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KGLP's local interviews, specials, and other content recorded in Gallup, New Mexico, and the surrounding area around the Arizona border, McKinley County, and elsewhere
Gallup, NM - On Monday May 12, 2025 Gallup and surrounding area residents met on the sidewalk in front of the GMCS administration offices to ask the school board and elected leaders for transparency and accountability about our children's education, and to oppose the Trump Administration's assault on education.
Trump is proposing to Congress that the federal government pull back billions of dollars in K-12 education investments. He has said he wants the Department of Education to be closed "as soon as possible."
Participants also wanted to bring attention to allegations of ethics violations by GMCS superintendent Hyatt.
Audio of a few voices from the April 5, 2025 "Hands Off" rally in Gallup, NM, part of a national day of action.
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Indivisibles,
It’s Sarah Dohl -- one of Indivisible’s co-founders and Chief Campaigns Officer.
It’s been 66 days since Trump was sworn in again. And already, we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than we could have imagined.
Federal agencies gutted. Thousands of public servants purged. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wiped out. Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” burrowed into Treasury and Social Security, raiding programs and trying to seize control. ICE allegedly snatching permanent legal residents off the street and deporting people without due process, in open defiance of court orders.
And while they consolidate power, we’re watching something just as dangerous: Obedience. Silence. Compliance.
✔️ Republicans in Congress are tying themselves into knots to excuse lawlessness and gross incompetence (like sharing war plans on Signal).
✔️ Law firms are dropping civil rights cases, fearing political retaliation.
✔️ Media outlets are pulling punches under threat of lawsuits and Musk’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
✔️ Universities are canceling protests and suspending faculty to avoid federal blowback.
✔️ Judges are going quiet in the shadow of a Supreme Court that handed Trump criminal immunity.
✔️ And yes -- even some Democrats are telling themselves it’s safer to stay silent (or, you know, voting to confirm a Trump State Department nominee hours after a major national security incident).
That’s not caution. That’s complicity.
Real-talk: This is how authoritarianism takes hold -- through silence, normalization, and a political class hoping someone else will go first.
April 5: We Go Loud That’s why on Saturday, April 5, we’re taking to the streets.
To say:
✋ Hands off our healthcare.
✋ Hands off our Social Security.
✋ Hands off our schools, our data, our rights, our bodies, our democracy.
We believe peaceful, non-violent resistance works -- because we’ve seen it.
From Anchorage to Atlanta, you’ve hosted town halls, confronted MAGA politicians, filled empty chairs, donned chicken suits, and called out Democrats trying to duck the fight. Thousands of you have shown up at 50501 protests across the nation. Historic crowds have joined the Fighting Oligarchy rallies with Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
It’s Working -- And They Know ItWe know we’re having an impact because Elon Musk is attacking us by name. Because what we’re building together is loud, visible, and threatening to those in power.
They see this movement rising. And they’re scared.
That means it’s time to go bigger.
April 5 isn’t just a protest -- it’s a recruitment drive. There are millions of people watching this crisis unfold, waiting for a reason to jump in. We need to show them the resistance is real.
We’re not just showing up for ourselves -- we’re showing up for:
→ The judges afraid for their safety
→ The journalists getting threats
→ The federal staffers and university leaders under pressure
→ And yes -- the Democrats who’ve lost their nerve
We’re proving they won’t be alone if they choose to fight. That courage is contagious -- and public, peaceful resistance is how it spreads.
We Need Your Help to Pull This OffThis kind of mobilization takes real resources to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars (really):
🗺️ Maps and tools to connect event hosts and attendees
🌐 Websites, graphics, and toolkits to help us spread the word
💪 Host recruitment, training, and support
📦 Signs, supplies, tech platforms, and staff
Here’s how to help right now:
👉 Donate now to power this movement
👉 Find an April 5 event near you
👉 Help us spread the word about Hands Off! with our social toolkit
As of today, we’ve got 129 organizational partners -- including MoveOn, the Working Families Party, 50501, and more. We’ve got 600+ events in all 50 states -- and even one in London.
This is the kind of power they’re scared of.
So on April 5, let’s declare:
We will not go quietly.
We will not obey in advance.
And we will not be ruled by kings.
In this fight with you,
Sarah Dohl
Indivisible Co-Founder & Chief Campaigns Officer"
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Anna Rondon, Project Director for the New Mexico Social Justice & Equity Institute, which opened in Gallup's Rio West Mall on April 3, 2025.
More information is available at:
https://www.nmsocialjustice.org/ and at
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/NM%20Social%20Justice%20Equity%20Tri-Fold%20and%20Flyer%2020.pdf
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with gallupARTS Executive Director Rose Eason about the coming March 29, 2025 launch of Gallup's Virtual New Deal Art Museum.
Celebrate the launch of the Gallup New Deal Art Virtual Museum on Saturday March 29, 2025, from 9:00am – 8:00pm with a full day of drop-in events that will include:
-New Deal Tea party
-Self guided tours of the New Deal Art in the Library, Courthouse Mural and the First Floor mosaic tile and tin lamps
-New Deal Artists talks
-Hands-On Paper Crafts
-Up close look at the New Deal Furniture in the Courthouse Rotunda
-Raffles & more
For more information visit www.galluparts.org/newdeal
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Ken Collins, Executive Director of Gallup's Hozho Center for Personal Enhancement (https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/HozhoCtrHousing2024wTriFold.pdf) and two clients now living at the new Hozho Recovery Home in Gamerco, the latter holding a Grand Opening on March 3, 2025 - the Flyer is available at:
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KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Val Wenglar, Executive Director of Gallup Community Health, about the upcoming December 14, 2024 day of Cervical and Breast cancer screenings, STI and HIV testing, plus COVID and FLU vaccines.
PAP-apalooza Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening Day, plus testing and vaccines.
Gallup Community Health is partnering with the Navajo Nation Breast & Cervical Cancer Prevention Program and Assured Imaging Mobile Mammograms for a PAPapalooza and Breast Cancer Screening Day on Saturday, December 14. The screenings will take place at Gallup Community Health, 2111 College Dr in Gallup from 8 am – 5 pm.
3D Mammograms will be available to eligible patients. Also available are pap tests, STI and HIV testing, COVID and flu vaccines. No referrals are needed. To make an appointment for 3D Mammograms, call 505-397-5172. Walk-ins are welcome for the other tests and vaccines.
For more information, you may call 505-397-5172.
Bilingual English-Spanish flyer is available at:
https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/PAP%20Breast%20VAX%20121424%20eng%20esp%20FLYER.png/:/
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KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Dr. Christopher Dyer about plans for a Conference on Climate Change Disaster Resilience and Adaptations for the Indigenous and Rural Southwest.
Press Release on November 21 and 22, 2024 Conference on Climate Change Emergency Response planned at UNM-Gallup (New Mexico):
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/Climate%20Reversed%201121%20to%20112224.pdf
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with representatives of the Santa Fe Recovery Center, which plans to offer walk-in support for patients starting on November 7, 2024.
From their press release, now posted at KGLP.org's "PSA's and Events" page, i.e.,
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/SF%20Crisis%20Ctr%20DropIn%20starts%20110724.pdf
Gallup, NM – October 23, 2024 - McKinley County residents will have a new place to go for respite
during a mental health or substance use crisis. Santa Fe Recovery Center announced today that it will
begin accepting adult patients ages 18 and older beginning November 7, 2024, at its new building in
Gallup located at 2028 East Aztec Ave. The project is funded through a grant from New Mexico
Human Services Department, Health Care Authority to increase and sustain access to crisis services in
the region.
Selected Audio recorded October 26, 2024 at Window Rock Tribal Park, in Window Rock, Arizona, the capitol of the Navajo Nation, during a Harris/Walz "Early Vote Celebration" themed campaign rally, focusing on the importance of the Native American vote.
From a Navajo Nation press release:
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation President welcomes Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to the Navajo Nation capital on Saturday, Oct. 26, to present the Harris/Walz platform, and the need for Navajos and Arizona Natives to vote in the most crucial election of a generation.
“Whether you believe it or not, your vote determines who sits in the White House and in Congress,” President Nygren said. “Whoever is in the White House is important because as a sovereign Navajo Nation, we will work with the new leader to serve our Diné people."
According to the Arizona 2020 Census, Native people make up 6% of the state’s population. About 300,000 of Arizona’s Natives are old enough to vote.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with New Mexico's Secretary of State, Maggie Toulouse OIiver, about Election Integrity, AI and Deepfakes, disinformation, and the discerning voter, as we approach the November 5, 2024 election, including State, Federal, and regional or local offices and issues.
A voter toolkit, including tips on recognizing disinformation, AI, deepfakes, and more, may be found at:
https://www.sos.nm.gov/ai/
General election and voting information is available at:
https://www.sos.nm.gov/voting-and-elections/voter-information-portal-nmvote-org/
Ms. Oliver has called New Mexico home since the age of 3 and is New Mexico’s 26th Secretary of State. She has served the people of New Mexico in this role since first being elected in 2016.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with representatives of several recovery programs in Northwestern New Mexico. The Strong Fathers program has the goal of increasing the economic stability of fathers and their families, promote positive parenting, and increase healthy relationships and co-parenting in Native communities. For more information, you may e-mail stronfathers21@gmail.com, or you may call 928-208-7458.
