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ZOUNDS! October 2016Ode to KUNMBy Michelle OteroPraise that Train to Glory, blessingthe house every Sunday morningbefore the children stir.Praise Pamelya and Cecilia, honeyvoices sending my soulto church in pantyhose and a featheredhat.Praise the driver who towed my twelve-year-oldSaturn from a Phillips Station on Montgomery andthe freeway, where it died in a puff of smoke after150,000 miles. Praise the vehicle donationprogram. Praise the tax deduction.Praise Radio Theatre, Linda, David.I remember A Night in Taos, recordedlive at the Hispanic Cultural Center. Becauseof you, LA Theatre Works and Chavez Ravinecame to me.Praise the call-in show, where expertand listener become one. Praise Gwyneth,Marisa and Ed and Arcie and Sarahand Marcos and all who have guidedcaller and listener alike through theRoundhouse, the budget, educationreform, wild animals, predatory lending,national parks, climate change, fires, theObama effect, Bruce King, Gary Johnson,Richardson, Martinez and drought.Praise the Spoken Word Hour. Ramona,Don, everywhere you go, youmake homes for poetry.Praise Raíces and Espejos de Aztlán, whereI’ve put on headphones and talked Womenin Creativity, La Tierra y El Agua, Hembrasde Pluma, Los Monólogos de la Vagina, where Iam forgiven my college Spanish pocha accent.Praise the elevator signs on the groundfloor of Oñate Hall—El Vato, this way.Praise Generation Justice. You reportfrom a place of love. Shoes off, the groundyou walk is sacred, the microphone agourd where a generation pours storiesof art and addiction and anxiety, depressionand healing. And healing.Praise Salsa Sabrosa. Friday nightsen route to The Cooperage Ipracticed my shoulder shimmyat stoplights against the seat of my car.Praise Singing Wirebroadcasting livefrom the State Fair. Drumsare prayer.Praise Hot Lix, Saturday nights with Charlie Zwhere twenty years ago I sang “Noche de Paz”into a microphone, inviting the masses toLa Compañía’s Christmas play. Thoseyears the state pen tuned to 89.9, prisonerssent Smokey Robinson out to the lady or someCurtis Mayfield to the boys. They wrote him letters.He carried their words to Corrections and drove hisshow to the pen. Outta Joint at the Joint, a familyday.Fifteen years. The lifers loved it best.Praise you, KUNM, Homeof Happy Feet, Freeform, IyahMusic, and the Blues.Praise the driveway moments, the NPR Oneapp, Invisibilia and Serial.Praise Megan in the morning, news on the hour,afternoon All Things Considered. Without you, Iwould embarrass myself at cocktail parties, openconversations with, “I read this headline on Facebook.”Because of you, I am smarter than I am, Isay, “So there was this story on KUNM.”Praise the Pledge Drive. Praise Marys,Oishi and B. Praise the volunteersand RB Winnings for coffee. Praisethe mailer, the scooter. Sendin your card for a chanceto win or call 277-4357,277-H-E-L-P.Thank you for fifty years. You’re goingstrong, and just like people say to me,You don’t look a day over forty.5

ZOUNDS! October 2016KUNM Public Health Reporting UpdateBy Rashad MahmoodFirst of all, a big welcome to the newest additionto the newsroom, Sarah Trujillo! Sarah is a UNMCommunication and Journalism student who alsowrites for the Daily Lobo and has two cats. Shewill be primarily working with us on Public HealthNew Mexico work and has already written storieson the latest poverty data from the census, andthe lack of ob-gyn services in Las Vegas.We’re starting to ramp up our election coveragehere in the newsroom, but there were just a fewother things to cover in September. The trial oftwo APD officers accused of murder in the deathof James Boydbegan on September19.Marisa Demarcoreported extensively on the trial, including thelegal issues at Former oficers Keith Sandy & Dominic Perezstake, how Boyd’sdeath helped trigger the Department of Justiceinvestigation of APD, and recent trends in policeviolence.One issue that will be on the ballot in BernalilloCounty is the renewal of the mill-levy. These fundsgo to UNM Hospitalfor indigent care,but many healthproviders and activists are concernedthat UNM isn’t usingthe funds for theirstated purpose. Reporter Ed Williamsled an important discussion of these issues on theKUNM Call In Show on September 22.As we get closer to the election, the questionof guaranteed paid time off has come up at the national level. Here in Albuquerque, community organizers gathered enough signatures to put a requiredsick leave ordinance on the ballot for Albuquerque.However, Bernalillo County Commissioners voted tokeep it off the ballot because it was too long.All of Marisa’s coverageis available in our series“Voting on Sick Leave.”In “LANL’s Long Environmental Cleanup” EdWilliams reported on cleanup efforts of WWII era radioactive waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory.The cleanup was supposed to be done by 2016, butafter a new agreement, it is estimated to cost another 3 billion dollars and take 20 more years. Ed’s Annenberg Health Journalism project launched and heis already gathering important testimonials from students via a text messaging tool called GroundSource.This month look for more stellar reporting from thePublic Health New Mexico team including more election coverage and a series on sexual assault in NewMexico. All of our work is available at publichealthnm.org. KUNM’s Public Health New Mexico is supportedby the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, McCune CharitableFoundation, and the Con Alma Health Foundation.6

