSFR News offers a survey to determine if New Mexico drivers license requirements are clear to average New Mexicans. Responses so far indicate some U.S. citizens would fall into the "undeliverable" category. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judge order continued halt to N.M. drivers license program (Listen) Judge Sarah Singleton ordered both sides to come back in a week with compromise language for a recertification program that meets the court's requirements. After she issues a preliminary restraining order, the judge will consider a full evidentiary hearing on the matter, probably sometime next year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Day finds saxophonist at Farmers Market (Listen again) Live music at Santa Fe's Farmers Market generally is in tune with the downhome, rural, agricultural nature of the market. But not always, as Joe Day finds out..... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TV-show drama in a local courtroom (Listen again) KSFR's Charles Maynard reports that the courthouse scene at the sentencing hearing of former sheriff Greg Solano had all the drama of a television court show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martinez says grandparents entered U.S. illegally (Listen) Gov. Susana Martinez has admitted for the first time her grandparents were illegal immigrants back in the 1920s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman: LANL needs to make warhead triggers (Listen again) Sen. Jeff Bingaman says new triggers for nuclear warheads should be built at Los Alamos National Laboratory, despite the president's plans for worldwide disarmament. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Day finds Books and More Books (Listen again) Out and around Santa Fe, KSFR's Joe Day laments the closing of two Borders bookstores but says Santa Fe is fortunate to have a number of independently owned and managed bookstores, like Books and More Books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's up with Santa Fe and recycling? (Listen again) How did environmentally-conscious Santa Fe achieve a stunningly low recycling rate of just 10 percent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking social services, Pelosi visits Santa Fe (Listen) Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Congressman Ben Ray Lujan for a tour of Santa Fe's Mary Ester Gonzales Senior Center, where they talked about Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Check scams aimed at New Mexicans (Listen and see) Scammers may have found a realistic-looking way to try to separate you from your money. The state attorney general says they're creating checks for large amounts of money and sending them to individuals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martinez administration faces immigrants' lawsuit (Listen) An immigrant rights group is asking a state judge to immediately stop a program that requires some foreign nationals to re-prove their residency in New Mexico in order to keep their drivers licenses. David Urias is a private-practice lawyer representing the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education fund. He says state lawmakers never intended to single out one class of individuals in this way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Visits the kind of neighborhood grocery store they don't make anymore (Listen) Out and around Santa Fe, KSFR's Joe Day visits the kind of neighborhood grocery store they don't make anymore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Probing the causes of earthquakes. Could man be one? (Listen) A New Mexico professor says one theory of how earthquake faults are stimulated could lay the blame at the feet of people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Could Twitter spot Swine Flu? (Listen) Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory will soon start analyzing public Twitter "tweets" to see if they yield clues to the advancement of epidemics, such as Swine Flu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Readying for suborbital flights out of Spaceport America (Listen) The principal tenant at New Mexico's Spaceport America will be flying inanimate payloads into suborbit, on a contract from NASA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How do you entice students to graduate? (Listen) New Mexico's higher education secretary is looking for ways to increase graduation rates in the state. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Day: Inside the private security guard business in Santa Fe (Listen) He's not exactly a cop, but you probably wouldn't want to mess with this guy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PRC member Jerome Block, Jr., under investigation in auto disappearance (Listen) The name Jerome Block, Jr., is back in the news. Santa Fe police say they have turned over to the state attorney general evidence that the public regulation commissioner may have taken a used car on loan from a dealership and did not return it.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ACLU considering drivers license issue (Listen) The head of the New Mexico ACLU may consider looking into the question of foreign nationals being required to recertify their drivers license documents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Day reports on a hero's welcome home (Listen) KSFR's "Around Santa Fe" reporter reports from the event honoring Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. Leroy Petry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Udall says debt bill "stinks" (Listen) There's been a split among the New Mexico congressional delegation over the debt ceiling vote in Washington. Three Democrats voted for it while one Democrat and one Republican voted no. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Update: NM high court on environmental rule (Listen again) More on that New Mexico Supreme Court ruling handing a seat at the table to environmental groups to be part of discussions of rolling back an emissions rule. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PRC votes to raise electricity rates (Listen) July 28, 12 Noon update: New Mexico's Public Regulation Commission has approved a rate increase for PNM but at a lower amount than the company had requested. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christus workers level charges at hospital (Listen) Santa Fe County Commissioner promise support for unionized hospital workers at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, as they hear charges of possible labor violations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A half year after Santa Fe began takiing water from the Rio Grande (Listen again) More questions are being raised about the capabilities of Santa Fe's Buckman Direct Diversion plant and about the Chemrisk consulting company that gave it a clean bill of health. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website At Los Alamos, a step closer to ethanol (Listen again) Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say they may have found a more efficient way to turn cellulose into ethanol. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fmr. Sheriff Greg Solano pleads guilty, sentencing postponed (Listen) KSFR's Charles Maynard reports (Listen) that former County Sheriff Greg Solano could face as much as 15 years in jail and more than $100,000 in restitution following his guilty plea of embezzlement before a Santa Fe judge today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Behind" the Spanish Spelling Bee (Listen again) A fascinating story behind how the first-ever National Spanish Spelling Bee took shape in New Mexico, took hold and took off..... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fean tries to run Israeli blockade of Gaza (Liisten again) Ken Mayers is one of two Santa Feans just back from Greece and their failed attempt to run the Israeli blockade of Gaza. He describes their objective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Int'l Folk Art Market to break records (Look and Listen) When the final numbers are in, the 2011 edition of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market will probably break all records. Organizers say the Friday evening preview session drew a crowd that was nearly 18 percent larger than last year. Sales were up, too, to about $500,000 for the evening. KSFR's reporter spent time at the market.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KSFR asks: What should America's priorities be after July 4? (Listen again) A big crowd gathered on the 400-year-old Santa Fe plaza for the annual Fourth of July celebrations. KSFR's Ellen Dupuy spoke with a number of people to get their opinions on what America's priorities should be on July 5th and afterward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Los Alamos residents: don't jump the gun to come home (Listen) Los Alamos police chief warns Los Alamos evacuees not to try to return to town before officials say it's all right. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NM State Rep. Egolf briefing at Los Alamos command center (Listen) June 29 -- State Rep. Brian Egolf of Santa Fe says he's impressed with the operation of the joint Las Conchas fire command center at the Los Alamos national lab. He also warns about fake photos and information circulating on the internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 29 Los Alamos status briefing (Listen) The latest press briefing from Los Alamos officials, including the laboratory director, fire chief, police chief and county administrator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1 p.m. Las Conchas fire update (Listen) June 28, 1 p.m. -- June 28, 1 p.m. update - KSFR's Charles Maynard reports from Los Alamos that power is still on to businesses and residences, even though most of the city's population of 18,000 have evacuated. The police chief says the town is secure, and there are patrols of police and national guard troops. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Los Alamos County orders evacuation (listen) JUNE 27, 2 P.M. The Los Alamos County administrator says they've ordered an evacuation, in stages, of Los Alamos County. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fire afficionado creates first Las Conchas fire map (listen again) A retired wildfire manager from South Dakota publishes the first map of the Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 27, 1 p.m. Los Alamos fire update (listen again) KSFR's Charles Maynard reports from a press conference where the chief assesses the risk to the public and to the Los Alamos lab. Plus first official map of the Las Conchas fire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NM Supreme Court hands governor a defeat The New Mexico Supreme Court has handed another defeat to Gov. Susana Martinez, agreeding that a line-item veto she made to a bill was illegal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20 percent error rate in insurance payments to doctors (Listen again) An Albuqeurque oncologist says big health insurance companies too often make errors on their payments to health care providers. She says it costs the health care system dearly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Mexico communities seeing coyotes come to town (Listen again) Wildlife biologist: No surprise the coyotes are moving closer into towns and cities. He says the best approach is to understand and co-exist with them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Medical marijuana convention coming to ABQ (Listen again) An Albuquerque production company has come up with a plan to capitalize on the interest in medical marijuana in New Mexico. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wildearth Guardians sues EPA over PNM plant (Listen again) A Santa Fe based environmental group is has filed a federal lawsuit about PNM's coal-fired electric-generating power plant. But they not suing PNM. Instead, the suit is targeted at the EPA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NTSB puts blame on pilot error, state police policies An investigation of a fatal helicopter crash in the mountains above Santa Fe nearly two years ago has found blame with both the pilot and the state police organization he worked for. Sgt. Andrew Tingwall piloted the helicopter that crashed on June 9, 2009. He and a female hiker he had gone to rescue were both killed when the aircraft was caught in a sudden storm, at night, at an altitude of nearly 12,000 feet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Work on lowering energy efficiency standards in New Mexico (Listen again) Gov. Martinez says lowering New Mexico's standards for energy efficiency in new homes and commercial buildings would send a message that New Mexico is open for busiiness. We get reaction from a trade association..... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building a "moat" to solve border problems? (Listen) Pres. Obama has called on Republicans to help make it possible for the congress to have a debate on immigration reform and fix the system... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New grist for Birthers? (Listen again) Birthers are sure to take note of a planned visit by Pres. Obama to his ancestral home in Ireland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Air Force oil spill in Albuquerque not clean up yet (Listen again) New Mexico's environment department says it has taken a year to work through all the details of a plan to clean up a massive oil spill sitting on the acquifer beneath Kirtland Air Force Base. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Short story writers get a shot in Santa Fe (Listen again) Aspiring short story writers in Santa Fe now have a place to test and hone their skills. And it doesn't cost even a nickel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Groups confuse Santa Feans about property taxes (Listen again) Potential of a hike in property taxes results in alarming message to Santa Feans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christian Brothers group in bankruptcy not the Santa Fe group (Listen again) Bankruptcy of the North American Chapter of the Christian Brothers has no effect to the De La Salle order in Santa Fe. They're kin in name only. