This Saturday dozens of protests will take place across the country, including New Mexico, as part of the No Kings movement.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Garcia Richard says she made the decision after her husband of 26 years, Eric Velasquez, was diagnosed with cancer. Garcia Richard says the demands of campaigning were incompatible with her husband's health needs.

Over the last seven years $1.6 billion dollars have been spent on New Mexico students’, especially those named in the landmark Yazzie/Martinez lawsuit, but inequities have persisted. Advocates are outraged as years of promises have been broken and many kids in the state’s public education system have been left behind. On the next Let’s Talk New Mexico we’ll dig into why the state has yet to carry out the plans.

Margaret Randall is a poet, writer, translator, photographer, and activist whose archives are held at the University of New Mexico. She has authored over 200 books, and on this episode she talks about her two most recent: "Letters From the Edge: Outrider Conversations" and "More Letters From the Edge."