The Hozho Center for Personal Enhacement is planning a Recovery Month Celebration at their Howard Johnson office, in Gallup, New Mexico, on September 30, 2024 - the flyer is available at:
https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/Hozho%20Center%20Recovery%20Month%20event%20093024.jpg/:/rs=w:1280,h:1657
On August 25, 2024, in Gallup, New Mexico, Professor Wade Campbell (Boston University) talked about “Fortresses and Foodways: Research in Dinétah”
The Indigenous food sovereignty movement advocates for the reclamation of ancestral foods in Native communities like the Navajo Nation. What can archaeological research offer to these discussions? This talk shares the results of a recent project that analyzed ceramic sherds from a ~300+ year old Diné habitation site near Navajo Reservoir, NM. The results of this work provide evidence for a variety of early Navajo food preparation techniques, which are both similar to and different from what is done today in Diné communities. How then can we link this historical look at Diné diet with the ongoing food sovereignty movement in Indigenous communities? Dr. Campbell will also share a quick update on the ongoing early Navajo fortress project he discussed last summer.
Dr. Wade Campbell is a Diné (Navajo) historical archaeologist who grew up in Gallup. His research examines the relationships between Diné communities and other local groups in the U.S. Southwest from the 17th century to the present day, including the Pueblos, Spanish, and Americans. He is engaged with a range of questions related to longer-term patterns of Navajo settlement and economic activity across the greater Four Corners region, with a particular focus on incipient Indigenous pastoralism and related shifts in land-use, social organization, and diet/subsistence practices. At present Wade is an Assistant Professor in Boston University's Department of Anthropology & Archaeology Program.
The lecture is sponsored by the Plateau Sciences Society a group dedicated to the study and appreciation of the social and natural sciences relating to the Colorado Plateau and its people. The community is cordially invited to this free event and encouraged to stay afterwards for a reception and to learn more about the PSS and its activities. The Plateau Science Society programs are varied and deal with the Pre-history, History, Geology, Geography, and Cultures of our area.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Linda Farnes homelessstoriesproject@gmail.com, of the Gallup Burrito Project, a community outreach program that provides meals, toiletries, clothing, showers, and haircuts to members of our community living without basic resources. Our goal is to restore dignity and self-respect to those living unsheltered, and to help those who have forgotten, remember who they are. We meet every Friday evening at a volunteer’s home to roll burritos. On Saturday mornings from 10-1 at Redwood Lodge, we serve the under-served in our community. If you are looking for a way to serve YOUR community that’s impactful, uplifting and fun, we would love to have you! Youth groups and organizations welcome.
Please join us and see how we roll!
For more information, please call Linda at 863-633-9984.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with representatives of the Navajo Nation Special Diabetes Program, including staff from the Crownpoint, NM, Wellness Center.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Gloria Dee and Thomalisa Yazzie of Capacity Builders, Inc., a non-profit organization working with the Drug Enforcement Administration to hold a Family Summit in Shiprock, New Mexico starting at 8 a.m. on both June 25 and June 26, 2024.
The Capacity Builders website is: https://capacitybuilders.info/
Flyers for the summit and resource fair are available at:
https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/Shiprock%20Rev%20Family%20Summit%200625n062624.png/:/cr=t:0%25,l:0%25,w:100%25,h:100%25
and at:
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Dan Kruis speaks with Patty Lundstrom, New Mexico State House District 9 incumbent, who is on the ballot for the June 4, 2024 primary.
Audio from Session 6 of the "Business of Art Bootcamp" at UNM-Gallup, with WESST.
This is one of 6 sections over the course of 2 days, Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20, 2024.
Audio from Session 5 of the "Business of Art Bootcamp" at UNM-Gallup, with the second panel discussion.
This is one of 6 sections over the course of 2 days, Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20, 2024.
Audio from Session 4 of the "Business of Art Bootcamp" at UNM-Gallup, with Brian Fleetwood.
This is one of 6 sections over the course of 2 days, Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20, 2024.
Audio from Session 3 of the "Business of Art Bootcamp" at UNM-Gallup, with the first panel discussion.
This is one of 6 sections over the course of 2 days, Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20, 2024.
Audio from Session 2 of the "Business of Art Bootcamp" at UNM-Gallup, with Kayleigh Begay.
This is one of 6 sections over the course of 2 days, Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20, 2024.
Audio from Session 1 of the "Business of Art Bootcamp" at UNM-Gallup, with Eric Paul Riege.
This is one of 6 sections over the course of 2 days, Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20, 2024.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Marianne Williamson, who is a candidate running for the Democratic nomination for President of The United States in 2024. She’s a successful entrepreneur, bestselling author, political activist, and globally influential spiritual thought leader.
For over three decades, she has been a leader in spiritual and progressive circles. She is the author of 16 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.
Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit organization that has delivered more than 16 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS.
She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance to support the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace, and has hosted the Sister Giant Conferences that have educated and encouraged thousands of women throughout the country to engage in political activity.
The pillars of Williamson’s Presidential campaign are the restoration of America’s middle class through an Economic Bill of Rights, including universal healthcare, tuition free college and tech school, and a guaranteed living wage; the establishment of a Department of Peace and the Department of Children and Youth; the declaration of a Climate Emergency to mass mobilize for the development of a green energy grid; and ending America’s Drug War. Williamson believes the transformation of American society requires that we address the root causes of our problems, and not only their symptoms.
If elected, Williamson will be the first female, the first mother and the first grandmother to be President of the United States.
Please share this link: Marianne2024.com
Social Media = Twitter: @MarWilliamson
Instagram: @MarianneWilliamson
TikTok: @MarWilliamsonOfficial
Statement from the Marianne Williamson 2024 Campaign
President Biden has clinched the Democratic nomination for the Presidency.
Voters in New Mexico still have an opportunity to weigh in on his agenda, however.
A vote for Marianne Williamson in the Presidential primary sends a message that certain issues need to be reflected in his campaign, not only because they matter to us, but because they are key to defeating Donald Trump in November.
The core of the Williamson agenda is fundamental economic reform; “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” has become “a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations” and we must change that. Short term profit maximization for huge corporate interests has become a false god in America, an economic governing principle that has replaced democracy itself as America’s new bottom line. It is the task of this generation to end that trend. The Democratic Party should display an unequivocal advocacy for the working people of the United States, and only a truly progressive agenda will achieve that.
With 39 per cent of Americans now reporting that they regularly skip meals to pay their rent, and millions literally selling their blood plasma to pay bills, a message that the economy is doing well is not the message that will inspire people to vote Democrat in 2024. We need an Economic Bill of Rights: improved Medicare for All, tuition free college and tech school, paid family leave, guaranteed sick pay, and a guaranteed living wage. We need a U.S. Department of Peace, a Department of Children and Youth to deal with the many and dangerous risks to our kids, and a mass mobilization for a just transition from a dirty to a clean economy. We also need a ceasefire in Gaza; the United States should stand for a robust commitment to the peace, safety and security of both Israelis and Palestinians.
Our campaign in 2024 must motivates people to think that yes, if they vote for the Democrat it will materially improve their lives over the next four years.
The American economy delivers true prosperity to only twenty per cent of our citizens. We desperately need a President who is willing to stand up to what FDR referred to as the “economic royalists” that have turned our government into a system of legalized bribery. We need to push back against the corporate overlords who now exercise a system of economic tyranny by which a few keep getting rich and the majority have a harder and harder time just getting by.
The American people have been trained to expect too little. Now is the time to make clear that such things as universal health care, tuition free college, and a guaranteed living wage - all provided to the citizens of every other advanced democracy in the world - should be provided to every American citizen as well. The last fifty years have seen a fifty trillion-dollar transfer of wealth from the bottom 90 per cent of our people to the top one per cent, and the message of the Democratic Party should be, “That stops now.”
That is how we will beat Donald Trump, and it is also how we will heal the country.
A vote for Marianne Williamson in the New Mexico primary is the way to make sure that President Biden will get the message.
With great respect,
Marianne Williamson for President 2024
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Bob Ippel, Executive Director of Rehoboth Christian School, and Dan Meester, the high school principal there, who will succeed Mr. Ippel this Summer of 2024, as the new Executive Director of the school.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Christopher Hudson, who is on the primary ballot for the New Mexico State Representative for District 9.
Dan Kruis speaks with Avral T. McCabe, Red Lake Chapter President from the Navajo Nation, who is a Democrat, challenging incumbent, Democrat Patty Lundstrom, in the race for State House Representative, District 9 - the Primary is scheduled for June 4, 2024. The other challenger is Democrat, Christopher Hudson.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with UNM-Gallup lecturer Dana Aldis, who previews the upcoming "Business of Art Bootcamp" happening from 9am until 3pm, MDT, on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20, 2024, a free event with seminars and artist panels, to be held in the campus's Calvin Hall Auditorium. The flyer is available at:
https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/BizOart-0419n042924.png/:/rs=w:984,h:1273
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Maura Schanefelt of Gallup's 4 Corners Detox Center, and Kourtney Muῆoz, of the Santa Fe Recovery Center, its parent organization, about the coming expansion of outpatient services to 1808 E Aztec.
Website: https://www.sfrecovery.org/
The March 4, 2024 press release on the expansion of 4 Corners Detox Center planned for April 1, 2024 may be seen at: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/downloads/SFrecovery%204corners%20Detox%20moves%20040124.pdf?ver=1710523812827:
Four Corners Detox Recovery Center moves to new facility - New Office on East Aztec to Provide Medication Assisted Treatment and Telehealth Services -
Beginning April 1, 2024, residents of Gallup and the surrounding areas will have an easier time accessing outpatient services for substance use disorder treatment. Four Corners Detox Recovery Center (FCDRC) announced today that it will move its outpatient program to the Aztec Professional Building at 1808 E Aztec made possible with funding from a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant.
FCDRC will host an open house at the new facility on April 3rd. Email kmunoz@sfrecovery.org for details and to RSVP.