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Low cost solar could be near in Santa Fe (Listen again) Santa Fe County officials say they are nearing completion of a pilot program to determine how and when to offer low-cost financing of alternative-energy systems to businesses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LANL's plutonium lab complex is at the heart of a matter in federal court this morning (Listen again) An Albuquerque federal court today hears more on the Los Alamos National Laboratory's plutonium complex facing a lawsuit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigration stories through art (Watch) How did some of the immigrants in Santa Fe get here? A new art exihibit at the Santa Fe Community College tells the stories of 20 of them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Should PNM reduce emissions 20% or 80%? (Listen again) PNM, EPA and environm,environmental groups tussle over pollution emissions at the company's San Juan generating station. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hydrogen fuel cell advance at Los Alamos (Listen again) Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a way to avoid the use of expensive platinum in hydrogen fuel cells, the environmentally friendly devices that might replace current power sources in everything from personal data devices to automobiles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe County rules confuse (Listen again) A patchwork of rules governing development in Santa Fe County is causing confusion among developers and individuals trying to plan for new projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Unconstitutional" line item veto? (Listen again) When Gov. Martinez issued a line-item veto of a tax bill did she inadvertently trigger a tax increase? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aliens from "The Vault" (Listen again) It's one of the world's most fascinating tales. The story of a flying saucer that deposited what are thought to have been aliens in Roswell, New Mexico, more than 50 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Craft beers headline NM festival (Listen again) Festivals abount, so it must be springtime in New Mexico. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PNM fights huge pollution controls (Listen again) PNM rejected New Mexico's 20-percent carbon reduction proposal at its San Juan coal-fired power plant. That resulted in the EPA taking a look and requiring an 80-percent reduction. Now, PNM wants to go back. But can it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Riggs" may get special lunch (Listen) Governor's dog could be in for a treat at a bill-signing session at a Santa Fe cafe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Age, Herpes, Alzheimers (Listen again) UNM researchers correlate the increased risk of contracting the Herpes virus as people get older with symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Udall says reduce U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan to save "trillion" (Listen again) U.S. Sen. Tom Udall says the Republican House budget misses obvious fixes that wouldn't hurt New Mexico's middle and lower income citizens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State tax breaks for some, not all, disputed (Listen again) A rare example of bipartisan legislative support in the recent session of New Mexico lawmakers resulted in approval of a bill to bring a Union Pacific hub to the state in exchange for tax breaks. Most members voted yes. We talk with one who voted no. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman reacts to budget cuts without revenue enhancements (Listen again) U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman on the budget, BP and backup systems for U.S. nuclear reactors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What about Albuquerque's largest air carrier? (Listen again) Southwest has removed much of its air fleet for safety inspections. What's the impact on Albuquerque's Sunport, where Southwest is the largest carrier? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bioneers competing for national award (Listen again) The environmental group The Bioneers is based in Santa Fe but known around the world. They're up for a prestigious national award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Record drought in New Mexico (Listen again) The first two months of 2011 have been the driest on record for most of New Mexico. Is there relief in sight? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biggest radioactive spill in U.S. history was in New Mexico (Listen again) As concern in the U.S. continues over the nuclear-reactor crisis in Japan, what few remember is that the biggest radioactive spill in U.S. history happened right here in New Mexico. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Official: New Mexicans face no radioactive iodine threat (Listen again) Iodine tablets in the U.S., especially in New Mexico, wouldn't help reduce the threat of radiocative iodine from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secretary of State says she's meeting with AG on voter fraud (Listen again) The issue of voter fraud comes up from time to time in New Mexico. This time it's brought up by the newly elected Republican Secretary of State. Dianna Duran says she's meeting with the state attorney general on the issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Too much "screen" time not good for N.M. teens (Listen again) What happens when teens spend too much time in front of computer and other digital screens? Not much -- that's good. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wirth blasts drivers license debate as political Listen again) One of Gov. Susana Martinez' big campaign initiatives has been defeated in the state senate. Members approved a plan to allow foreign nationals to get drivers licenses by showing a tax I.D. number and by being fingerprinted as part of the process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gov. Martinez already forms election committee (Listen again) As drivers the drivers license debate continues in the New Mexico legislature, we learn from Gov. Martinez' lawyers that her use of campaign funds to lobby for legislation is proper because her previous election campaign committee now constitutes her ongoing election committee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martinez' "mom and pop" business task force questioned (Listen again) An internet journalist from Albuquerque has obtained Martinez administration documents that shed light on how big industry is helping define the governor's business agenda and how they might handle "trouble-some" state employees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NM Secretary of State Diana Duran will conduct a formal investigation on the legality of Governor Martinez' use of leftover campaign funds for political radio ads. Duran says she presently believes no laws were broken. Governor Martinez' use of leftover campaign funds to produce political action radio ads will be formally investigated by the Secretary of State's office following a number of complaints. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Did governor's drivers license ad violate state law? (Listen again)) Questions are being raised about the source of funds used to pay for a political ad from the governor's office. It asks the public to pressure lawmakers into voting "up or down" on the question of drivers licenses for foreign nationals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hundreds gather for protest at N.M. Roundhouse (Listen again) Protestors in Wisconsin have been at it for more than a week. The issue is similar to one in New Mexico, but the local issue has gotten little if any media attention so far. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman to retire (Listen) New Mexico's senior U.S. senator says he doesn't plan to run for reelection in 2012. He will have served five terms in the senate by then. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill would lower corporate tax rate but collect more corporate taxes (Listen again) A proposal being discussed in a committee of the state senate would lower the top tax rate corporations pay. Sen. Peter Wirth of Santa Fe is offering the idea as a way of generating support for a broader bill that would require all companies doing business in the state to pay taxes. Out-of-state corporations presently have the option to opt out of paying New Mexico taxes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Separation of powers issue arises between NM governor and lawmakers (Listen gain) Some New Mexico lawmakers are beginning to push back over the Gov. Martinez' executive order about immigrants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Numbers of state appointees to be confirmed (Listen again) Virtually every department head in New Mexico state government is new. They've been appointed by Gov. Susana Martinez. Now, they must be confirmed by the state senate. State Sen. Peter Wirth of Santa Fe serves on the Rules Committee and explains the confirmation process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website N.M. energy hearing disrupted over dispute about witness (>b>Listen again) Republican committee members leave hearing after witness testifies that state incentives for the oil and gas industry are probably not paying off and could be costing New Mexico extra revenue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ACLU examines N.M. blood test bill (Listen again) How appropriate is it for a New Mexican to have to submit to a blood test for drugs in order to qualify for unemployment or public assistance benefits? The ACLU looks at the issue.... more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State high court gives Gov. Martinez first legal setback (Listen) New Mexico's Supreme Court has handed Gov. Susana Martinez' administration its first legal set back. The high court ruled today that state officials had no business obeying the governor's order to put certain environmental rules on hold for further study. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To examine tax breaks, subsidies for oil and gas (Listen again) The new head of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee of the state House of Representatives says he wants to hold hearings on state incentives for big industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe school board candidates position themselves (Listen again) Candidates for Santa Fe's school board are on different sides of the issue when it comes to closing small schools and consolidating them into bigger units. Eight candidates are running for three seats on the school board. At this week's candidates forum, just one candidate said she would prefer to see the Acequia Madre School closed. She's the incumbent school board member from District 1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Polluters bill of rights?" Listen again) A Republican state senator has filed legislation seeking to review and possibly discard environmental rules and regulations. KSFR is reporting this first and has first reaction from Sandy Buffett, executive director, New Mexico Conservation Voters. She calls it a "polluter's bill of rights." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Polluters bill of rights?" Listen again) A Republican state senator has filed legislation seeking to review and possibly discard environmental rules and regulations. KSFR is reporting this first and has first reaction from Sandy Buffett, executive director, New Mexico Conservation Voters. She calls it a "polluter's bill of rights." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big industry already gets subsidies like film industry (Listen again) Look for lively debate when state legislators meet on the question of the film incentives program New Mexico offers filmmakers. We listen in on a debate on the issue before a packed audience. More... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NM Supreme Court gets question on Martinez order (Listen again) It took more than two years of testimony and deliberation to arrive at it, and it took Gov. Susana Martinez about two minutes to decide to undo it. The issue is a new environmental rule that was adopted at the end of December. More... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe alert and reward about catalytic converters Santa Fe police have issued an alert to owners of light trucks and SUVs. They say there's been a big jump in thefts of catalytic converters. And Crimestoppers is offering a reward of $1,000 for information that could lead to an arrest. More.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What will New Mexico's final new budget hold for schools? (Listen again) Now that the budget proposals from both the New Mexico legislature and the governor have been published, we're joined for a review of what's ahead for New Mexico public schools by Santa Fe Schools Superintendent Bobbie Guttierez, her chief financial officer Mel Morgan, and by Don Moya, CFO of Albuquerque public schools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Schmitt promoting resources protection and jobs (Listen again) The head of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department expresses doubts about state regulations protecting resources and about climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cutting through DNA sampling jargon (Listen again) The ACLU says it could impinge on civil liberties. A DNA expert says DNA crime-sampling tests reveal no personal information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dress warmly for Saturday's 'outdoor' gubernatorial inauguration (Listen again) Cold temperatures are no stranger to Santa Fe's historic downtown plaza this time of year. Maybe the incoming governor's team didn't know that when they planned Saturday morning's inaugural ceremonies to be held outside. They are from southern New Mexico. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Could 'managed healthcare' be responsible for five deaths? (Listen again) The advent of managed care has been charged with destroying healthcare in general. Could it also be responsible for five murders in Albuquerque? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to get there and back New Years Eve (Listen again) Santa Feans have two novel ways to get from here to there New Years Eve and not worry about having imbibed some holiday cheer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe to get snow, colder temps (Listen) Santa Fe and the region had light snow overnight, but Chuck Jones at the National Weather Service says another 4 to 8 inches are on the way. And temperatures will begin dropping sharply. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The "spirits" of Santa Fe (Listen again) Santa Fe's newest business happens to be, of all things, a distillery. And it will be the first legal one for the city different. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crime lab move first Martinez casualty? (Listen again) Public Safety Secretary John Denko, still battling to move the state crime lab from Albuquerque to Santa Fe, tells KSFR why he believes the state attorney general opposed his proposal and why he wanted to move the crime lab in the first place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sierra Club challenges PNM rate request (Listen again) The local chapter of the Sierra Club says PNM's reaction to an order from the EPA to clean up its San Juan power plant has resulted in several mistakes. If the Sierra Club is right and PNM is wrong, the electric company will be asking state regulators for a much smaller rate increase than has been announced so far - not an extra $90 a year afterall, but something more like $10 a year for the average residential customer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Richardson speaks with KSFR (Audio/Video) In a wide-ranging interview with KSFR News, outgoing New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson talked about his accomplishments in office (a competitive film industry incentive program, a commuter rail line and the nation's first commercial spaceport, among others), his future political life and whether he might pardon Billy the Kid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The clock is ticking for Governor Richardson's term in office; so, too, a pardon for "Billy the Kid." Just days before he leaves office, Governor Richardson may issue a "partial" pardon for famed New Mexico outlaw, "Billy the Kid." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe's water consultant said to have altered earlier water study in California (Listen again) KSFR Exclusive: Consultant named ChemRisk, hired by Santa Fe to assess the safety of Rio Grande water to be filtered through the Buckman Direct Diversion Project, allegedly altered scientific information about a water study in California. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Feans on WikiLeaks cables (Listen again) Two Santa Feans who are retired U.S. foreign service officers have points of view on the leaked WikiLeaks cables and one view on Julian Assange -- he should not be prosecuted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Madoff stuff at Santa Fe auction? (Listen again) A flier Santa Feans are getting by mail promotes an auction of items from Bernie Madoff's collection, items from his ponzi scheme vitims and other merchandise. Is it real? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anatomy of Santa Fe copter crash (Listen again) The National Safety Transportation Safety Board has released documents with evidence about the June 2009 state police helicopter crash in the mountains above Santa Fe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get fit for skiing (Listen again) A pair of skis may not be the only equipment a skier needs to make sure is in good shape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marijuana and drinking in New Mexico teens (Listen again) A UNM neurology professor says both drinking and marijuana use together greatly impair the cognitive ability of teens as they develop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Threats to roll back state environmental rules (Listen again) As New Mexico's so-called Pit Rule heads to court, there's also concern among environmentalists that the incoming Republican Martinez administration may want to turn it, and other rules, over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Espanola public schools being sued for claims of violence and bullying (Video) A lawsuit against Espanola public schools has been joined by New Mexico's ACLU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State auditor says Santa Fe County audit could begin next week (Listen) State Auditor Hector Balderas has announced a special audit of the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department in the wake of the sudden resignation of the sheriff over an admission of wrongdoing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Udall achieve bipartisanship? (Listen again) We ask U.S. Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico why he thinks he can achieve bipartisanship in Washington. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Editor talks about demise of New Mexico online paper (Listen again) The editor of the online New Mexico Independent talks about the web publication's model and what went wrong, causing it to shut down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What ChristUS and Lovelace were saying in August (Listen again) Santa Fe's only major hospital patches up reimbursement disagreement with Lovelace Health Plans, which covers some 14,000 Santa Feans. They've been without access since August 21. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website N.M. casino gambling: A problemo? (Listen again) Casino gambling in New Mexico is a pretty big business. The tribes pay the state a portion of what's called the "net win." That's not the profit. It's the payout to casino players. And New Mexico's share of the net win amounts to more than $60 million a year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman: Obama compromises and the new Congress (Listen again) We talk with U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman about his energy committee and the compromises Pres. Obama suggests he may make on climate change and other legislation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AT&T cell tower plan gets first public airing (Listen again) AT&T plans to bring a proposal to the Santa Fe Board of Adjustments by early December for the installation of a number of tall cell-phone towers in different neighborhoods. Some could be 55 to 75 feet tall, posing as plastic trees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martinez, Denish and polling without cell phones (Listen) Martinez polling lead over Denish concidentally equals polling "bias" uncovered by Pew Research nationwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "It will shake up the industry" (Listen again) One of the Los Alamos lab developers of a super-strong metal named nanotitanium says it will shake up the industry as it moves into the private sector. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former state elections director unsure about outcome of his allegations (Listen again) Former New Mexico elections director speaks out about his allegations of wrongdoing by the Secretary of State, while the state Attorney General responds to the question of his investigation into the allegations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gold (investing) in Santa Fe (Listen again) As the price of gold continues to rise, what are Santa Feans doing about it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remembering D.H. Lawrence's wife Frieda (Listen again) A D.H.Lawrence festival taking root in Santa Fe in October and November features a play named "Empty Bed Blues" at the Santa Fe Playhouse and an exclusive, new BBC film adaptation of "Women in Love" at the Lensic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PRC member says meetings should be "open" (Listen again) New Mexico Public Regulation Commission member Jason Marks thinks it's wrong for other commissioners to be meeting with the state insurance superintendent in private meetings, not open to the public and media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Balloonist's last voicemail (BBC audio) Balloonit Richard Abruzzo left a voicemail with his ground crew not long before he was lost to radar over the Adriatic Sea. The message advised them where he hoped to land safely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio: Part 1 N.M. Secretary of State debate (Podcast) In this audio, New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera faces Republican challenger State Sen. Dianna Duran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio: Part 2 N.M. Secretary of State debate (Podcast) In part 2, New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera faces Republican challenger State Sen. Dianna Duran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reporter gets emails from NM Secretary of State's office (Listen again) Secretary of State Mary Herrera continues to make news, and maybe the news she doesn't like. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating New Mexico's bright skies (Listen again) New Mexico is known for nothing if not its beautiful, bright skies. Our reporter, Susan Thornton, asks, what makes them that way? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating an episode of a "webisode" (Listen again) Known as a choice for Hollywood films, Santa Fe could be emerging as the choice for a new brand of entertainment on the worldwideweb -- "webisodes." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emails by Santa Fe's Denise Lamb sought (Listen) The state Secretary of State is seeking emails to and from a number of county election officials, including one in Santa Fe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How a drink at dinner could land you in the pokey (Listen again) Local and state authorities in New Mexico seek "admissions" from drivers that they have consumed alcohol. Is it a new norm? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ChristUS, Lovelace duke it out on hospital coverage (Listen again) Both sides promise to return to the negotiating table as 14,000 Santa Feans wonder about their Santa Fe hospital coverage under Lovelace plans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blue Cross asks for rate increase to be restored (Listen again) After months of controversy, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico returns to the state insurance division Wednesday to seek a rate increase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe group aids raptors Unknown to many, there's a special place in Santa Fe where a group of people is dedicated to helping birds of prey fly again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charter high school opens at Santa Fe Community College (Listen again) More than a hundred Santa Fe teens are getting a two-for-one -- a high school diploma and the first two years of a college degree at the same time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe's new Chocolate Trail (Listen again) You know all about the Turqoise Trail and the Santa Fe Trail. Now, hold onto your tastebuds for the Santa Fe Chocolate Trail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian artist complains he was relocated (Listen again) A dispute has been brewing private between a noted Indian artists and officials of the Santa Fe Indian Market. Now, it's gone public. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sen. Udall responds as nuke group sues government (Listen again Nuclear watchdog group sues government over plans at the Los Alamos national lab to build a $4 billion nuclear facility. And U.S. Sen. Tom Udall offers his own assessment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lower cost estimate for "barely adequate" Santa Fe school remodel (Listen) It will cost $10 million versus $28 million to remodel Atalaya Elementary School, but the architect it will be "barely adequate" to accommodate students from Acequia Madre school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State asks Santa Fe schools to revisit closing plan (Listen) The head of New Mexico's Public Education Department is asking the Santa Fe School Board to take another look at their decision to consolidate three small elementary schools into one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Mexico Gas backs wireless technology (Listen again) Tens of thousands of tiny radio transmitters are being installed in 350,000 locations in central New Mexico. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Republican reaction to gay marriage ruling (Listen again) Republican state senator reacts to a New Mexico court decisiont that the marriage of two Santa Fe women was valid and legal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bond issue brings out the voters (Listen again) First steps being taken to fulfill the promise of Santa Fe Community College's $35 million bond issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protesting the bombing of Japan (Listen again) A group of people has been camping out in Chimayo, where they're planning a protest to be held at the Los Alamos national lab on Friday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goats work for weed food (List en again) Weed-whacking goats harken back a more pleasant time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why are New Mexico and Arizona different on immigrants? (Listen again) History does repeat itself. The differences between approaches to immigrants in Arizona and New Mexico go back to the mid-1800s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PTSD patients swamp state's medical marijuana program (Listen again) Officials who run New Mexico's medical marijuana program say symptoms needing treatment are added based on scientific information. But no credible research has been done on whether medical marijuana is useful in treating the effects of PTSD, which about 25 percent of enrolled New Mexico patients have. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Consumers Union says Blue Cross hogging cash (Listen again) As Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico awaits a decision on its recent rate increase, Consumers Union reports its parent company has amassed cash reserves of more than $6 billion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gallup company has oil cleanup solution (Listen) New Mexico product might be helpful in cleaning up shorelines contaminated by BP oil leak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As ABQ Film Studios files Chapt. 11. what's the outlook for the industry (Listen again) New Mexico's largest film studio has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Rumors had been circulating for months that Albuquerque Studios had too much debt to service. Now, that appears to be true, by a ratio of 2 to 1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian school amphitheater may be saved, but other facilities lost (Listen again) New Mexico's two U.S. senators may round up federal money to save the famous Paolo Soleri amphitheater at the Santa Fe Indian School, but questions remain why the balance of the historic sites at the campus were destroyed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Questions arise about Santa Fe Schools' use of bond money (Listen again) -- Questions facing Santa Fe public schools and voters who voted for a school bond issue -- How did the estimates for remodeling one school to be used in a consolidation go from $5 to $28 million ... And did the school board promise one thing to get a bond issued approved while using the money for other purposes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pecos head-hunter wonders why he's on Top-Secret list (Listen again) At a small head-hunting placement agency in Pecos, they're wondering why they're on the list of "top-secret" work locations around the nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naked bike rides in Santa Fe face City Hall (Listen again) Santa Fe may have seen its first and last naked bike ride. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe art market considers growth to new markets (Listen again) The executive director of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market speaks to us as she tries to put the clamps on rumors the market is leaving town. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When it comes to local energy loans programs, do the feds misunderstand? (Listen again) County commissioner and state representative question actions by federal banking regulators that have put a hold on local solar-financing programs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cell phones a reason for decline in bees? (Listen again) Some parts of the world, including the U.S., have seen a die-off of bee colonies. What about New Mexico? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigration Law: Audio from Arizona's police training video (Listen) Arizona's new law on immigration status goes into effect at the end of July. Audio excerpts of a police training video are found inside. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SF County manager resigns (Listen again) Roman Abeyta has resigned his position as Santa Fe County Manager. The Board of County Commissioners is considering its options and additional press releases will follow. The commission will have an emergency meeting tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. to discuss this development and appoint an interim county manager. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman to ask qualifications of new drilling regulator (Listen again) U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman defends the selection of a new head of the federal department responsible for managing oil drilling. Michael Bromwich's only environmental experience so far has been as lawyer for the gas company responsible for a giant gas explosion in New Mexico a decade ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In memory of Stuart Udall (Listen again) We listen in as friends and family of Stuart Udall celebrate his life and accomplishments at a memorial at the Paolo Soleri amphitheater on the campus of the Santa Fe Indian School, Santa Fe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KSFR book sale fills rooms (Listen again) More than 10,000 donated books up for sale at modest prices, as a KSFR fund raiser. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian school worried about crowd behavior at concerts (Listen again) We talk with a spokesman for the Santa Fe Indian School about why they decided to hold two concerts in July after saying none would be allowed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PR man hopes to break the 'silence' of the Santa Fe Indian School (Listen again) The new public relations man for the Santa Fe Indian School tells KSFR News what he plans to do. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe mayor outlines annual conference of mayors (Listen again) Santa Fe Mayor David Coss is in Oklahoma City, site of the annual conference of mayors. He joins KSFR's At Noon news program to talk about immigration law, energy efficiency and other issues he and other mayors face. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman: No more oil-leak hearings in energy committee (Listen again) U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, chairman of the senate energy committee, says he probably will hold no more hearings on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. He's held four already. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe schools cut millions and spend extra millions (Listen again) KSFR was first to report this week that a charter high school will in fact stay in its current location on the campus of the Santa Fe Indian School. They had been in discussions to take over one of the elementary schools that the Santa Fe School Board closed. Public school officials had budgeted $120,000 in rental income for that school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One year since Santa Fe 'copter crash (Listen again) A year ago today began a series of events that led to a double tragedy in the mountains above Santa Fe. A state police helicopter that had been dispatched to find a missing hiker went down in a big snowstorm. The pilot of the helicopter was killed along with the female hiker he had just rescued. Another state police officer aboard the copter spent the night in the cold, but survived the ordeal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unanswered questions about Santa Fe Indian School (Listen again) A Santa Fe charter high school decides to stay at the Santa Fe Indian School, instead of leasing an empty public school building, while the Indian school goes through more controversial changes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman: Salazar should not resign (Listen again) We ask U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, whether it's time for the Interior Department Secretary to resign. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kids a'fishing, environmentalists a'planning (Listen again) Happy kids and a determined watershed association turned out for the annual fishing derby on the Santa Fe River. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Election night coverage (Listen again) A primary election cliff hanger that still may not be over .... and excerpts from KSFR's primary elections night coverage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former Gov Gary Johnson takes the spotlight again (Listen again) Former Gov. Gary Johnson talks about his latest venture, and he says it's not running for office. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AG enters New Mexico health insurance rate question (Listen again) New Mexico's attorney general has gotten involved in the question of a rate hike for Blue Cross Blue Shield. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's a 400-year-old city, after all (Listen again) -- If you're on the downtown Santa Fe Plaza after dark, you may think you're seeing and hearing ghosts in some of those storefront windows. KSFR's Ellen Dupuy has the answer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman on drilling permits in the Gulf (Listen again) U.S. Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico on reports that the Interior Department may still be issuing drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico despite promises to the contrary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe budgeting "pain" over (Listen again)+ Santa Fe city council is finished with the pain of creating a budget. Now for the pain of living through it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State high court wants information on greenhouse gases (Podcast) A Santa Fe-based environmental group has gotten the go-ahead from the New Mexico Supreme Court to pursue its argument -- at least for now. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website N.M. Fraud Alert: Mortgage rescue plans (Podcast) New Mexico's attorney general reports a spike in mortgage rescue plans. These are companies that say they can help people wyhose homes are under the threat of foreclosure. But often they are frauds. New Mexico has a new law making some of these practices criminal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New thinking about why monkeys, and maybe people, act aggressively (Podcast) Aggressiveness in monkeys was once thought to be the result of a fight for resources. But new research at the Santa Fe Institute is raising a new theory, one that may answer why human beings are disposed to fighting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Federal officials at the Albuquerque jail (Podcast) An immigrant rights advocate talks about the new federal immigration station at the Bernalillo County detention center in Albuquerque. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Questions about Santa Fe's school's budget answered, others raised (Podcast) Close several small schools and increase class sizes are the two biggest parts of efforts by the Santa Fe School Board to trim some $7 million from next year's budget. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State senator wants regulators to act differently on health insurance rates (Podcast) A state senator proposes to make changes in the law that would require more be done by the state Insurance Divsion and the Public Regulation Commission when health insurance companies ask for rate increases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oil leak beneath New Mexico air base estimated at 8 million gallons (Podcast) -- In size, it nears the proportions of the Exxon Valdez spill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Questions raised about benefits of closing small schools (Podcast) -- The question for the Santa Fe school board is, will closing/consolidating small schools actually save a projected amount of money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Loan default at Abq Studios raises questions (Podcast) If one of the loans made to Albuquerque Studios is to be auctioned off, what does that mean for the studios and for filmmaking in New Mexico? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tasers from Santa Fe donated to San Miguel County (Podcast) The sheriff of San Miguel County plans to equip his deputies with Taser stun guns that are gifts from the sheriff's department in Santa Fe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Mexico may market itself to Sonora, Mexico (Podcast) New Mexico tourism officials looking at extending a welcome to people from Mexico, in the wake of Arizona's new immigration law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PRC commissioner Marks surprised by Blue Cross deal (Podcast) He had looked for more explanation. Marks on tape Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will Santa Fe lease, sell, or mothball 4 school buildings? (Podcast) Now, what to do with those four school buildings in Santa Fe that will be closed when the students are transferred elsewhere? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One of the worst in the country? (Podcast) The Washington watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has come out with a list of 11 governors that they say are the worst in the nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advocate: Closing small schools not financially sound (Podcast) A Santa Fe-based think tank says closing and consolidating small schools in Santa Fe would not achieve desired savings and could even result in the district losing money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PCB report not conclusive about whether LANL contaminants in Rio Grande (Podcast) A state environment department finding of "no PCB contamination" in the Rio Grande from the Los Alamos National Laboratory may sound like good news for Santa Fe's future water supply. But Ralph Ford-Schmid of the New Mexico Environment Department says the study is still preliminary. They haven't been able yet to test a storm flow from the lab. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Albuquerque lawyer wins in court but detainee remains in Guantanamo (Podcast) A lawyer from Albuquerque has been part of a group of volunteer attorneys giving their time and experience to providing legal counsel to some of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. But even though a judge has ordered the military to release one of her clients, he remains in detention eight years later. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grand jury investigating Thornburg Mortage execs (Podcast) The Santa Fe-based company was at one time the largest publicly traded company in New Mexico. They made high-end home loans to people who could afford to pay them back. But Thornburg ran into problems when the economy began to sink. And now there are potential problems for some of Thornburg's former top executives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Udall questions Afghan policy (Podcast) Udall unsure of U.S. policy in Afghanistan. Captioned Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website County commission to discuss moratorium on development Commissioner Holian describes the idea. (Deaf captioning) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Udall returning from Senate trip to Afghanistan(Podcast) -- April 9, 1 p.m. -- U.S. Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico says he'll be returning to the United States this weekend after a congressional fact-finding trip to Afghanistan. Even after his visit, Udall says he's still unsure about U.S. involvement in that country. He says he that he and other members of the delegation met with Afghan Pres. Hamed Karzai. They told Karzai he should clean up the corruption in his country if the Taleban is to be defeated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman applauds offshore drilling plan (Podcast) We ask him why he supports the plan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glendal, Calif., faced questions like Santa Fe faces (Podcast) -- What did Glendale, Calif., learn after 12-month moratorium? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Santa Fe headed toward cell-tower moratorium? (Podcast) -- Santa Fe City Councilor to hold public meetings on how/why/if/and when to create a telecommunications for the city. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crazy Heart music comes live to Santa Fe (Podcast) Actor Jeff Bridges to perform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wrong-way DWI crashes in New Mexico (Podcast) New Mexico's OMI analyzes DWI fatalities. Deaf captioning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State health department survey takers sought (Podcast) New Mexico's health department is looking for New Mexicans to fill out an online survey with their health concerns Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A.G. King: Dem against Dem (Podcast) Attorney General Gary King on the incidence and prosecution of high-level political cases in New Mexico. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Coffee Party" comes to Santa Fe (Podcast) Coffee Party starts up in Santa Fe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bank questions "shame on you" banners (Podcast) Bank questions union protest banners Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rove to BBC: 'proud' of torture (Podcast) -- March 12 -- Karl Rove,the former advisor to President George W. Bush, tells the BBC that the use of harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding made the world safer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News editor talks about letter critical of Secretary of State (Podcast) The news editor of Espanola's Rio Grande Sun talks with KSFR about the letter he obtained. It's the letter of resignation by the state director of elections who is critical of Secretary of State Mary Herrera. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Food Summit: Sustainable food supply in New Mexico (Podcast) -- A statewide meeting has been underway in Santa Fe on the subject of food. The central question they're asking is, can New Mexico create a localized, sustainable, socially-just food system? What would that look like? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No telecomm ordinance in Santa Fe means no telecomm applications? -- Santa Fe city council has again set aside discussion of a telecommunications ordinance. If Santa Fe has no ordinance, then it's impossible for telecommunications companies to apply for licenses to do business in the city. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website High school classroom on Santa Fe college campus (Podcast) High school students with their school on a college campus? That's the plan being worked out between the new Masters School charter school and Santa Fe Community College. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Debate over Santa Fe telecommunications ordinance (Podcast) Captioned for the deaf. More inside. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bingaman: First healthcare vote could be March 18 (Podcast) Captioned for the deaf. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PRC members question authority of insurance staff on health insurance rates (Podcast) Blue Cross raising health insurance premium rates an average of 25 percent to get a full Public Regulation Commission hearing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NM lawmakers: Local senator reacts to taxes and spending cuts (Podcast) -- After not being able to complete the job in 30 days, New Mexico lawmakers may be nearing completion of a budget package in just three days. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe first in state with renewable energy financing (Podcast) Santa Fe County officials say they're well along with plans to create a way for county and city residents to get low-cost loans to install renewable energy systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anaya: Effect of stimulus funds yet to be felt in New Mexico (Podcast) Former Gov. Tony Anaya is running the state office charged with keeping up with the flow of money and seeing that it's spent correctly. Gov. Anaya tells KSFR the impact of the spending has yet to be felt in New Mexico. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bills and budget to get done in special session (Podcast) A banking bill considered by New Mexico lawmakers would have put the state's checking account into local banks. It died in the state senate. Will it come back? And how quickly will state lawmakers act in special session to create a balanced budget? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Commentary: State lawmakers couldn't get other things done, either (Podcast) -- At Noon today, the New Mexico legislature adjourned after 30 days of work and without arriving at a budget for the coming fiscal year, their principal job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website At LANL: Understanding how some earthquakes are triggered (Podcast) A research team at the Los Alamos national lab has gotten a little closer to understanding how some earthquakes are triggered. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opponents: Legislative proposal could have the effect of disabling disabled New Mexicans (Podcast) Opponents of a bill in the state House of Representatives say if it becomes law it could cut several hundred disabled New Mexicans from the opportunity to bid on state contracts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gov't Watchdog: Let the 'sunshine' in Podcast) The state senate has passed a bill to create a website where all state financial documents can be viewed. But the N.M. Foundation for Open Government wonders about its chances in the House of Representatives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Mexico team heads to Haiti (Podcast) A disaster assistance team from New Mexico is on its way to Haiti, to help with relief efforts there. KSFR's John Calef talks with the team's medical officer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Outburst at City Council meeting over telecommunications (Podcast) -- Emotions ran high when the Santa Fe City Council grappled with the new federal rule restricting how local governments can act on applications for franchises from wi-fi, cable and other telecommunications companies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State film incentives program under microscope (Podcast) Critics of New Mexico's film incentives program may have found some new ammunition to see if it's possible to cut back on some of the money spent by the state to lure film makers to come to New Mexico and spend their money here instead of in other states. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People don't plan to die (Podcast) Is it because of fear or incredulity that people don't like to talk about, or much less, plan for their own deaths? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mayoral candidates, Rail Runner, Santa Fe Airport (Podcast) -- On KSFR's At Noon midday report for Thursday: As the municipal elections approach in early March, we'll begin a series on what's been said at some of the candidates forums... Changes coming to the Rail Runner commuter train in the coming days. We'll find out how the financially strapped organization is holding together.... And when it snows like it did this week, how do they manage at the Santa Fe airport? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe County plan, nuclear weapons, teen birth rates, domestic partnerships (Podcast) -- On Wednesday's At Noon midday report: Santa Fe County's county manager with a preview of the new land development ordinance ... Sen. Jeff Bingaman on the increased nuclear weapons budgets ... Teen birth rates decline in New Mexico ... Excerpts from a state senate hearing on domestic partnerships. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Report: State, Santa Fe, still losing jobs -- Jan. 28, 10 a.m. -- The latest jobs report for New Mexico shows sharp increases in unemployment for Santa Fe and the state as a whole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Would New Mexico banks drown under $1.4 billion in state cash? (Podcast) State Rep. Brian Egolf of Santa Fe has introduced a bill that would take the $1.4 billion in general New Mexico accounts out of Wells Fargo Bank and divide the deposits among local, New Mexico banks. We ask him how that would work and whether local banks would drown under the infusion of deposits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fastest computer has entry point in Santa Fe (Podcast) State officials call it the fastest computer in the world with public access. And it's now officially online at Santa Fe Community College, even though it's not quite ready for full public access just yet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will Supreme Court ruling affect New Mexico? (Podcast) Legal experts are still digesting the full meaning of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow unlimited spending on political campaigns by corporations and by labor unions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charter Bank customers find their bank seized by feds -- Jan. 25, 7 a.m. -- Customers of Santa Fe-based Charter Bank shouldn't see any changes this morning, even though federal officials seized it over the weekend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back story on domestic partner legislation (Podcast) On KSFR's At Noon midday report: We'll ask for the back story on how the ACLU and the Catholic Conference of Bishops got together on domestic partner legislation, then how the cooperation disintegrated... Using cell phones and driving at the DWI threshold could carry the same risk. We'll find out what a researcher who's studied the issue has found out.... And can the Rail Runner train escape having its weekend service cut out all together? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's changed in Santa Fe County's land plan? (Podcast) Santa Fe County residents wondering about the new sustainable land development plan will have to wait another week to see a copy. But KSFR gets a sneak preview from one of the authors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top story today: Weather (Podcast) -- Jan. 22, 7 a.m. -- Winter storm warning in effect until 6 a.m. Saturday. The Santa Fe area could get 2 to 4 inches today, and the same amount again overnight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Udall deplores U.S. Supreme Court contributions decision (Podcast) -- Jan. 21, 11 a.m. -- U.S. Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico is criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn a federal law that until now has limited the amount of money big corporations and unions can give to political campaigns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Supreme Court ruling, Moving New Mexico's cash, Helping entrepeneurs (Podcast) -- On Thursday's At Noon midday report: U.S. Sen. Tom Udall reacts to high court ruling, allowing corporations and unions unlimited political spending ... The head of New Mexico's community bankers group tells KSFR moving state deposits away from Bank of America to local banks is a good idea ... Santa Fe group helping people run or start new businesses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Domenici, Haiti, Unemployment, Storms (Podcast) On KSFR's At Noon midday report: We assess Pete Domenici, Jr.'s, foray into the political world ... A Santa Fe faith-based group gathers aid for Haiti ... In advance of the session of New Mexico lawmakers, an economist explores the state's unemployment rate ... Not one, but three storms headed this way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prospects for Pete Domenici, Jr. (Podcast) A political observer and blogger from Albueque surveys the political landscape as Pete Domenici, Jr., announces his intention to run for governor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 15 At Noon midday report (Podcast) On KSFR's At Noon midday report: Yet more details on the county courthouse site cleanup ... Wi-Fi service on the New Mexico Rail Runner is six months behind schedule ... A spring-like weekend ahead, followed by a system of storms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Contamination removal to take years, cost millions -- Jan. 15, 7 a.m. -- State and county officials unveiled the way forward at the site of the stalled courthouse project in downtown Santa Fe. Part of the plan could still involve discharges into the Santa Fe River. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Food tax may be dead even before it arrives (Podcast) On KSFR's At Noon midday report: New Mexico's food tax may be dead even before state lawmakers come to Santa Fe. *** The state Court of Appeals is coming to a school near you -- Santa Fe High School. *** More high school graduates could benefit New Mexico's economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "It's hot enough to cook a steak" (Podcast) Our reporter takes in the tough work at a Santa Fe county firefighters training exercise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is New Mexico's jobless rate actually 8% ?