KGLP Podcasts

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, now running as a Libertarian Party candidate for the U.S. Senate, who was in Gallup on September 10, 2018.

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub covered the August 31, 2018 Gallup event with New Mexico State Democratic candidates including Michelle Lujan Grisham (Governor), Howie Morales (Lieutenant Governor), Brian Colon (State Auditor), and other politicians from McKinley County and the Navajo Nation.

This audio includes interviews with Colon, Morales, and Lujan Grisham.

http://www.newmexicansformichelle.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Lujan_Grisham

 

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with members of Tó Nizhóni Ání (Sacred Water Speaks), discussing the status of the Navajo Generating Plant in Page, Arizona, and Peabody Energy's Kayenta mine, the two impacting water tables and potable water sources.  Plans had been announced for closure of NGS, then a push for the sale of the plant to a new operator was promoted by groups including those workers and families affected by the pending closure.

Statement from Tó Nizhóni Ání and Diné CARE

Our Navajo Nation has been exploited by outside corporations before -- and it will happen again and keep happening unless we, the People, voice our concerns…

Wall Street’s Avenue Capital wants to try to squeeze the Navajo Generating Station for their own profit – and then run back to their fancy offices in New York.

The Navajo Generating Station is scheduled to close because energy like solar and wind are now cheaper.

That means Avenue Capital will likely try to cut worker pay and hours -- and cut corners on safety and health – in order to get their short-term corporate gain.

And any new deal on NGS will immediately wipe out all the economic benefits for our Nation that current plant owners have already agreed to. These are vital power line and water resources from the coal plant that we need for building our solar and wind energy economies going forward.

Tell our Navajo Nation Council Delegates not to let Avenue Capital or any corporations get their hands on the Navajo Generating Station and exploit our communities for their outside profit. Please fax comments and concerns to 928-871-7259 or email comments to Comments@navajo-nsn.gov. We will not let anyone stand in the way of our clean energy future! 

 

 

From an interview with KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub and members of Tó Nizhóni Ání (Sacred Water Speaks), a Navajo language segment summarizing discussion about the status of the Navajo Generating Plant in Page, Arizona, and Peabody Energy's Kayenta mine, the two impacting water tables and potable water sources.

Statement from Tó Nizhóni Ání and Diné CARE

Our Navajo Nation has been exploited by outside corporations before -- and it will happen again and keep happening unless we, the People, voice our concerns…

Wall Street’s Avenue Capital wants to try to squeeze the Navajo Generating Station for their own profit – and then run back to their fancy offices in New York.

The Navajo Generating Station is scheduled to close because energy like solar and wind are now cheaper.

That means Avenue Capital will likely try to cut worker pay and hours -- and cut corners on safety and health – in order to get their short-term corporate gain.

And any new deal on NGS will immediately wipe out all the economic benefits for our Nation that current plant owners have already agreed to. These are vital power line and water resources from the coal plant that we need for building our solar and wind energy economies going forward.

Tell our Navajo Nation Council Delegates not to let Avenue Capital or any corporations get their hands on the Navajo Generating Station and exploit our communities for their outside profit. Please fax comments and concerns to 928-871-7259 or email comments to Comments@navajo-nsn.gov. We will not let anyone stand in the way of our clean energy future! 

 

 

BK Taiko Japanese Drum Group of Albuquerque, performing on the 8/11/18 edition of KGLP's Green Chile Show, interviewed by host Tom Funk - the group is performing this evening, August 11th, at 7:15pm in Downtown Gallup, New Mexico, next to Camille's Sidewalk Cafe.

For more information, you may visit http://www.bkwow.com/

or look for BK Taiko on Facebook.

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub again speaks with GOP Senate candidate Mich Rich, who returned to Gallup recently for a talk.  Mr. Rich is running against New Mexico's Democratic incumbent, Martin Heinrich.