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About the Santa Fe Recovery Center - (SFRC) is a non-profit, CARF-accredited (Commission for the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) substance use disorder (SUD) treatment center operating in Santa Fe and Gallup, NM. SFRC was established in 2005 to respond to the long-existing problem of substance use plaguing Northern New Mexico. SFRC provides detoxification, residential treatment, regular and intensive outpatient treatment, and medication-assisted treatment. In 2020, at the request of the State of New Mexico Department of Health and the New Mexico Human Services Department, Santa Fe Recovery Center was tapped to fill the void in evidence-based SUD treatment options in McKinley County in an effort to help eliminate gaping health disparities in this rural, underserved community. Shortly thereafter, Four Corners Detox Recovery Center (FCDRC) was established in Gallup, NM.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Gallup Community Health's Executive Director, Val Wangler, and Kris Pikaart, who is heading up GCH's new Behavioral Health program.
2024 Press Release: “Gallup Community Health has moved to a larger space. Because of the demand for our services, we are bursting at the seams. We are now seeing patients at our new location, which is: 2111 College Drive, in Gallup....the former RMCH College Clinic building. Gallup Community Health’s phone number is the same as is our commitment to providing excellent, accessible health care for all, regardless of ability to pay. If you need to make an appointment or contact a provider after hours for an urgent need, call 505-397-5172. We are accepting new patients. Remember, all appointments are taking place at our new location... 2111 College Drive”
More information is available at:
https://gallupcommunityhealth.org/
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Dana Aldis, ART123's Studio Coordinator, about the March 11 - 15, 2024 Spring Break Art Camp (9am - 3pm each day) atART123 Gallery - Play art games, learn to weave with everything from yarn to straws, make dolls, bracelets, a masterpiece basket, and new friends! $150/camper Register by March 6: www.galluparts.org/springbreak
Dr. Marsha K. Hardeman spoke at UNM-Gallup, for Black History Month, on February 2, 2024: Black History is American History. Marsha hadn’t always envisioned herself as the multi-talented law school graduate, educator, and civil rights advocate that she is now. Born in Indiana, Hardeman originally
studied sociology and psychology. Fascinated by the human psyche and why people do the things
they do, she knew she wanted to work with people. She had a passion for helping people and being
involved in her community and saw these fields as ways to continue doing that professionally. It was
not until she moved to New Mexico with her husband in the 1970s that she thought about graduate
school, and what her next steps might be.
While looking into graduate programs, she saw that the UNM School of Law was ranked nationally
as one of the top five clinical law programs. “The idea that this clinical law program sought to serve
the community appealed to me, so I applied,” she says. Turns out, it was one of the best decisions she
ever made.
After admission to the UNM School of Law, Hardeman found many ways to get involved. At the
time, the Dean was Fred Hart, and Robert Desiderio was the Associate Dean. Hardeman recalls both
leaders very fondly and says that the school felt like a second home. “Students had the opportunity to
forge relationships with professors, which was such a rare thing. Many of those relationships have
lasted until this day. There is a distinct longevity to these friendships; people have stayed connected
and are still friends all these years later.”
For nearly all three years of law school, she baked her way through. She first started by bringing in
homemade goods and sharing them with the faculty as gifts. Fred Hart, the dean at that time, who
savored the smell of the homemade fruit cake, told her she should start selling them, and with his
blessing, she did just that. With the honor system, she’d leave the goodies in the cafeteria, and
students and faculty would put some change into a little, slotted coffee can she had made. At the end
of the day, she’d go collect her money, and that’s how she helped pay her way through school.
Outside of her baking hobby, Hardeman found many ways to get involved with the school and her
fellow students. She was the first woman and first Black student elected as the Student Bar
Association president, from 1976-77, and she also served as the Black American Law Students’
Association (B.A.L.S.A.) president from 1975 through 1976. After she graduated in 1977, she went
on to work for the City of Albuquerque in the City Attorney’s office, as court administrator for the
old municipal court, then later as personnel director for the City. Before she left her various roles
with the City, she had served under three (and a half!) different mayors, with additional service as
Director of the Human Services Department and Director of the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Her career then took her in different and diverse directions, a testament to her character and her
desire to stay active, continuously be learning and engaged with her communities. From starting her
own management training/consulting business and educating people about employment law, legal
liabilities in the workplace, cultural diversity and civil rights trainings, to teaching at the University
of Phoenix in subjects ranging from criminal justice, human resources management, business law and
business communications, Hardeman has done it all, and continues to be actively involved in a
variety of ways with her church and community.
But Hardeman doesn’t just define herself in these ways; she believes in being a well-rounded
individual with many different experiences because that’s how she believes you grow and learn.
Something she views as a lifelong pursuit.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Dr. Connie Liu and Dr. Hannah Palm, Ob-Gyn's & Community Activists in the Four Corners region of the United States, about reproductive healthcare access in New Mexico and the Southwest since the SCOTUS Dobbs decision rolled back the rights afforded by the Roe v Wade decision of half a century before.
This local segment airs at the end of the 7th of seven podcast episodes produced by The Nocturnists: "Post-Roe America", airing on KGLP each Friday from December 1 through December 22, 2023: Through intimate conversations with abortion providers nationwide, "The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America" delves into the aftermath of the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade. Hosted by family and reproductive medicine physician Ali Block, this series explores the profound clinical, logistical, and emotional implications of the 2022 Dobbs decision from the frontlines of reproductive healthcare.
Link to the "Post-Roe America" podcast: https://exchange.prx.org/series/45532-post-roe-america
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Joyce Graves about Gallup Relay for Life's Holiday Home Tour, planned for December 10, 2023:
The Relay For Life Holiday Tour of Homes
benefits the American Cancer Society,
and is planned for Sunday, December 10th.
Attendees will meet at Grace Bible Church,
222 Boulder Drive, in Gallup, by around 4:30 pm,
with the home tours then starting at 5 p.m.
For more information, you may call:
Joyce, 505-862-1457, or Linda, 505-879-5384.
The Flyer is posted to KGLP dot ORG,
on the “PSA’s and Events” page.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with UNMG Ingham Chapman Gallery director Dana Aldis and featured artist Aaron Berg about his exhibition and show, "The Harvest", with Mr. Berg's artist talk planned for 6-7 p.m. MDT on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at UNMG's Calvin Hall
The flyer and artist's abstract is available at:
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/UNMG%20Zollinger%20Art%20Talk%20101923%20in%20Calvin%20Hall.pdf
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Deanna Aquiar and Julius Roanhorse of the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, who is collaborating with the City of Gallup to bring a Film & Media Expo to Gurley Hall from 11am until 4pm, Mountain Time, on Friday, Ocober 6, 2023, at the University of New Mexico Gallup, 705 Gurley Avenue.
The Expo will provide an opportunity to meet and network with industry professionals, such as union representatives, studios, and others in the business of film and media.
Students, artists, business owners, or anyone with an interest in the entertainment industry.
Major production companies are also expected to attend. The public may attend, and organizations may register for a table, at: www.tinyurl.com/FilmGallup
For more information, you may call 505-373-4670.
The Full Press Release and Flyer are posted to KGLP dot ORG, on the “PSA’s and Events” page:
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/Gallup%20press%20release%20for%20100623%20Film%20%26%20Media%20E.pdf
KGLP's Yolanda Travers, host of the "Don't Worry, Be Happy" show, 2pm Mountain on Thursdays, speaks with Sister Rose Marie Ceccini, who is retiring after years of service in the area around Gallup, New Mexico, the Navajo Nation, and as a founder of Gallup Solar, among many other accomplishments.
Fort Defiance, Arizona native and expert skateboarder Di'Orr ("Diorr") Greenwood created a skateboard design with paint, artistic woodburning, and inlaid crushed turquoise. Her Navajo culture is further reflected on a deck
featuring eagle feathers and a colorful burst in hues evoking a rising or setting sun. KGLP's Jon Decker speaks with Di'Orr and Fort Defiance postmaster Genevieve Cooley about the stamp project.
More on the stamps at:
https://www.tulsastamps.com/product/100-forever-stamps-2023-usps-first-class-art-of-the-skateboard-2023-stamp-5-books-20pcs-book/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItuOVoqjLgAMVHKRaBR2tPQxuEAAYAiAAEgLOIfD_BwE
KGLP's Yolanda Travers, host of the "Don't Worry, Be Happy" show, speaks with Dr. Dawid Rechul, MD, about his work with a sleep clinic,
The Sleep Spot - Maimonides
3500 Comanche Rd NE Ste C Albuquerque, NM 87107
https://thesleepspot.com/
1-505-998-7200
More on Dr. Rechul:
https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-dawid-rechul-xymrj4c
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Ken Collins, Executive Director of the Hozho Center for Personal Enhancement, a Peer Supported wellness center, assisting recovery from addiction, with mindfulness based stress reduction, sweat lodge, and AA meetings each Wednesday @ 10am, Mountain, plus possible support for those dealing with long-term effects of traumatic brain injury. Works with other recovery organizations, including Four Corners Detox.
The path toward Recovery can be difficult. One2One is a program where an individual with substance abuse or mental health issues can meet with a Certified Peer Support Worker or "Mentor". The individual may receive treatment service through individual sessions and support groups. Assessment and evaluation services are available, if needed. Referrals, calls and walk-ins accepted. At Howard Johnson2915 West Historic Highway 66, Room 1203Gallup, NM 87301hozhocenter@gmail.com505-330-1885 Hozho Center flyer with a list of partnering organizations is available at: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/HozhoCtrTriFoldScan.pdf ###
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with representatives of the Santa Fe Recovery Center and their Gallup branch organization, the Four Corners Detox Center, about services and an upcoming event:
A "Rally 4 Recovery" is planned in Gallup's Downtown Courthouse Plaza, from 10:30am until 2:30pm, MDT, on Saturday, September 16, 2023, in association with Four Corners Detox.
There will be live entertainment, food trucks, games, activities, recovery resources, art, and more.