(Podcast) -- On KSFR's At Noon midday report: We take a look at the state's unemployment rate. Is it 8 percent or is it more like the national level of 10 percent or higher? *** Santa Fe city hall is making another move to use solar power. This time for the Buckman Direct Diversion project. *** Some at city hall want to buck new federal rules that limit the amount of time local governments can take to approve locations for new cell-phone towers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PRC to decide on single-customer power sales (Podcast) -- On Tuesday's At Noon midday report: The Public Regulation Commission will decide the question whether a private company can deliver solar-power-electricity to a single customer without being labeled a public utility. *** Santa Fe's animal shelter adopts some new fun-raising techniques. *** People moving to Santa Fe to work, but bringing their own jobs with them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dec. 18 At Noon midday report (Podcast) As the revenue options task force wraps up, we'll hear from an opponent to taxes on food, a possible revenue source still on the table for New Mexico. *** Changes coming after the first of the year to how you can dispose of trash in Santa Fe, including that Christmas Tree. *** A Santa Fe company that sells things that are actually good for kids has just started offering its shares to the public. We'll find out about the SmartKidsGroup. *** And counting birds in Santa Fe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Final meeting of state revenue task force (Podcast) The fifth and final meeting of the governor's task force on the budget takes place today at Santa Fe Community College. We find out from Tax Secretary Rick Homans what's happening. *** An entrepeneurial startup plans to demonstrate its stand-alone energy power source from hydrogen by creating a self-sustaining mobile kitchen to feed movie crews in the field. *** A new book is chock-a-block full of ideas for movie makers in New Meixco so they can make their total operations even greener. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State land office deal questioned (Podcast) On Tuesday's At Noon midday report: A state lawmaker from Santa Fe asks hard questions about a proposed swap of land by the state land office....Why do women leave academic medicine? We'll ask that question of the associate dean of medicine at UNM who says she wants to get down to a firm answer... At Santa Fe's Habitat for Humanity, they're closing in on their goal of 13 new houses and expect all of them to be occupied by next summer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Mexico not as bad off financially as other states (Podcast) From KSFR's At Noon midday report: New Mexico's financial straits compared with others. *** Gathering the first long-term data on environmental pollution in the state. *** Plans underway for holiday decorations on Santa Fe's Plaza. *** "Building" a movie at Santa Fe Community College. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valerie Plame on legal challenges to the White House and a movie about herself (Podcast) -- From KSFR's At Noon midday report: After her CIA identity was leaked, probably by someone in the White House, Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson moved to Santa Fe. We ask her how her legal challenges to the White House are going and also about the new movie about her to be released soon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nov. 6 At Noon midday report (Podcast) New Mexico's big electric utility company caused a national stir when it pulled out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over differences about clean energy and climate change. We'll talk with PNM about their newest effort to get behind clean energy. *** Spending cuts mandated by the legislature are giving state agencies, like corrections, headaches. *** We'll hear from President Obama on the economy, the unemployment rate and those horrific killings at Fort Hood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nov. 3 At Noon Midday report (Podcast) Santa Fe schools face a million-dollar-plus budget problem this year and it will most likely be even more next year. We'll find out from the superintendent of schools how they plan to cope. Two weeks from today, voters in Santa Fe County go to the polls to decide whether to renew a quarter-percent excise tax. If you're like the average Californian, 10 percent of your electricity bill is for high profile electronics, like those new TV sets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe County Manager: "I was blind sided" (Podcast) Santa Fe County Manager Roman Abeyta is complaining about a lawsuit the city plans to file. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are creepy, Halloween-type things happening in Santa Fe? (Podcast) Our reporter takes a look at some of the stories about "haunted" Santa Fe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe Watershed still supplying water the old fashioned way (Podcast) Our reporter visits a place that's out of bounds to most people -- Santa Fe's drinking supply fountain, the Watershed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ban political contributions in New Mexico? (Podcast) On KSFR's At Noon midday report for Tues., Oct. 27, we learn about a small but telling number of states have puts laws on their books outlawing political contributions from companies and special interest groups. We'll find out from Think New Mexico's Fred Nathan who they are and about his similar proposal that New Mexico lawmakers will be looking at this coming January. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revisiting the Aamodt water rights settlement (Podcast) Now that the survey of attitudes of Santa Feans is out, we go back to January, the date of the last public meeting on the controversial Aamodt water settlement. It's perhaps one of the longest running lawsuits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 8 At Noon midday report (Podcast) On Thursday's At Noon midday report: New developments in the case of Santa Fe-based Thornburg Mortgage. *** A watchdog group set up to keep a spotlight on state and local governments in New Mexico has hung out its shingle once again after a brief hiatus. *** A new program in Santa Fe could be a model for others around the world. It's designed to bring Jews and Muslims together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KSFR informal survey: Resistance to swine flu vaccine (Podcast) -- On Monday's At Noon midday report: KSFR informal survey shows some resistance to swine flu vaccine. *** Funding in danger for New Mexico state insurance pool healthcare coverage. *** VIPs scheduled for Santa Fe 400th anniversary events this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Closer look at Santa Fe County development plan (Podcast) On the Oct. 2 At Noon midday report: A closer look at the new development ordinance that will govern how all types of things will be allowed to be built in Santa Fe County. *** Very possibly on the chopping block for cuts in state spending is a little known state program that promotes the business of art in Santa Fe and throughout the state by using artwork in new state buildings. *** If you thought the graduation rate in New Mexico high schools was bad, the rate at UNM is even worse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe County development plan nears finish (Podcast) On Thursday's At Noon midday report: Next steps coming up in Santa Fe County's plan to develop a comprehensive master plan to regulate oil, gas and other types of development. *** We talk with a reporter from the Santa Fe Reporter about a class action lawsuit in California against an auctioneer holding a real estate auction in Santa Fe. Changes could be coming in the way student loans are handled in New Mexico and elsewhere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State lawmaker: Spending cuts, tax hikes -- both? (Podcast) On Wednesday's At Noon midday report: What will it be to solve New Mexico's budget problems - spending cuts or tax increases, or both? We'll speak with a state senator from Santa Fe. *** Could a program to put the homeless in homes also help save money and lives in Santa Fe. Our reporter says it works in other places. ***It's off to jail for three drunk drivers. They were sentenced in front of students at Santa Fe High School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State Rep: Education can't escape budget cuts (Podcast) The head of the state legislative finance committee says it would be difficult for public education to avoid budget cuts. *** Home heating costs are in the news. Will it cost more or less this year to heat with propane. We'll have a report. *** And a medical software company in Albuquerque will explain how they're hooking up hospitals throughout the state. All on the At Noon midday report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe hospital could lose funds if Value measures are used (Podcast) New Mexico hospitals could lose a large share of federal healthcare reimbursements if they don't improve their Value proposition. The head of a study group says Santa Fe's Christus St Vincent is particularly vulnerable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe County spends $1.8 million, so far, on oil rig prevention( Podcast) Documents obtained by KSFR News show that consultants to Santa Fe County on oil and gas ordinance questions have already sent invoices totaling more than $1.8 and could have additional expenses before this fiscal year is over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept 17 Update: Bankrupt Thornburg Mortgage had planned to start a "bank" (Podcast) Update Sept 17: We listen in as Thornburg CEO Goldstone tells KSFR in March of plans to establish Thornburg as a "bank" in addition to being a mortgage lender. From Sept 16: The president and chief financial officer of bankrupt Thornburg Morgage, Santa Fe, have left their positions after the possibility of financial irregularities surfaced in bankruptcy court in Baltimore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 15 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Santa Fe's hospital fares poorly in a new "value" measurement that could be applied to hospitals around the nation, to determine their reimbursement levels. *** The New Mexico tax secretary tells us he's got more than a hundred million worth of unclaimed money and other stuff that people could claim, and he'll tell us how to go about claiming it. *** The Los Alamos Fire Department gets low marks when it comes to how well they could fight a fire at the national lab. We'll have a report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking into the Las Campanas problem: Sept. 10 At Noon ()Podcast) From Thursday's midday report: The high-end luxury community of Las Campanas on Santa Fe's northwest side has been in financial trouble for some time. The principal developer lost control months ago and now the major lender has taken over the property. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 29 At Noon midday report (<b>Podcast</b>) We'll talk with New Mexico's tax secretary about a report slamming New Mexico for having the highest-in-the-nation rate of uninsured motorists. *** You may still be thinking about snow. But Santa Fe firefighters say it's not too early to think about the wildfire season. *** We'll take a look at some of the newspapers around the country to see what they're talking about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As Santa Fe city council votes on $30 million bond issue (Podcast) The fastest, biggest deal in Santa Fe's 400-year-history? That's what Mayor David Coss calls it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 14 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Could Santa Fe's controversial short-term rental law be in for some changes? *** New Mexico law requires that the courts have trained interpreters so that people who don't speak English can be involved fully in the legal process. We'll have a report on a new effort to train interpreters not only in Spanish but in other languages as well. *** The governor is on his way to California to try to stir up more business for the New Mexico film industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whole Foods chain touts non-GMO products (Podcast) The Whole Foods grocery chain is touting development of labeling that will tell consumers which house-brand products are not genetically modified. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 8 At Noon midday report (Podcast) We'll dig into the latest report on home sales in Santa Fe and in Santa Fe County. *** An Albuquerque teen may be the first in the nation to sue the meat processing company that recalled hundreds of thousands of pounds of beef tainted with E.coli. *** On Santa Fe's Museum Hill,they prepare for this weekend's International Folk Art Market. *** What happens next, now that the EPA has taken the clamps off of car-emissions standards by California, New Mexico and other states? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 7 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Two high-profile Santa Fe programs on hold. We'll look into an unused commuter train stop at a prime location, and when will the city's red-light traffic camera program begin? *** New Mexico plans for swine flu immunizations. *** Is June still the month for local weddings? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 6 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Why does New Mexico have the highest rate of human lightning strikes? *** U.S. senators Jeff Bingaman on healthcare reform and other legislative issues as they get back to work. *** Bubonic plague incidences are up in Santa Fe County. *** We'll listen as people taking part in Pancakes on the Plaza tell us their favorite July 4th traditions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 3 At Noon midday reportt (Podcast) If there hadn't been a glitch in the cell phone equipment, would that lost hiker in the Santa Fe mountains been found earlier? We'll talk with the county sheriff to find out what went wrong. *** What goes into a pancake? Better yet, what goes into 12,000 of them? A report on preparations at the Santa Fe Plaza for tomorrow morning. *** Here's an idea that could be hard to pass up if you're celebrating and imbibing - it's a steeply discounted cab ride home underwritten by Santa Fe County. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 2 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Two hot topics for New Mexicans. We'll hear from the state attorney general on human trafficking, and Congressman Ben Ray Lujan will join us about what he's hearing on healthcare reform. *** A new farm in Artesia, New Mexico, is producing crops for biofuels, not food for people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 1 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Got milk? We'll ask the question, could New Mexico's $2 billion dairy industry be in economic peril. Already, one dairy producer has gone bust. *** County officials have gotten a report on how well they respond to their constituents and to the media. That, from the Santa Fe League of Women Voters. *** And as the opera season prepares to get underway, we'll ask, how well do altos and high altitude mix? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 30 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Is it now too late to save the College of Santa Fe as it currently exists, now that action on a city bond to pay off its debt has been postponed? We'll get the opinion of a state senator from Santa Fe, and we'll hear about a new concept supported by the president of Santa Fe Community College. *** New Mexico ranks at the bottom of the list on one measure of healthcare, but it gets fair scores on a number of others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wanted for child support (Podcast) The state's human services department comes out every three months with a new list of the top 25 most wanted people who have skipped out on paying child support. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Appraiser: "I've been adversely affected..." (Podcast) A licensed real estate appraiser with his perspective on the Home Valuation Code of Conduct, a new rule that requires a third party to assign an appraiser to value a property up for a mortgage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Proposal to develop "last open space" in Santa Fe (Podcast) Santa Fe's Planning Commission next week will hear a proposal to develop what some call the last open space in Santa Fe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website $2.6 million a year to retire College of Santa Fe debt (Podcast) Santa Fe city hall would have to be assured of $2.6 million a year in lease-payment-revenues to service the debt to acquire the College of Santa Fe campus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe's 60th annual rodeo underway (Podcast) Santa Fe's annual Rodeo de Santa Fe is now officially underway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tecton closes well and chapter in Santa Fe history (Podcast) A Houston-based oil development company capped off its last well and pulled out of Santa Fe County this week. The event marks the closing of a chapter in county history that led to a new ordinance on all types of development in the county, including oil and gas drilling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 21 At Noon midday report (Podcast) We'll talk budgets with the finance director at Santa Fe City Hall and with a member of the Santa Fe school board. Both are grappling with how to cut their spending next year. On the chopping block are millions of dollars. *** The mayor of Espanola says city employees will no longer be allowed to talk with news reporters directly without permission. How does that sit with the city's only major news outlet? *** A report on cutting the income going to New Mexicans on disability relief. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 10 News Brief 7 a.m. -- Green energy bills by Santa Fe lawmakers become law ... Santa Fe County Clerk mulls run for Secretary of State ... (Get news updates on air, here and on Twitter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 10 At Noon midday report (Podcast) We might call this the Green hour. *** We'll be learning about a new all-green home built by Santa Fe Habitat for humanity. *** We'll visit the biomass boiler room at Santa Fe Community College. That's where two important pieces of state legislation have been signed into law. *** We'll hear what those two new laws are about. *** And we'll hear from a green economics research organization about how and why New Mexico should decrease its financial dependence on oil and gas royalties. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 9 At Noon midday report (Podcast) We'll hear from the chairman of the Public Regulation Commission about any bad ruboff that may come from the indictment of commission member Jerome Block, Jr., on felony charges. *** Santa Fe County Clerk Valerie Espinoza is floating a trial balloon - she wants to know if the support is there should she decide to run for Secy of State. *** The governor will be signing two green pieces of legislation today - bills written by two lawmakers from Santa Fe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Update: Indictments for Jerome Block Sr and Jr. 1:30 p.m. -- Update: Reporters for the New Mexican and Santa Fe Reporter say both Jerome Block Senior and Jerome Block Junior face felony charges. AP reports that the charges relate to violation of election laws and tampering with evidence. (Get Twitter updates.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe home sales down again, prices up (Podcast) Home sales in Santa Fe continue to decline, but media prices are up slightly. (Get Twitter news updates.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 7 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Bill Dupuy preview plus the top story, New Mexico's environmental regulations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feb. 20 At Noon midday report (<b>Podcast</b>) Among our reports today, bad financial projections facing Santa Fe County and a bill in the legislature that would put New Mexico at the top of the national list when it comes to the tax people pay for hotel rooms. *** With state lawmakers at the halfway point in this session, we'll ask State Sen Peter Wirth of Santa Fe for an analysis of how things are going so far. *** Everything in Santa Fe is old, and the Playhouse is no spring chicken. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feb. 13 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Businesses to city hall: Day laborers on a downtown park, too many police on the historic Santa Fe plaza. *** Digital TV or not next week? KNME, Albuquerque, explains. *** The National Weather Service is recruiting weather watchers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feb. 12 At Noon midday report (Podcast) With the Museum of New Mexico licensing rights out-of-state to replicate collected items, are local artisans losing out? *** We'll hear from some of the people who took part in the mayor's give-and-take on the state of Santa Fe's economy. Are they more or less optimistic now than before they went into the meeting. *** The state is due to get nearly $200 million in federal funds to extend health insurance to 30,000 more New Mexico children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feb. 11 At Noon midday report (Podcast) A big turnout for the give-and-take with Santa Fe city hall over the state of the city's economy. *** Santa Fe County officials are in the middle of a series of meetings on growth management in the county. *** Unless you're of a certain age, you probably haven't visited Santa Fe's Warehouse 21 Teen Center. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LANL looks at more-efficient solar cells (Podcast) As more and more hopes are pinned on new energy technologies, a group at the Los Alamos national lab says they've found a way to increase the efficiency of already-efficient solar cells. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Group: Federal poverty level is truly povery (Podcast) A state-wide advocy group says it has new numbers that show the official "Federal Poverty Level" statistics are too low. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 28 At Noon midday report (<b>Podcast</b>) Bill Dupuy previews today's program: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 16 At Noon midday report (Podcast) A huge project affecting a limited number of people north of Santa Fe will cost hundreds of millions of dollars by the time it's finished. And not everyone is pleased with the Aamodt water settlement. *** A new report is out on whether the state's tax incentives program for the film industry is a winner or a loser. *** And what are all those shoes beginning to be seen flying from portal roofs and automobiles bumpers in these days before the inauguration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 15 At Noon midday report (Podcast) To help balance the budget, the governor has a plan to step up tax collections. Not more taxes, just collections. *** Republicans are coming out with their own plans for the budget. We'll talk with the minority house floor leader. *** What's in a name? A lot, says a Massachusetts company who wants the state to stop using the Rail Runner name it says it owns. *** And a look at a scientific meeting going on in Albuquerque into the human mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 13 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Gov. Richardson has begun laying out his plans to solve the state's budget shortfall. He says no new taxes. *** What happens if Medicaid funding gets cut? One group says the state will lose a lot of federal matching funds. *** New Mexico's medical marijuana law now allows for nonprofit groups to register to grow and sell the stuff. We'll ask why no one has signed up yet. *** A wacky traffic sign in Santa Fe (see the video) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 12 At Noon midday report (Podcast) At this point it seems fairly certain the ChristUS St Vincent Hospital won't be getting any more money this year than it got last year from Santa fe County. We'll talk with the hospital about what'll they do to make up the difference. *** Is the state attorney general investigating any possible wrongdoing by the Eldorado community water district? *** Pres. Bush holds his last news conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 9 At Noon midday report (Podcast) New Mexico's lodging industry is being hit by the economic downtown. Why doesn't the state promote tourism more? *** A new report shows that New Mexico women are stalked more than anywhere else. *** A dispute in Albuquerque over school lunches. Cheese sandwich anyone? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dec. 15 At Noon midday report (Podcast) The big story is weather, with school closures topping the headlines. ***The Rail Runner commuter train has pulled into the Santa Fe Railyard with nearly 2,000 dignitaries and guests on its inaugural run. A live report. ***We'll find out from a newly elected state legislator how new comers get prepared for the upcoming session. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 28 At Noon midday report (Podcast) In the days leading up to the final voting in the general election, we'll find out how early voting is going in New Mexico. *** We'll ask the county clerk of Bernalillo County how much trouble she's actually had in registering applications from third-party voter-registrat ion groups. *** And we'll hear from a Santa Fe alliance of religious leaders who are denouncing the name calling under the guise of religious principles during this election season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 27 At Noon midday report (Podcast) The Santa Fe County Clerk tells us heaving early voting continues. *** Our reporter assesses the John McCain rally in Albuquerque from a behind-the-scenes point of view. *** Another reporter talks with an Iraq war vet who as an officer got the pulse of his troops from a most unlikely place -- the latrine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 24 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Our series on coping in tough times continues with a report on an investment adviser. *** We'll hear what the state Retiree Health Care Authority is doing in the face of shrinking investments and rising healthcare costs. *** The jobs picture in New Mexico is better than the national average, even though it's down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 23 At Noon midday report (Podcast) New Mexico voters are turning out in big numbers for early voting, so we tried it, too. *** A Santa Fe psychologist describes how people are trying to cope with the economy, war, the elections. *** Enrollment is up at Santa Fe Community College as people look for other alternatives in the jobs market. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 22: N.M. ACLU asks A.G. to investigate voter registration forms used by GOP (Podcast) The latest development on voting in New Mexico is the case of unverified voter registration forms that the Bernalillo County Clerk has turned over to the district attorney and to the FBI. Should she also have turned them over to the state GOP? The ACLU says no. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 21 At Noon midday report Public Regulation Commission candidates meet on the same stage for the first time. *** Our reporter looks into early voting at the Santa Fe County Rodeo Grounds. *** A congressional hearing underway into the nation's financial problems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 20 At Noon midday report (Podcast) We talk with a registered voter from Albuquerque whose name is on the list of those accused of illegally voting. *** Santa Fe's county clerk says she's overwhelmed by the early-voting turnout. *** The state Health Department tests giving all students a flu vaccine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 17 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Santa Feans are beginning to react to a draft oil and gas drilling ordinance. *** Will both candidates for the Public Regulation Commission show up for a public forum Tuesday? We speak with one who will. *** We catch up with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano who's visiting New Mexico. ***A new scorecard by the League of Conservation Voters rates New Mexico's members of Congress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 16 At Noon midday report (Podcast) The political writer of the New Mexican comes up with a new theory about Jerome Block, Jr. *** Listening to the Udall-Pearce U.S. Senate debate. *** Santa Feans sound off after the final presidential debate. *** Oil and gas drilling in Santa Fe gets a big spot in a new draft county ordinance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 15 At Noon midday report (Podcast) The Bernalillo County Clerk talks about straight-ticket voting with exceptions for other candidates, and about those suspicious-looking voter registration forms. *** Sen. Jeff Bingaman on nuclear energy. *** An environmental reports shows temperatures up in New Mexico. *** The state leans on Shell Oil for selling cigarettes to minors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 14 At Noon midday report (Podcast) We'll talk with Sen. Jeff Bingaman about whether the federal government should take an equity position in commercial banks, and about his predictions for the general election. *** The federal bailout bill has a surprise cash bonus for people who commute to work via bicycles rather than cars. *** And we'll hear from the nonprofit organization that filed the only formal complaint against Jerome Block, Jr. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 13 At Noon midday report (Podcast) The ongoing saga of Jerome Block is still going on. We talk with the Las Vegas, NM, Optic about the latest development. *** Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros joins us to look at the housing market in Santa Fe and elsewhere. *** A winter storm watch is in the forecast and our reporter looks into how to keep warm -- safely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 10 At Noon midday report (Podcast) County clerks say most of the voting in the general election will be done early, well before November 4th. Does that have a connection with a rising chorus of claims about voter fraud in New Mexico now being raised by one of the presidential campaigns? *** Just how much does New Mexico get in return for extending tax break incentives to film production companies. We'll get two different estimates. *** Mayor David Coss is off to China. Turns out Santa Fe has a sister city there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Voter registration fraud? (Podcast) KSFR has gotten no answer from the Bernalillo County Clerk why she considered voter registration forms to be suspicious enough to be turned over to federal authorities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Fe housing numbers holding the line (Podcast) The housing market in Santa Fe appears to be holding its own. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Counting Santa Fe drivers on cell phones (Podcast) It's against the law in Santa Fe to hold a cell phone, talk and drive. But our reporters staked out at a busy intersection find many are still doing just that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Error found in Santa Fe County voting machines A Santa Fe County technican has found a computer-programming error that could have prevented counting the votes of straight-party ticket voters in the coming general elections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 3 At Noon midday report (Podcast) As the financial bailout plan gets final approval in Washington, the roll-call shows that Congressmen Tom Udall and Steve Pearce of New Mexico remained firmly against it. *** What do Santa Feans think about the Biden-Palin debate? We'll hear from the lieutenant governor and also some of the people who attended KSFR's debate-watching event. *** How do you make sense of the value of the common shares of Santa Fe-based Thornburg Mortgage? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Common Cause seeks investigation of Jerome Block, Jr.(Podcast) Common Cause New Mexico has asked the New Mexico Secretary of State to conduct a formal investigation of Democrat Jerome Block, Jr. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oct. 1 At Noon midday report (Podcast) We'll take a first look at Santa Fe county's possible oil and gas drilling ordinance and hear from the lawyer who put it out. *** Looking for a loan? Despite what's happening on Wall Street and at some big banks, it appears New Mexcio's small community banks have money to lend. *** Sen. Jeff Bingaman thinks curbs should be put on transferring nuclear technology from the U.S. to India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerome Block's missing email attachment (Podcast) The Democratic candidate for the northern New Mexico seat on the Public Regulation Commission missed an opportunity offered by the Sierra Club to answer a questionnaire about how candidacy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Feans on Obama/McCain debate (Podcast) Listen to excerpts from the KSFR-hosted debate-watching and public discussion event following the first Obama/McCain debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 26 At Noon midday report (Podcat) We'll recap the events that eventually led to a toppling at the top of the Republican Party in Bernalillo County. *** What are Santa Feans saying about the financial crisis and the Obama-McCain face-off. *** Our reporter talks to a property owner along Canyon Road whose art galleries were flooded in a water-and-sewer system backup. *** A report on early voting in New Mexico. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 25 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Jerome Block, Jr., PRC candidate, admits he lied on his campaign finance report. *** Medical premiums in New Mexico rise faster than income. *** Thornburg Mortgage misses another deadline. *** Local residents push Santa Fe County officials for better communications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fernando C de Baca voices against Blacks (Podcast) KSFR has exclusive BBC audio of an interview with Bernalillo Republican Party Chairman Fernando C de Baca. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O&G "drilling zones" in S.F. County (Podcast) Oil and gas "drilling zones" being planned for Santa Fe County. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 22 First official of Santa Fe Indian School to talk (Podcast) On a Monday morning back in August, numbers of Santa Feans driving by the Indian School on Cerrillos Road were surprised to see piles of rubble where several dozen buildings had been for nearly a hundred years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 17 At Noon midday report (Podcast) New Mexico customers pay more than a million dollars a year in insurance premiums to AIG Insurance. Are their policies safe? *** Like KSFR, the editor of the Las Vegas, N.M., newspaper has been looking for PRC candidate Jerome Block, Jr., too. *** St. Johns College in Santa Fe shuns college ranking surveys. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 16 At Noon midday report (Podcast) You'd probably ask for your money back if you were the state agency giving a million bucks to create new jobs at a company that since had job layoffs. *** Electric cars in our future? Sen. Jeff Bingaman says he heard testimony this morning in Washington that it's a possibility. *** And we'll check in on a land-lease auction at the state land office. Among the acreage, 13,000 acres in Mora County that could be up for oil and gas drilling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 15 At Noon midday report (Podcast) We'll hear from one of the evangelical preachers who's arranged an old-fashioned tent revival in Santa Fe. It's the first outside group to rent out the new Santa Fe Community Convention Center. *** A new report says Santa Fe Community College and others like it around the nation are having to gear up with remedial classes for as much as 40 percent of incoming students this fall. *** Santa Fe's Rail Yard has just completed a major milestone - its official dedication. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 12 SF County commissioners-to-be concerned about O&G drilling (Podcast) Two soon-to-be members of the Santa Fe County Commission say they're concerned about oil and gas drilling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 12 At Noon midday report (Podcast) KSFR has obtained a copy of a cable television interview with Jerome Block, Jr., PRC candidate from northern New Mexico. *** We'll talk with two soon-to-be members of the Santa Fe County Commission to find out how they're studying up on oil and gas drilling. *** An El Dorado citizens group gets a range of opinions on the question of drilling. *** And what are those tall towers city hall wants to put up in some Santa Fe neighborhoods, including the 400-year-old historic district? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 10 At Noon midday report (Podcast) We've heard from the state health department, now we'll hear from advocates for medical marijuana why there's such a delay in fully implementing New Mexico's one-of-a-kind medical marijuana law. The political campaign rhetoric about oil drilling has been fairly simplistic. *** We'll ask Energy Committee Chairman Sen. Jeff Bingaman whether there's any chance for a meaningful energy policy. *** And more details on Santa Fe's newest public school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sept. 9 County "outreach meeting" list bloated? (Podcast) KSFR News has learned that more than half of the meetings Santa Fe County officials call Oil and Gas "Outreach" meetings have actually been among county employees, commission members and other insiders, including the Sheriff's Department. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sources: St. Vincent should share merger docs A county commissioner and a watchdog group both say the merger agreement between St. Vincent Regional Medical Center and the ChristUS healthcare group should be shared. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SF County approves emergency drilling ordinance (Podcast) Santa Fe County Commissioners have unanimously approved an emergency oil and gas drilling ordinance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 24 At Noon midday report (Podcast We'll check the status of those frozen water meters around Santa Fe. *** Is domestic violence on the rise in the city? *** A historic preservation group puts up a visual protest over the height of the proposed Santa Fe County courthouse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 2 At Noon midday report (Podcast) We'll take a look at how much money the various candidates, including Bill Richardson, have raised in Iowa for the caucuses that take place tomorrow. *** Joining us will be another opponent of oil drilling in Santa Fe County who says it's not fair that county officials will hold a hearing on a new ordinance before anyone has had a chance to read it. *** And how does New Mexico rank when it comes to economic competitiveness? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nov. 16 At Noon midday report (Podcast) Another hearing on a proposal to drill for oil in the Galisteo Basin area of Santa Fe County. *** Gov. Bill Richardson gets a first-answer shot at the latest Democratic presidential debate. *** How bad is food insecurity in New Mexico? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nov. 9 At Noon midday report (Podcast) City and County leaders are locked in debate over where to put Rail Runner train stations in Santa Fe. *** We'll talk with a top Rail Runner official to see if that debate is interfering with the schedule for the train coming to Santa Fe. *** They have two portable buildings, now homeless advocates want the city to allow them to be on city land. But how does that process work? *** And we'll hear from a disappointed New Mexico Libertarian Party over a decision by a federal court Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part 2 Nov. 7 At Noon midday report (Podcast) In Part 2, we listen in as Congressman Dennis Kucinich reads his resolution to bring articles of impeachment against the vice president. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part 1 Nov. 7 At Noon midday report (Podcat) We'll talk with a local environmentalist who for a brief time this morning went to the state attorney general's office to take it over. *** We'll hear from the governor's office about why they feel is was OK for a paid lobbyist from PNM to be allowed full access to the governor's inner offices. *** Santa Fe water officials are looking for assurance that drinking water turned out by the massive Buckman Diversion Project won't be full of radioactive contaminants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SPECIAL: Few cell-phone scofflaws are caught (Podcast) Santa Fe police issued an average of nearly six citations a day last year for driving while talking on a hand-held cell phone. But our reporter counted 65 drivers disobeying the law in just one hour at one intersection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cell phone drivers (Podcast) A KSFR reporter spots 65 drivers illegally holding cell phones while driving in one hour at one intersection in Santa Fe. The police average for citations is about six a day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 27 At Noon midday report (<b>Podcast</b>) As we look at swine flu, we also ask the state health department how can the death toll of Americans be as high as 1,500 a week, during flu season, from ordinary flu? *** Excavated dirt is being trucked from a Santa Fe County construction site from a location known to be contaminated with hazardous levels of petroleum waste. *** Students at the failing College of Santa Fe on stage with the last production at the renowned Greer Garson Theater. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website