Stephen Spitz

"Trampling Out the Vintage" Cesar Chavez and the UFW.

Stephen Spitz — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:46:16 +0000

Fri. 4/5 8a: Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union are American icons, and the UFW is a prime example of a union that fought for higher wages and better working conditions against impossible odds.

The Rise and Fall of the UFW

Stephen Spitz — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:13:00 +0000

4/5 8a: Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union are American icons, and the UFW is a prime example of a union that fought for higher wages and better working conditions against impossible odds. Although the National Labor Relations Act does not cover farm workers, and migrant labor is particularly difficult to organize, at its height the UFW represented 1/3 of all California lettuce workers.

The Rise and Fall of the UFW

Stephen Spitz — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:13:00 +0000

Education Reform in New Mexico

Stephen Spitz — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:01:18 +0000

Fri. 3/1 8a: Can anything really be done to improve K – 12 Education in New Mexico? Improve education is the answer you usually get to New Mexico’s seemingly intractable problems. But, how do you do that?

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher - The Life of Photographer Edward Curtis

Stephen Spitz — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:29:29 +0000

This month’s guest is New York Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner author Timothy Egan whose latest work is a biography, Short

Desert America : Northern New Mexico Through the Eyes of Author Ruben Martinez

Stephen Spitz — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:39:30 +0000

Fri. 10/5 8 am: Ruben Martinez is a journalist, author, musician, and professor of literature and writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

The Life of a Gila Fire Lookout

Stephen Spitz — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:10:55 +0000

Fri. 4/13 8a: April marks the return of New Mexico’s fire season.

Creativity and the Brain, Making the Connection

Stephen Spitz — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:17:55 +0000

Fri. 3/09 8a: Our guest is Dr. Rex Jung, MD and Ph.D. Dr. Jung is a Professor of Neurosurgery at UNMH, a Research Scientist at Albuquerque’s Mind Research Network, and a practicing clinical neuropsychologist.

"Navajos Wear Nikes" Interview With Author Jim Kristofic

Stephen Spitz — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:37:29 +0000

Fri. 9/8 8a: When people ask author Jim Kristofic, who is blue-eyed and brown haired, where he is from, and learn that he grew up on an Indian Reservation, they usually ask, “So are you an Indian?” In his memoir,Navajos Wear Nikes, Kristofic writes that he tries to answer this question the way his Navajo friends would, not with a simple yes or no, but with stories.

The Economics of Health Care Reform

Stephen Spitz — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:46:44 +0000

Fri. 11/11 8a: Republicans, along with many on the Left, continue to question the benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed under President Obama.

Focus on Early Childhood Programs

Stephen Spitz — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:21:00 +0000

Fri. 8/12 at 8am: Stephen Spitz talks with Dr. M. Rebecca Kilburn, Director of Child Policy for the Rand Corporation about early childhood programs in New Mexico.