For details, you may visit:
https://www.sfrecovery.org/recovery-rally/
or call 505-413-3447.
Four Corners Detox Recovery Center
2105 Hasler Valley Rd.
Gallup, NM 87301
505-413-3447
(a branch of the Santa Fe Recovery Center,
5312 Jaguar Dr.
Santa Fe, NM 87507
505-471-4985
https://www.sfrecovery.org/ )
...working with individuals to sustain lasting recovery from substance abuse disorders and related mental health disorders, by providing culturally relevant, evidence-based treatment and education, in partnership with other community organizations, such as GIMC, The Hozho Center, and more, through both referrals, calls and walk-ins.
Four Corners Freight Rail June 2023 Public Meetings: The Navajo Nation And San Juan County Have Formed An Important Partnership To Increase Opportunities For Our Families And Communities In Our Region Through Rail.
They Are Teaming With The Federal Railroad Administration To Evaluate And Identify Potential Railroad Routes And Facilities Along US 491 And NM 371, Environmental Benefits, And Forecast The Potential Economic Possibilities For The Region.
This Connection Would Improve Traffic Safety … And Make The Area More Attractive As A Resource For Economic Growth And Decrease Shipping Costs For Businesses.
The Four Corners Freight Rail Feasibility Study Will Consider Potential Options For Economic Development Through Rail Service … Which Could Create More Businesses Within The Region And Bring Additional Tax Revenues That Will Directly Benefit The Local School Systems And Other Social Services.
More Business Could Mean Learning Opportunities And Career Pathways For Local Children, Allowing Them To Stay In The Region And Raise Their Families Close To Home.
Join The Freight Rail Study Team For Public Information Meetings From 4 To 7 P.M. On Wednesday, June 21st, at Newcomb High School In Newcomb, New Mexico, and on Thursday, June 22nd, at Navajo Technical University's "Wellness Center", on the Crownpoint, New Mexico campus.
Can’t Make It? We Still Want To Hear From You. Submit Your Questions o r Comments And Learn More About The Potential Project On The Study website:
https://www.4cornersfreightrail.com/.
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KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with New Mexico's Taxation and Revenue Secretary, Stephanie Schardin Clarke, about tax rebates coming to the State's residents in June 2023, sharing income from oil and gas well receipts.
KGLP's Keiyah Jones speaks with Loren Anthony, who appears in the film, "How to Blow Up a Pipeline", which makes its screen debut at 7pm on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in El Morro Theatre. The flyer is available at: https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/Film%20How%20to%20Blow%20Up%20a%20Pipeline.jpg/:/cr=t:0%25,l:0%25,w:100%25,h:100%25 (at KGLP.org, in "PSA's and Events", or https://kglp.org/psas-%26-events.)
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Dr. Carmela Lanza, English professor at UNM-Gallup, and one of the editors in the Red Mesa Review Collective, i.e., the publishers, inviting submissions from UNMG students, staff, faculty, area community members - anyone, by sometime April 1, 2023. At 5:30pm MDT on Thursday, April 6, 2023, UNMG's Zollinger Library Atrium will have a hybrid in-person / ZOOM reading and open mic evening. The ZOOM link is https://unm.zoom.us/J/95822015476
KGLP's Strider Brown, host of Deer Tracks, 12-2pm, Mountain on Mondays, speaks with Lenny Foster of Ft. Defiance, Arizona, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the February 27, 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota by the American Indian Movement.
Article: https://blog.genealogybank.com/on-this-day-71-day-occupation-of-wounded-knee-ends.html/amp?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=DSA&utm_content=All%20Pages&utm_term=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI08rRz52n_QIVBUNyCh3wfgVAEAAYAyAAEgKZFfD_BwE
BeWellnm is New Mexico's Official Health Insurance Marketplace, and the time for enrollment in 2023 coverage is now! The deadline to apply for coverage is January 15, 2023.
BeWellnm will be hosting an enrollment event at the Gallup McKinley County Chamber of Commerce on Friday, December 16th, from 3 to 7 pm, to assist people in the enrollment process.
In this podcast, KGLP's Emma Farley sits down with BeWellnm representative Misti Dickens to discuss healthcare options in 2023.
UNMG's John Zimmerman moderated a forum on December 7, 2022, featuring Chancellor Candidate (and Interim Chancellor) Dr. Sabrina Ezzell.
More information may be found at https://gallup.unm.edu/
KGLP's Rachel Kaub speaks with some of the cast and crew members involved with a stage production of Metamorphosis, adapted by Steve Moulds from Franz Kafka's famed novella.
The play will be presented in Gallup's El Morro Theatre at 7pm Mountain on Friday, December 9 and Saturday, December 10, then at 2pm on Sunday, December 11, 2022. Tickets will be available at the door for $10. Rated PG-13, for adult themes.
The flyer is available at:
https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/GRT%20Metamorph%201209-121122.jpg/:/rs=w:1300,h:800
KGLP's "Deer Tracks" host, Strider Brown, speaks with New Mexico author John Nichols (The Milagro Beanfield War, The Sterile Cuckoo, et. al.), about his new memoir,
"I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer"Details of the book are available at:
https://smile.amazon.com/Got-Mine-Confessions-Midlist-Writer/dp/0826363792/ref=sr_1_2?gclid=EAIaIQobChMImObu18LZ-wIVcuWGCh2ciAMuEAAYAiAAEgI_dvD_BwE&hvadid=580631393679&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1022538&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvrand=12819183172943506028&hvtargid=kwd-321277220296&hydadcr=9997_13532475&keywords=john+nichols+books&qid=1669935564&sa-no-redirect=1&sr=8-2
On Tuesday, September 27th, the Navajo Voters Coalition held this Presidential Candidate Debate at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, AZ. While the Nez/Abeyta campaign was unable to attend, the public was able to hear from Buu Nygren and Richelle Montoya. This audio is a KGLP original recording of the event.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with McKinley County, NM Undersheriff, James Maiorano, who is running for McKinley County NM Sheriff. Early voting is October 11 through November 5, with the general election scheduled on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.
GOP candidate Elreno Henio, discusses his campaign for McKinley County, NM Sheriff with Dan Kruis.
Henio is from Thoreau. He comes from the Redhouse Clan born for Apache, and has Mexican roots from his mother’s side. He has been a law enforcement officer for 26 years, and has been with the Navajo Nation Police for eight years.
On Thursday, August 25, several leaders from the Biden-Harris administration visited Farmington, New Mexico, to highlight how historic investments from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will address legacy pollution, invest in new clean energy projects, and lower energy costs for working families.
We hear from the following:
- Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland
- Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese
- Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with the plaintiffs and SOMOS un Pueblo Unido New Mexico attorney regarding an August 2022 wage theft case, recently awarding two workers who were not paid, or paid fully, by a Gallup employer.
--- Press Release, with link to video of 8/17/22 Press Conference in Gallup ---
Gallup Judge rules in favor of workers not paid for hours worked at Farmington restaurant. Video of the bilingual press conference may be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjdo8wEu6c
Gallup, NM - August 17, 2022 - On Thursday August 4th, a state District Court judge ruled in favor of two Gallup workers who were not paid for all their hours worked at a local restaurant and ordered they be paid more than $116,000 in unpaid wages and damages.
Jose "Pancho" and Sandra Olivas, Gallup residents and members of the Somos Un Pueblo Unido in McKinley County, worked for Morgan Newsom, a Gallup business owner at his Farmington restaurant in 2014 and 2015 for more than six months and were not paid for all their hours, including overtime hours.
Following a trial that was held last March, 11th Judicial District Court Judge Robert A. Aragon found both Mr. and Mrs. Olivas’ were individually owed wages for more than 800 straight-time hours and more than 900 overtime hours. Judge Aragon ordered the Olivas’ be paid for their unpaid wages, plus interest and treble damages– or an additional amount equal to twice their underpaid wages– as dictated by New Mexico wage laws.
"This decision is a victory for workers across the state and it shows employers that we cannot be exploited. If we all come together as a community we can hold them accountable to follow the law and pay our hard earned wages. " said Jose "Pancho" Olivas.
Newsom hired the Olivas’ to remodel and run 505 Burgers, his Farmington restaurant, in 2014. Mr. Olivas was sometimes paid for his hours worked, but Mr. Newsom frequently failed or refused to pay Mr. Olivas’ for all of his wages; Mr. Newsom never paid Ms. Olivas for her hours worked. During their employment, they both worked between 70 to 100 hours per week, seven days a week.
"This decision sends a message to other employers who do not pay workers their duly earned wages, they run the risk of owing workers much more than just their unpaid wages,” said Gabriela Ibañez Guzmán, staff attorney with Somos Un Pueblo Unido's Worker Center and co-counsel in the lawsuit against the NM Department of Workforce Solutions.
Pancho Olivas is also the lead plaintiff in a statewide class action complaint against the NM Department of Workforce Solutions filed in 2017 for not adequately enforcing wage and hour laws. The 2017 class action lawsuit resulted in a 2018 settlement agreement between workers and workers' rights organizations and the Department of Workforce Solutions (DWS) to ensure the state government will carry out its duty to enforce New Mexico's strong anti-wage theft laws and hold employers accountable when they violate these laws.
“After everything we suffered, justice triumphed. We want our story to serve as an example that we should not remain silent or fear retaliation. We have to remember that there are many organizations like Somos Un Pueblo Unidos that can help us and give us the support to fight for our rights.” Said Sandra Olivas. “That is why we must continue the fight and not only demand that our simplest rights be protected, but demand more from our governments and the people who make the decisions.”