ZOUNDS! October 2016Linda Wertheimer - Senior National CorrespondentBiographyAs NPR’s senior nationalcorrespondent, LindaWertheimer travels thecountry and the globe forNPR News, bringing herunique insights and wealthof experience to bear onthe day’s top news stories.In 1976, Wertheimer became the first woman toanchor network coverage of a presidential nominationconvention and of election night. Over her career atNPR, she has anchored ten presidential nominationconventions and 12 election nights.Wertheimer is the first person to broadcast live frominside the United States Senate chamber. Her 37 days oflive coverage of the Senate Panama Canal Treaty debateswon her a special Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Universityaward.A respected leader inmedia and a belovedfigure to listeners whohave followed her threedecade-long NPR career,Wertheimer providesclear-eyed analysis and thoughtful reporting on all NPRNews programs.In 1995, Wertheimer shared in an Alfred I. duPontColumbia University Silver Baton Award given to NPR forits coverage of the first 100 days of the 104th Congress,the period that followed the 1994 Republican takeoverof Congress.Wertheimer has received numerous other journalismawards, including awards from the Corporation for PublicBroadcasting for her anchoring of The Iran-Contra Affair:A Special Report, a series of 41 half-hour programs onthe Iran-Contra congressional hearings, from AmericanWomen in Radio/TV for her story Illegal Abortion, andfrom the American Legion for NPR’s coverage of thePanama Treaty debates.Before taking the senior national correspondent postin 2002, Wertheimer spent 13 years hosting of NPR’snews magazine All Things Considered. During that time,Wertheimer helped build the afternoon news program’saudience to record levels. The show grew from six millionlisteners in 1989 to nearly 10 million listeners by spring of2001, making it one of the top afternoon drive-time, newsradio programs in the country. Wertheimer’s influence onAll Things Considered — and, by extension, all of publicradio — has been profound.In 1997, Wertheimer was named one of the top 50journalists in Washington by Washingtonian magazineand in 1998 as one of America’s 200 most influentialwomen by Vanity Fair.She joined NPR at the network’s inception, and servedas All Things Considered’s first director starting with itsdebut on May 3, 1971. In the more than 40 years since,she has served NPR in a variety of roles including reporterand host.A graduate of Wellesley College, Wertheimer receivedits highest alumni honor in 1985, the DistinguishedAlumna Achievement Award. Wertheimer holds honorarydegrees from Colby College, Wheaton College, and IllinoisWesleyan University.From 1974 to 1989, Wertheimer provided highly praisedand award-winning coverage of national politics andCongress for NPR, serving as its congressional and thennational political correspondent. Wertheimer traveledthe country with major presidential candidates, coveredstate presidential primaries and the general elections, andregularly reported from Congress on the major events ofthe day — from the Watergate impeachment hearings tothe Reagan Revolution to historic tax reform legislationto the Iran-Contra affair. During this period, Wertheimercovered four presidential and eight congressionalelections for NPR.Prior to joining NPR, Wertheimer worked for the BritishBroadcasting Corporat

Oct 01, 2016 · Ode to KUNM By Michelle Otero Praise the driver who towed my twelve-year-old Saturn from a Phillips Station on Montgomery and the freeway, where it died in a puff of smoke after 150,000 miles. Praise the vehicle donation program. Praise the tax deduction. Praise Radio Theatre, Linda, David. I remember A Night in Taos, recorded