On Thursday, July 12, 2018, KGLP's Trey Chavez spoke with Jeremy Boucher, a director of the Project Office at Southwest Indian Foundation, at SWIF's Gallup, New Mexico warehouse facility, about the organization's 2-decade collaboration with Air Force and, this summer, South Carolina National Guard personnel, to build housing for selected residents of the Navajo Nation, with the focus more recently being on homes for Navajo military veterans.

The goal since April of this year is to provide 10 modular-style houses built by some 40 members of the South Carolina National Guard.

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with author Anne Hillerman, who is continuing a series of novels based on characters and situations featured by her father, Tony Hillerman, in his mysteries, with Navajo officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn being among those fictional characters.

 

Ms. Hillerman will be in Gallup, New Mexico on Saturday, July 7, 2018, for events including the film, "A Thief of Time", based on her father's novel, and a talk and panel at the Octavia Fellin Public Library in Gallup.

 

Here is a rundown of Gallup’s Big Library Read presents Hillerman, on Saturday July 7th, beginning at 2:00 p.m.:

 

● The Children’s Branch at 2:00 p.m. welcomes award winning author Ross Van Dusen as part of Gallup’s Big Read celebration. Join Ross on a coloring adventure and experience story making with a master. Voted one of New Mexico’s “Top Ten” favorite New Mexico books of 2017 by the Albuquerque Journal, What Makes Lightning?, awaits your creative exploration.
● El Morro Theatre at 2:30 p.m. special screening of Monster Slayer followed by a Q&A with Nicole Garcia from the Gallup Film Foundation. Monster Slayer is a contemporary retelling of the story of the Hero Twins. Diné teens Shondiin and Nathan Yazzie battle monsters summoned by the mysterious Coyote with the help of their medicine man grandpa and metalhead uncle. http://www.monsterslayerproject.com/
● El Morro Theatre at 3:15 p.m. special screening of A Thief of Time based on the Tony Hillerman novel of the same name. Navajo tribal policeman Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are back! Leaphorn and Chee are entangled in the mystery of an archaeologist turned pottery poacher who thinks she has cracked the secret of the vanished Anasazi culture, when she herself vanishes. Produced by Robert Redford and Directed by Chris Eyre. Running time: 94 min.
● Authors’ Reception at the Main Library Branch, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Please join us for an OFPL Afterhours event “In Conversation” with local authors.  
● Plenary speaker begins at 6:30 p.m. - Anne Hillerman, author of the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Series, followed by a book signing. For more about Anne Hillerman please visit her official website annehillerman.com/
● Author’s Panel begins at 6:45 p.m. Panelist discuss topics related to their inspiration, creative process, methodologies, and projects on the horizon.
● Rani Divine – Science Fiction and Fantasy
● Ross Van Dusen – Children’s Literature and Illustration
● Max Early – Poetry
● Anne Hillerman – Fiction and Non-Fiction
● Martin Link – Non-Fiction and Children’s Literature
● John Lewis Taylor – Biography and Non-Fiction
● Essie Yazzie – Children’s and Young Adult Literature

7:30 – 8:00 p.m. Mix-and-mingle / Book signing

 

Contact the library at (505) 863-1291 or libsuper@gallupnm.us for more information.

 

** Gallup’s Big Library Read Events are FREE to the public

 

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KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Dr. Val Wangler, who has practiced medicine in the Navajo Nation and Zuni, discussing the health impacts of increased Methane released into the atmosphere in the Four Corners area, particularly around Farmington, NM.

At this point, the Obama-era Methane Rule, requiring that extracting companies capture methane during the obtaining of oil from U.S. lands, has been rescinded, allowing developers to pollute the air with those emissions.

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with Joyce Graves and Clarita "Claire" Enriquez of Gallup Relay for Life, discussing the American Cancer Society fundraising and the coming celebration happening in Gallup's Downtown Courthouse Square during the night of Friday, June 15-16, 2018.