The case, Olivas v. Serna , was filed in January 2017 by four victims of wage theft, including the Olivas’, and workers' rights organizations Somos, El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos, New Mexico Comunidades en Acción y de Fé (CAFÉ), and Organizers in the Land of Enchantment (OLÉ). View the bilingual press conference (en Español y English) on YouTube, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjdo8wEu6c
Links:
Final court order: https://files.constantcontact.com/b6dfe469001/4e361585-8120-40c0-aefa-b2a8ffbb27cd.pdf?rdr=true Olivas' statements: https://files.constantcontact.com/b6dfe469001/ad57ef3e-2dff-4191-9566-2807ecd71aaf.pdf?rdr=true
Somos Un Pueblo Unido is a statewide immigrant-based civil and workers' rights organization with membership teams in eight counties and offices in Santa Fe, Hobbs and Roswell.
On Friday, August 12, 2022, at 11:30 a.m. MDT, U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (N.M.-03) and Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) held a virtual press conference to highlight how the Inflation Reduction Act would impact the lives of all New Mexicans.
During the press conference, Reps. Stansbury and Leger Fernández outlined the Inflation Reduction Act's historic investments in climate, clean energy jobs, and lower costs for health care and prescription drugs that are headed to communities across New Mexico.
You may watch the full video of the Aug. 12 press conference at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LeKkyHEkDYlhD6lGhNQCJXg_Wlvwx3qi/view
KGLP's Emma Farley speaks to Amber Ballenger, the 2021-2022 Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial Queen. They discuss the upcoming Centennial Ceremonial Celebration, taking place August 4-14, 2022 in Gallup. More information can be found on https://www.gallupintertribalceremonial.com.
David R. Scrase, M.D., Acting Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Department o will host a remote news conference July 14, to provide an update on the state’s efforts to address COVID-19.
The video of the press conference is available at:
https://www.facebook.com/nmdoh
Audio from the July 10, 2022 Community Health Action Group's Town Hall, discussing the latest issues threatening local hospital service to the area, including mis-management, financial losses, employees leaving, et. al.
https://www.rmchisourhospital.com/
The Gallup McKinley County Chamber of Commerce has announced a "Meet and Greet" with RMCHCS CEO Robert Whitaker at Sammy C's sports pub, 107 W. Coal Ave., in Gallup, from 5:30 until 7 p.m. MDT, on Tuesday, July 19 (Whitaker is an employee of CHC, which the Community Health Action Group has been critical of, blaming the administration for the departures of many nurses and physicians over the past year as well as for causing the collapse of the Family Medicine Residency Program after only its first year.)
After the June 24, 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision (reversing Roe v Wade), removed the constitutional protections of reproductive rights, leaving laws on such rights to each state, New Mexico Reproductive Health and Justice Organizations and Legislators responded to the SCOTUS decision.
A coalition of New Mexico reproductive health and justice organizations that advocated for passage of the Respect New Mexico Women and Families Act (also known as SB10, the abortion ban repeal) hosted a press conference regarding the SCOTUS decision on Dobbs v. Jackson, and gave context to how this ruling will affect the New Mexico landscape. They were joined by reproductive healthcare champions in the New Mexico House and Senate.
Participating organizations included:
ACLU New Mexico Bold Futures Indigenous Life Ways (Executive Director Krystal Curley, Diné) Forward Together Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains ProgressNow New Mexico Tewa Women United Reproductive health champions in the NM House and Senate
Related:
Biden responds to 6/24/22 SCOTUS reversal on abortion rights, urges voting
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-urges-public-to-vote-after-supreme-courts-abortion-decision/ar-AAYPYx7?li=BBnb7Kz
Here is audio from the May 8, 2022 town hall at which the Community Health Action Group, CHAG, a Gallup area community health group, proposed solutions to the RMCH hospital crisis
The hospital may be facing bankruptcy, with less than a week’s cash reserves, following a year of alleged mis-management, including reports of the forced exodus of a dis-proportionate number of health care providers and staff from the organization, and more recently, of grossly in-adequate supplies and unpaid bills.
For more information, you may email:
RMCHisOurHospital@gmail.com
or you may visit the Community Health Action Group (CHAG) at:
RMCHisOurHospital.org
An hour of audio recorded at the April 25 business healthcare forum that was held at Angela's Cafe, in Gallup, NM, to discuss the ramifications of RMCH turmoil for local entrepreneurs, may now be heard at:
https://kglp.podbean.com/e/gallup-business-owners-healthcare-forum/ (Note that less than one day later, the CFO of RMCH, who spoke in this April 25 meeting, was fired by RMCH - see the editorial, below...)
Letter to the Editor of the Gallup Independent, from CHAG: It is less than a month into the tenure of a “new” chief executive at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services, and it is clear, with our hospital on the brink of bankruptcy, that CHC (the hospital’s management company) is pushing forward an agenda of destructive, deceitful and hostile leadership, total disregard of patient and community concerns, and crisis profiteering. In fact, since Mr. Whitaker assumed the title of CHC CEO, communication, transparency and honesty have been even more curtailed:
A report on the financial status of the hospital was not provided to the public during the Board of Trustees meeting on 4/20. The Community Health Action Group has received dozens of urgent, specific first-hand reports of serious supply shortages (e.g., “Not only have we been reusing disposable adult small blood pressure cuffs we now have no Sp02 probes”). Hospital employees are purchasing their own toilet paper, gloves, and medical equipmentand have the receipts to prove it. RMCHCS labeled these reports “misinformation” (4/27 Facebook post). Community members organized to donate 1,200 rolls of toilet paper, 75 pounds of food, 11 reams of paper, eight boxes of nitrile gloves and more desperately needed supplies. Mr. Whitaker’s response? “Donations are not needed as we have all needed supplies” (4/28 Facebook post). At the 4/26 County Commission meeting, CHC and RMCHCS told the County Commission that former CHC CFO Chantelle Venter, a turnover specialist with clearly communicated plans to bring the hospital into solvency, resigned a week prior. The truth is obvious and undeniable: she was fired the day of the Commission meeting and a day after speaking at a community meeting. As seen on video in a 4/27 KOB4 news report, she was escorted from the hospital by security on 4/26. A further clear sign that her departure was sudden and unexpected is that she was scheduled to provide reports during a medical staff meeting on 4/28. Our community demands a stop to the lies. Our community demands transparency. Our community demands accountability. Because we believe these things, the Community Health Action Group is developing a plan for a Management Services Organization to replace CHC, restore the community’s faith in our hospital, and bring the focus back to patient care and community needs.
Our community demands better.
Community Health Action Group (CHAG)
Dr. Connie Liu Rose Eason Brett Hartline Jaylyn Hinkley Sandra Geary Dr. Caleb Lauber Dr. Kathy Mezoff Jean Philips Sara Pikaart Pam Yardley Gwen Wilson
The latest healthcare forum from CHAG, the Community Health Action Group. Recorded at Angela's Cafe in downtown Gallup on Monday, April 25th. Community members discuss how the health of the hospital impacts their business.
Recording of the Red Rock String Ensemble's Farewell Concert, recorded at the First United Methodist Church on Sunday, April 24, 2022.
KGLP's Emma Farley interviews Bill Krzymowski, director of Gallup's Red Rock String Ensemble. They've been performing in Gallup for 17 years. Their final concert is coming up on Sunday, April 24th at 4 pm, at Gallup's First United Methodist Church.
On the "Don't Worry Be Happy" hour, Yolanda speaks for 10 minutes with ventriloquist Willy and his cohort Lester, about appearing in Questlove's Oscar-winning documentary, "Summer of Soul (...or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), based on long archived film footage shot during the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which featured a variety of renowned performances from legends such as Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Nina Simone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Staples Singers, Ray Barretto, The Temptations' former frontman David Ruffin, The 5th Dimension, and more.
NPR story: https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1010306918/summer-of-soul-questlove-movie-review-harlem-cultural-festival
Questlove gets the Academy Award for best documentary:
https://djmag.com/news/questlove-wins-best-original-documentary-oscar-summer-soul
On April 5, 2022, the McKinley County Democrats and the Gallup-McKinley County Chamber of Commerce co-sponsored this community forum with all 5 candidates running for sheriff. The candidates answered a variety of questions about their initiatives, goals and policies. The primary election is June 7, 2022.
Dr. Andrew McFeaters delivers this special presentation at the UNM-Gallup Zollinger Library on March 23, 2022. He explores the political and cultural traditions of Ireland in the past and present.
A video of the talk, with slides, can be found on the Zollinger Library Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ZollingerLibrary/videos/4954148967997042
Audio of the March 18, 2022 Community Town Hall discussing concerns about the administration of the RMCH hospital in Gallup, NM.
The ZOOM recording will be available at www.rmchisourhospital.org.
Community Health Action Group (CHAG) statement: Dr. Val Wangler, New Mexico Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2021 Physician of the Year, founder and director for RMCHCS’s Family Medicine Residency, and the hospital’s former Chief Medical Officer, was terminated without cause from Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital by the management team of Community Hospital Corporation. This caps 1.5 years of management by the Community Health Corporation which has been notable for an estimated >25% staff turnover, including the departure of over 60% of nurses - several times the national average (CHAG estimates). At the March 12th Town Hall, CHAG presented the results of an RMCH employee survey of current and former hospital employees that suggest a “toxic” work environment and “hostile” management is the root cause of this crisis of staffing. The results directly counter statements made by CHC management, including claims that exit interviews are performed, that nurses reported leaving for higher pay, and that local expertise is not available for hire.
"We have a very narrow window to make changes to save the hospital, and bring dedicated staff back," said Dr. Connie Liu, a local physician and a survey administrator. "We are calling on the RMCH Board of Trustees and our County Commissioners to act. We believe our evidence compels action, including termination of the contract with CHC.”
