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For many of us, the holiday season is a time to reflect on doing good, on helping our fellow humans, and investing in our communities. On this week’s Let’s Talk New Mexico, we’ll be examining what that means from several different perspectives.

This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about a profession with the task of informing the public of the truth: Journalism.We learn from journalists themselves, including Sherri Burr and Loretta Hall from New Mexico Press Women, who let us know what journalists do, and how they are different from paid advertisers. Find out what we can look for to verify the truth of a story.Then we meet Maria Hinojosa, a groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy winning journalist with a new children's book about her life.

This time on The Children's Hour, the Kids Crew get aboard the JOIDES Resolution, virtually, while the ship is at sea off the coast of Portugal. We meet Amy Mayer, the Onboard Outreach Officer for the JOIDES Expedition 397, and research fellow Saray Martinez.We learn how the JOIDES brings up core samples from the ocean floor, that they then slice, x-ray, and study. Some of the soils they are bringing to the surface are over 300 million years old.Scientists aboard the JOIDES stay for a short rotation, and collect as much data as possible. The ship is drilling for core samples 24 hours a day, 7 days a week when they are at the drilling site.

People have called the Rio Grande a main artery, delivering life-giving water to and through our arid state. But year-after-year we see the river continuing to dry – and the ecosystems, communities, and industries that depend upon it are drying up too. On the next “Let’s Talk New Mexico” we’ll discuss the poor health of the Rio Grande and what’s at stake as it shrinks.

Sat 10/8 9a: This week on The Children's Hour we learn about the most inexpensive energy source in the world: solar power. In a show recorded live at the New Mexico Solar Energy Association's Solar Fiesta, the kids talk with solar educator and engineer, Marlene Brown.

Let's Talk NM 9/29 8a: People with substance use disorders often face stigma and discrimination when seeking medical care. Some healthcare providers will blame the patient's SUD for unrelated health problems, even after years of sobriety. That can allow conditions that would be routine procedures under normal circumstances turn into larger, sometimes life-threatening, problems. Moreover, the negative experience from the patient's perspective can make them less likely to seek care in the future.

Sat. 10/1 9a: This time on The Children's Hour were learning about the largest animal to ever live on Earth, which still roams the oceans today: whales.Once hunted to near extinction, some whales are making a comeback. While others remain critically endangered.

This Jazz Is episode features ATJ Wednesday host Pattie Littlefield

Sat. 9/24 9a: This time on The Children's Hour, our summer interns Julia Wolfe and Sophie Anderson-Haynie have co-written and produced a program about Banned Books. They teach us what that means, the history of banning books, and how it's even possible in the era of digital reading.

While statues have been the targets of groups who have suffered hundreds of years of oppression, they are just objects that represent people and ideas that those with more power desire to memorialize. On the next Let’s Talk New Mexico we’ll discuss clashes over historical misunderstandings, the harm and hurt felt today from historical trauma, and efforts to make good in an age of awareness and equity.