The hospital is a major service point for patients who live in nearby Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo (70% of the patient population at RMCH is Native American), and it is the only hospital where IHS non-beneficiaries can seek care. CHC management reported that RMCH experienced a 2021 cash loss of $9.4 million at the February Board Meeting. In the past month, community members mobilized weekly patient and community protests related to inaccessible clinic phone lines and ongoing, unaddressed reports of patient safety issues. This includes a dysfunctional call light system and inoperable code button system on the Med/Surg/Peds floor, both of which put patients unnecessarily at risk.
To view the CHAG White Paper: Employee Survey Results and Recommendations, please visit the CHAG webpage. www.rmchisourhospital.org
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on March 2, 2022.
UNMG’s Black History Month Speaker, New Mexico’s District 28 Representative, Pamelya Herndon, who serves the constituents of Bernalillo County, discusses her career and journey, with personal thoughts on the importance of education. This was a virtual presentation, recorded on February 23, 2022.
KGLP's Emma Farley sits down with Bob Rosebrough, author of A Place of Thin Veil: Life and Death in Gallup, NM.
Rosebrough describes Gallup, New Mexico as "a place like no other. It is disproportionally and simultaneously wonderful and terrible. It is a place of constant struggle, where the forces of good and evil collide. The former frontier mining town, bordering the Navajo Nation at the far western edge of New Mexico, is one of those few places on earth that have the power to change the course of our lives and transform us deeply."
https://www.amazon.com/Place-Thin-Veil-Gallup-Mexico/dp/1940322529/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1645203931&refinements=p_27%3ABob+Rosebrough&s=books&sr=1-1
KGLP's Station Manager, Rachel Kaub, speaks about changes in access to local vision care, with Gallup area optometrists, Dr. Matthew McGraw, and his wife and partner, Dr. Brandi McGraw, of Gallup Eye Group, plus Kathy Mezoff, retired Gallup pediatrician and wife of John Mezoff, the ophtamologist who founded the Gallup Eye Associates office, which is closing at the end of February, 2022.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on January 19, 2022.
Link to presentation with slides:
https://www.facebook.com/nmdoh/videos/covid-19-day-680-press-update-jan-19-2022/775401953626349
Bernie Dotson interviews Rex Lee Jim, former Vice President of the Navajo Nation, and Kevin Mitchell, Board Member for Gallup-McKinley County Schools, District 1.
They discuss the current state of Navajo language education, as well as what the future might hold.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on January 5, 2022.
Link to presentation with slides:
https://www.facebook.com/nmdoh/videos/416964136888184
Bernie Dotson interviews several individuals from Gallup's Big Brothers Big Sisters program. In this roundtable discussion, we hear from several big brothers and sisters, their "littles," and even the director of the program. They discuss how the program has impacted their lives.
In this roundtable discussion, Bernie Dotson interviews several individuals who are involved with Gallup's Hozho Center for Personal Enhancement. They discuss drug and alcohol addiction in Gallup, and what the road to recovery looks like.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on December 22, 2021.
Link to presentation with slides:
https://www.facebook.com/nmdoh/videos/new-mexico-state-officials-provide-covid-19-update/281396447300683
Bernie Dotson interviews James Malm, chancellor of UNM-Gallup and Elmer Guy, president of Navajo Technical University.
They discuss current operations at their institutions, and how they are dealing with this stage of the pandemic.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on December 15, 2021.
Link to presentation with slides:
https://www.facebook.com/nmdoh/videos/new-mexico-state-officials-provide-covid-19-update/332595721743302
In Gallup, New Mexico, on December 11, 2021, Over 100 community members gathered virtually and in-person, to share their concerns related to Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital (RMCH), a non-profit hospital in rural western New Mexico.
Video from the ZOOM meeting is available at:
www.rmchisourhospital.org.
(The current administration and the board of trustees for RMCH were invited, but apparently did not accept.)
RMCH is a major service point for patients who live in nearby Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo (70% of the patient population at RMCH is Native American), and it is the only hospital where IHS non-beneficiaries can seek care in the county.
The hospital is facing a $9.4 million deficit in 2021 as well as a persistent 1-star CMS Hospital Rating, representing low community confidence and trust. This town hall is the culmination of previous public meetings which consistently raised repeated concerns regarding the management decisions of interim-CEO Don Smithburg, who has entrenched himself in an adversarial stance with staff and community.
At this meeting, multiple staff and community members spoke about broken trust with the hospital leadership, emphasizing the need for strong trustworthy leadership in order to move forward. Community members also repeatedly stated the call for local leadership, especially as the current Board only has one member who lives locally; he fills a non-voting seat.
"Our community needs to understand to understand the plan for our hospital," said Mary Walker, owner of a local weaving shop that has attracted more than a million dollars in tourist revenue from all over the world. "We need to change that plan if it doesn't meet our needs." She emphasized the need to have at least half the board should be residents of McKinley County, as should the CEO.
Community members and former staff discussed their concerns related to the one-star CMS rating and quality concerns at the hospital, including its impact on the financial viability of the hospital.
"Profits and patient-centered care are not mutually exclusive," said Ashley Adams, a quality specialist. "They're correlated and should rise and fall together."
Guest speaker Dr. Tim Putnam, a national expert in rural hospital administration and former CEO of Margaret Mary Health, spoke to the challenges facing RMCH. He stated that rural hospital leadership is challenging, and emphasized trust as an essential part of the job. He encouraged the group to continue their advocacy.
"The more people that want to be part of the hospital thriving, and keeping good nurses, keeping good physicians, getting people to get people to not give up is the biggest thing," said Dr. Putnam. "Once apathy comes in, it becomes difficult - but you guys are far from apathy at this time. I will tell you it is a long road to move a one-star hospital to a five-star hospital, but it can be done."
The Community Health Action Group is a group of concerned McKinley County citizens who organized over the summer around concerns related to Rehoboth Mckinley Christian Hospital.
More information and a video recording from the event is available at www.rmchisourhospital.org
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on December 8, 2021.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on December 1, 2021.
Link to presentation with slides:
https://www.facebook.com/nmdoh/videos/436744228007312/
Bernie Dotson interviews Jon Pairett, Fire Marshall of the Gallup Fire Department and Nathan Emerson, Deputy Fire Chief. They discuss causes of house fires during the holiday season, and other present concerns at the Gallup Fire Department.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on November 17, 2021.
Link to presentation with slides:
https://www.facebook.com/nmdoh/videos/263377225836565/
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on November 10, 2021.
Link to presentation with slides:
https://fb.watch/9dmGMuGMgN/
U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) held this press conference to discuss how the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will deliver for New Mexico. The bill includes billions of dollars to invest in transportation, energy, and water infrastructure and a number of provisions championed by the lawmakers and is the largest long-term investment in our infrastructure and competitiveness in nearly a century.
This legislation passed both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives and now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
The Build Back Better Act, which lowers costs, creates jobs, and cuts taxes, while tackling the climate crisis, is also advancing in Congress. It is estimated that the two bills combined will add on average 1.5 million jobs per year for the next 10 years.
This conference was recorded on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, via ZOOM.
Recording of the Red Rock String Ensemble at the First United Methodist Church on Sunday, November 7, 2021. The Program may be viewed at:
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/RedRockString110721program.pdf
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on November 3, 2021.
Link to presentation with slides:
https://www.facebook.com/nmdoh/videos/423244786076719/
KGLP's Station Manager, Rachel Kaub, interviews Bill Krzymowski of the Red Rock String Ensemble.
The Red Rock String Ensemble will be performing at Gallup's First United Methodist Church on November 7th, 2021 at 4:00 pm, MDT.
KGLP's Emma Farley interviews Rain, director of Somebody's Daughter.
Somebody’s Daughter focuses on some of the highest-profile MMIW cases. With historical points of reference, the victims’ and their families’ stories are told through the lens of the legal jurisdictional maze and socio-economic bondage that constricts Indian Country. For the first time on film, tribal leaders reveal the devastating roles of drug cartels and gangs in the MMIW crisis. The purpose of Somebody’s Daughter is to alert lawmakers and the public alike that the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women crisis exists and demand urgent action.
Somebody's Daughter will be playing at the El Morro Theatre in downtown Gallup on November 5th, 2021 at 6 pm, as part of the day-long Gallup for Indigenous Justice Event.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on October 27, 2021.
Link to presentation with slides:
https://www.facebook.com/nmdoh/videos/388712289609328/
KGLP's Bernie Dotson interviews Jeremy Boucher, director of the Southwest Indian Foundation. They discuss SIF operations, and the organization's current partnership with the Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation.
KGLP's Emma Farley speaks with author Christina M Selby.
Christina is an ecologist, naturalist, conservation photographer and science writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has appeared in several publications including National Geographic online, Scientific American and High Country News.
Her latest book, "New Mexico Family Outdoor Adventure: An All-Ages Guide to Hiking, Camping and Getting Outside," is full of practical tips about motivating kids to enjoy the natural world.
https://unmpress.com/books/new-mexico-family-outdoor-adventure/9780826362926
https://www.amazon.com/New-Mexico-Family-Outdoor-Adventure/dp/0826362923
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on October 18, 2021.
Link to presentation with slides:
https://www.facebook.com/nmdoh/videos/273088841377539/
KGLP's Bernie Dotson speaks with Patty Lundstrom, Executive Director of the Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation. Patty is also a New Mexico State Representative, representing NM District 9. Patty and Bernie discuss economic development in the Gallup area.
This interview was recorded on October 7, 2021, at KGLP Studios.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Gary B. Fogel, adjunct professor of aerospace engineering at San Diego State University in California, biologist, and AI practioner, about his latest book, "Sky Rider: Park Van Tassel and the Rise of Ballooning in the West", including how his first flight in Albuquerque may have had an influence on women in aviation, and on the later birth of the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. Since Gallup's Red Rock Balloon Rally happens December 3 through December 5, 2021, KGLP is featuring this podcast, with broadcast planned for December 3rd at either 12pm or 1pm, MDT.
Amazon listing: https://www.amazon.com/Sky-Rider-Park-Tassel-Ballooning/dp/0826362826
More about Gary B. Fogel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_B._Fogel
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Ana Castillo, about her latest book of poetry, "My Book of the Dead". Ana is a celebrated author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Among her award-winning books are, "So Far From God: A Novel", "The Mixquíahuala Letters", "Black Dove: Mamá, Mí'jo, and Me", "The Guardians: A Novel", and more. Ana's website is https://www.anacastillo.net/
"My Book of the Dead", published by UNM Press, may be found at bookstores and online, including at:
https://www.amazon.com/My-Book-Dead-New-Poems/dp/0826363199
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on October 6, 2021.
This audio was recorded October 2, 2021 at First United Methodist Church, during a "Health Crisis" Town Hall organized for health workers and community members - the local UAPD asked for concerned residents and workers to contact area officials for help with improving RMCH operations and general healthcare - document available at:
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/ASK%20document%20from%20UAPD%20-%20100221%20Town%20Hall.pdf
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on September 29, 2021.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on September 22, 2021.
On the evening of Tuesday, September 21, 2021, the Gallup McKinley County Chamber of Commerce presented a Crime Forum at Hozho Academy, featuring representatives of the City Council, Mayor, City and County law enforcement, City Manager, City Attorney, judges from area courts, and more. The Gallup Police Department provided the following handout, summarizing crime statistics from the last year:
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/648e40c3-d44c-47f5-bec6-8a52b8595c41/CrimeForum092121-2020_Data.pdf
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on September 15, 2021.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with board members of the McKinley County Crimestoppers group.
The group's Facebook page may be seen at:
https://www.facebook.com/Mckinley-County-Crime-Stoppers-1564789497179747
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on September 8, 2021.
KGLP's Emma Farley interviews Kevin Smokler and Christopher Boone, directors of Vinyl Nation.
This 2020 documentary examines the resurgence in popularity of vinyl records over the past 15 years, and the connective power of music. The film is an official selection in the 2021 Dances in Film festival in Los Angeles.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on September 1, 2021.
KGLP's Bernie Dotson interviews Louie Bonaguidi, Mayor of Gallup and Bill Lee, CEO of the Gallup McKinley Chamber of Commerce. They reflect on the past year and a half - how COVID-19 has impacted Gallup's economy, culture and politics.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub talks about recovery in the Gallup area with Mayor Louis Bonaguidi and Gallup McKinley County Chamber of Commerce ED Bill Lee, on August 31, 2021
In celebration of Women’s Equality Day on August 26, 2021, the U.S. Small Business Administration hosted this virtual chat to discuss what the SBA is doing to empower and support women entrepreneurs. As the number of women entrepreneurs in the community grows to unprecedented levels, SBA has resources for women small business owners to survive and thrive amid the COVID-19 pandemic, including through the SBA’s Women’s Business Centers found across the country.
Recorded August 26, 2021.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and takes questions from the media. Recorded on August 25, 2021, via ZOOM.
Wayne Ramm's interview with Stephen Jacques will air, along with a few of Stephen's "Soul Hydraulics" cuts, this Friday, August 27, at 12pm MDT on KGLP, 91.7 FM, in Gallup, NM, and streaming at KGLP.org.
Stephen Jacques is an Alt-rock singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia, who plans to be in Gallup, NM, on August 27th-28th, 2021.
This tour is supporting his 9th Release "Soul Hydraulics"- by Legendary Producer John Morand (Joan Osborne, Carbon Leaf, Cracker, Hanson, David Lowery, Sparklehorse) and Alan Weatherhead. Below are some links to my "Box of Moxie" releases:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/00YEZXdzd9PzgFXXh6xmme?si=5xy6zWBqQMqwBSNtJPzbtA&dl_branch=1
Spotify Stephen Jacques Solo Release https://open.spotify.com/album/798RuVLwAHh9dlKR5kXZ9e?si=t5cxjJgOQUCRlRJZ0WZ1RA&dl_branch=1
Stephen regularly tours the West, and Nationally, 300+ Radio stations have featured his "Submission Admission" Release, voted #29 of the Top 30 Albums for new Adds to Radio Stations by the NACC, National Association of College & Community Radio Stations.
Nuclear Hotseat Podcast # 530: On August 8, as part of the commemoration of the atomic bomb being dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Taos Environmental Film Festival produced an important panel discussion. Anti-nuclear and peace activists shared their views on the problems and possible solutions for nuclear dangers at two New Mexico sites:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) – which is being tasked by the government with producing 30 plutonium pits a year for mega-bombs we do not need. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) – which is already storing low- and mid-level radioactive nuclear waste, but is being proposed for expansion far beyond its intended storage capacity and its use-by date of 2025.
Six activists share histories, actions, and how to build the movement against nuclear:
Executive Director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety Joni Arends, Operations and Research Director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico Scott Kovac, Taos Peace Activist Erich Kuerschner, Founder of Veterans for Peace Santa Fe Ken Mayers, Artist/activist Serit Kotowski, Peace and Justice activist Bud Ryan
Download Podcast at http://nuclearhotseat.com/2021/08/18/new-mexico-nuclear-activists-lanl-wipp-taos/
Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): It’s Evil Numnutz time when it turns out that the 20-year Afghan war was really just a full-employment business strategy for weapons-producing companies. Share this information! Here's a tweet-length post to copy and paste to Facebook, Twitter, forward to friends, etc. New Mexico Anti-Nuclear & Peace Activists brainstorm on how to fight increased Los Alamos plutonium pit production, WIPP extension & expansion PLUS how to build the movement, boost citizen activism involvement. NH 530 https://bit.ly/3gfGf5p
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Navajo Nation President Nez's August 18 address, regarding COVID-19 safety and the Navajo Nation school and orange status.
Bernie Dotson interviews Jim Christian, Executive Director of the Manuelito Children's Home. They discuss operations at the Children's Home, as well as the organization's connection to the Wild Thing Rodeo.
Recording of the Red Rock String Ensemble at the First United Methodist Church on Sunday, August 8, 2021.
Click here for full program details.
KGLP's Emma Farley interviews Ricky Serna, Acting Secretary of the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions. They discuss Ready NM (https://ready.nm.gov/ and 1-800-303-3599), a new website and helpline designed to increase access to employment opportunities in New Mexico.
Recorded, via ZOOM, on August 4, 2021.
KGLP's Rachel Kaub Interviews Bill Krzymowski of the Red Rock String Ensemble. Recorded on Friday, July 27, 2021.
The Red Rock String Ensemble will be performing at Gallup's First United Methodist Church on August 8, 2021 at 4:00 pm, MDT.
The New Mexico Department of Health provides a COVID-19 webinar update, and take questions from the media. Recorded on July 28, 2021.
Bernie Dotson interviews three of the players from Gallup High Schools girl's basketball team, who recently competed in the Native American Basketball Invitational.
Recorded in KGLP studios on July 20, 2021.
KGLP's Emma Farley interviews Micah Thunder, a singer-songwriter from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In his own words, Micah Thunder "makes music that reveals unspoken secrets of the heart."
He'll be playing at the Ancient Way Music Festival on August 7, 2021 at the Old School Gallery, near Ramah, NM.
KGLP's Rachel Kaub interviews The Ordinary Things, an indie rock trio from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Their music aims to capture all of the ordinary, but beautiful things experienced in day-to-day life.
They'll be playing at the Ancient Way Music Festival on August 7, 2021 at the Old School Gallery, near Ramah, NM.
KGLP's Emma Farley interviews Gallup-area band Rippy and the Sillyettes.
Rippy and the Sillyette’s are a family band out of Gallup, NM from the Navajo Tribe. They have been playing live together for 5 years and have grown a well-received following in their hometown of Gallup, NM and the Navajo Reservation.
They'll be playing at the Ancient Way Music Festival on August 7, 2021 at the Old School Gallery, near Ramah, NM.
The Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President, in coordination with the Office of the Controller, hosted this online town hall on Monday, July 12th at 6:00 p.m. to provide more information about the second phase of the CARES Act Hardship Program.
This phase will allow remaining applicants to receive the direct relief funding, and reopen the application process for enrolled members who did not apply for the relief funds last year.
New Mexico Department of Health Secretary Tracie C. Collins, M.D. and Human Services Department Secretary David R. Scrase, M.D. provide a COVID-19 webinar update, and take questions from the media. Recorded on June 16, 2021.
This webinar, from the US Census Bureau, US Department of Agriculture, State Offices of Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, was recorded on Wednesday, June 9, 2021.
Speakers provide an overview of the latest Census data tools on data.census.gov, a new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau.
New Mexico Department of Health Secretary Tracie C. Collins, M.D. and Human Services Department Secretary David R. Scrase, M.D. provide a COVID-19 webinar update, and take questions from the media. Recorded on June 2, 2021.
In this webinar, learn how the NMSBA Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories can help your business grow. Recorded on Thursday, May 27, 2021.
McKinley Mutual Aid Covid-19 Virtual Town-hall, recorded on April 27, 2021.
Community members provide testimony on how the COVID-19 pandemic had a personal impact on access to health, housing, food, water, counseling, transportation, jobs, COVID-19 testing, and more.
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) held this webinar on April 21, 2021, to address small business recovery in New Mexico. The emphasis of the webinar is on the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. They also discuss:
- SBA COVID-19 Economic Aid Funding Options
- Loan & Grant Program Details - PPP, EIDL, SVOG, and Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF)
- PPP Loan Forgiveness
- SBA Resource Partners (local)
- Q&A Session (Questions & Answers)
KGLP's General Manager, Rachel Kaub, interviews Jim Kristofic and Edison Eskeets, authors of the new book Send a Runner.
The book tells the story of a Navajo family that organized a ceremonial run from Canyon de Chelly to Santa Fe, NM in the summer of 2018. That summer was the 150th anniversary of the Navajos' return to their homeland after the Long Walk.
The family uses the power of running to honor their ancestors and the power of history to explain why the Long Walk happened. From these forces, they also seek the vision of how the Diné—their people—will have a future.
The April 21, 2021 presentation of the American Lung Association’s 22nd Annual “State of the Air” report includes the latest air quality trends in the United States, how climate change is impacting air quality, who is most at risk from air pollution, what federal policies can reduce pollution and more.
This audio includes references to slides - those may be seen with the full report:
https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/states/new-mexico
State of the Navajo Nation Address from President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer for the 2021 Spring Council Session. Recorded on April 19, 2021.
A PDF of the full address can be found in the link below.
https://www.opvp.navajo-nsn.gov/Portals/0/Files/STATE%20OF%20THE%20NAVAJO%20NATION/State%20of%20the%20Navajo%20Nation%20Address%20-%202021%20Spring%20Council%20Session.pdf?ver=5fu-R-_uLgZzSN-QJeakaw%3d%3d×tamp=1618850626724
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez speaks April 12, 2021, in Diné Bizaad, on aspects of the latest COVID-19 variants and the U.S. stimulus package.
This episode of 'Tribal Voices from the Pandemic' features a conversation between the moderator and three experts - two physicians involved in the vaccine rollout and the President of the Navajo Nation, all of whom work on Navajo Nation - on being a year into the pandemic and the success of the vaccine rollout. Recorded on Friday, April 9, 2021.
Allie Young, Moderator
- Harness Programs Manager and Protect the Sacred Founder
President Jonathan Nez
- Navajo Nation President
Dr. Chris Percy, M.D.
- Physician, Northern Navajo Medical Center
Dr. Diana Hu, M.D.
- Physician, Tuba City Medical Center
KGLP's General Manager, Rachel Kaub, speaks with Gastroenterologist Dr. Sabine Hazan over ZOOM.
Dr. Hazan is the creator of ProgenaBiome, a state-of-the-art genetic research laboratory. She is also the author of Let's Talk Sh!t, a humorous, easy-to-digest explanation of gastrointestinal disorders and treatments. Her GI treatments have proven to help Covid-19 patients.
Dr. Hazan discusses the role that the gut microbiome plays in aging, as well as her best nutrition tips for a healthy set of microbiomes.
Tribal Voices from the Pandemic is a series of panel discussions with Native leaders that is a collaboration between CORE, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health and Protect the Sacred. This series is designed to amplify Native voices and bring attention to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Native communities.
This podcast episode, recorded on April 6, 2021 via ZOOM, features a conversation between the moderator and two experts: a family doctor and an epidemiologist, both of whom work on Navajo Nation.
- Leonela Nelson, Moderator
- CAIH Program Manager at Shiprock site
- Dr. Sophina Calderon
- Physician, Dept of Family Medicine
- Deputy Chief of Staff, Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation
- Dominic Clichee, DrPH(c), MPH
- Epidemiologist, Tsehootsooi Medical Center
- Candidate, Doctor of Public Health – University of Arizona College of Public Health
Critically acclaimed Mexican-American poet, writer and activist Jimmy Santiago Baca gives a virtual presentation to the UNM-Gallup community. This presentation, titled "Keeping Hope Alive," was recorded on March 31, 202 via ZOOM.
The latest Navajo Health Command Operation Center COVID-19 Forum. Recorded on March 30, 2021.
As part of the comprehensive review of the federal oil and gas program called for in Executive Order 14008, the Interior Department hosted a virtual forum on Thursday, March 25th. The forum featured several panels, to highlight perspectives from industry representatives, labor and environmental justice organizations, natural resource advocates, and other experts. Speakers included U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
The full video presentation may be viewed at: www.doi.gov/events
On March 25, 20201, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined former U.S. Secretary of Education John King and child welfare advocates for an "Investing in Children" press conference, to discuss how the American Rescue Plan will slash child poverty and create long-term economic opportunities for children across the country.
This U.S. House Committee hearing, titled “Examining the Need to Expand Eligibility Under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act,” was recorded on March 24, 2021.
The hearing features the following speakers:
- Jonathan Nez, Navajo Nation President
- Ben Ray Luján, NM Senator
- Gregory Stanton, NM Representative
- Lilly Adams, Independent Consultant Specializing in Nuclear Weapons Issues
- Jean Bishop, Supervisor for Dist. 4 with Mohave County, Arizona
- Scott D. Szymendera, Analyst in Disability Policy, Congressional Research Service
- Tina Cordova, Co-Founder of Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium
The latest Navajo Health Command Operation Center COVID-19 Forum. Recorded on March 23, 2021.
Regional photographer Rapheal Begay gives a virtual artist talk on his current show at LOOM Gallery in Downtown Gallup. Recorded March 16, 2021.
The latest Navajo Health Command Operation Center COVID-19 Forum. Recorded on March 16, 2021.
KGLP's General Manager Rachel Kaub interviews Gloria Ann Begay of the Dine Food Sovereignty Alliance. They discuss the Navajo Junk Food Tax, as well as the community wellness projects that tax will fund.
Gloria Begay is hosting several webinars in the near future for those who wish to learn more. She may be contacted by phone at 505-923-0378, or emailed at stargazer.begay@gmail.com.
Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M), and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham host a virtual press conference to discuss how the American Rescue Plan will help combat COVID-19 in New Mexico and provide relief for struggling families and businesses.
A special town hall, hosted by the Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President, to share information regarding the Navajo Department of Health's new public health emergency orders to transition the Navajo Nation from "red status" to "orange status" in accordance with COVID-19 gating measures.
Recorded on March 10, 2021.
The latest Navajo Health Command Operation Center COVID-19 Forum. Recorded on March 9, 2021.
New Mexico Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart, Health Secretary Dr. Tracie Collins and Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase update the public on expanded in-person learning policies.
The latest Navajo Health Command Operation Center COVID-19 Forum. Recorded on March 2, 2021.
Senate Redistricting Bills Press Conference, recorded on February 18, 2021 by the Fair Districts for New Mexico.
https://www.facebook.com/Fair-Districts-for-New-Mexico-113100726712185/videos/107008927999522/
The latest Navajo Health Command Operation Center COVID-19 Forum. Recorded on February 23, 2021.
Tribal Voices from the Pandemic is a series of panel discussions with Native leaders that is a collaboration between CORE, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health and Protect the Sacred. This series is designed to amplify Native voices and bring attention to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Native communities.
This panel was recorded on Friday, February 18, 2021 and features:
- Panel Moderator Leonela Nelson (JHCAIH, Diné)
- Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan (Anishinaabe)
- President Kevin Killer (Oglala Sioux Tribe)
- Chairwoman GwenDena Gatewood (White Mountain Apache)
- Freddie Lane (Filmmaker, Lummi Nation)
The latest Navajo Health Command Operation Center COVID-19 Forum. Recorded on February 16, 2021.
The latest Navajo Health Command Operation Center COVID-19 Forum. Recorded on February 2, 2021.
Recorded on January 25, 2021, during the 2021 Winter Session at the 24th Navajo Nation Council, featuring updates from Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer.
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham delivers the annual State of the State address on January 26, 2021 from the Roundhouse in Santa Fe.
The latest from the New Mexico Department of Health on COVID-19. This conference, recorded on January 25, 2021, features Dr. Tracie Collins, Secretary of the New Mexico Department of Health, and Dr. David Scrase, Secretary of the New Mexico Human Services Department.
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez leads off the latest update on COVID-19 vaccinations, restrictions, lock-downs, and more, in this January 19, 2021 Facebook forum.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Brian Egolf (D-Santa Fe), Majority Floor Leader, Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton (D-Albuquerque), and Majority Whip, Rep. Doreen Y. Gallegos (D-Las Cruces) provide a preview of Democratic House priorities for the 2021 Legislative Session. This conference was recording January 14, 2021 over Zoom.
On this week's Friday Forum, we feature the latest New Mexico Department of Health press conference on the Covid-19 vaccine distribution. This conference, recorded on January 6, 2021, features NM DOH secretary Dr. Tracie Collins and New Mexico press.
Navajo leaders and activists discuss the COVID-19 vaccine in this panel forum. We hear both a western and traditional medicine perspective as well as from a youth activist. They discuss concerns in the Navajo Nation community.
Guests include:
- Laurelle Sheppard (Moderator, public health professional with Johns Hopkins CAIH)
- Dr. Lance Whitehair (Physician, Shiprock IHS)
- Anson Etsitty Sr. (Traditional Healer from Diné Hataałii Association)
- Allie Young (youth activist and Director of Protect the Sacred)
KGLP speaks with New Mexico's Lieutenant Governor Howie Morales on the latest State Health Order in response to Covid-19. This order will be in effect from November 16, 2020 to November 30, 2020. We discuss how this order impacts businesses, holiday plans and the escalating case load which is threatening hospital response.
KGLP speaks with Dr. Laura Hammitt and Wanda Lefebvre, two researchers from the John Hopkins Center for American Indian Health. They are currently doing research for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial, with participants from the Navajo Nation and White Mountain Apache Tribe. Dr. Laura Hammitt answers questions in English, and Wanda Lefebvre in Navajo.
KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with New Mexico's U.S. Senator-Elect, Ben Ray Lujan, discusses the Fraud and Scams Reduction Act, which is designed to address scams during the COVID-19 pandemic targeted toward vulnerable communities – including seniors, military service members, and Tribes and Tribal members. As has been reported by the Federal Trade Commission, fraud reports have increased by 144% during the pandemic.