- This week's guest on REPORT FROM SANTA FE is award-winning novelist, poet, and MacArthur Fellow Sandra Cisneros, the author of “The House on Mango Street.” Her latest work, “A House of My Own,” is a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography—an intimate album of a beloved literary legend. More

This week's guest on "Report from Santa Fe" is New York Times best-selling author Doug Preston describing his expedition with National Geographic explorers in search of the Lost City of the Monkey God in the dangerous, dense tropical jungles of Honduras. Preston's article "Lure of the Lost City" is featured in this month's National Geographic Magazine. More

This week's guest on "Report from Santa Fe; is world renowned artist and muralist John Pugh. Having revitalized the "trompe l"oeil" (trick the eye) art form, Pugh has created over 200 murals worldwide from New Zealand and Taiwan to NYC, San Francisco, Miami, and Santa Fe. More

In observance of National Mental Illness Awareness Week October 4-11, this week's guests on "Report from Santa Fe" are Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino, Chair of the interim Legislative Health and Human Services Committee, and Michele Herling, founder Compassionate Touch Network, and creator of "Minds Interrupted: Stories of Lives Affected by Mental Illness." More

This week's show on REPORT FROM SANTA FE is Part Two of our interview with Craig Childs, naturalist, adventurer, storyteller, and author. His widely acclaimed books include “The Secret Knowledge of Water,” “House of Rain,” “The Animal Dialogues,” “Finders Keepers,” and “Apocalyptic Planet.” In this second part of a 2-part interview, Childs focuses on his book "Apocalyptic Planet," and then describes his explorations and discoveries about Ice Age Man in New Mexico. New Mexico is home to two benchmark sites for American archaeology, the Clovis and Folsom sites dating back some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago. More

This week's guest on "Report from Santa Fe" is Craig Childs, explorer, naturalist, and author, "Apocalyptic Planet," "House of Rain," "The Animal Dialogues," and "The Secret Knowledge of Water." More

Senator Peter Wirth and former Senator Dede Feldman discuss the ethics crisis in the Secretary of State's Office and detail their many efforts to create a New Mexico Ethics commission, make more progress with campaign finance reform, increase transparency, and establish an Elections Commission. More

This week's guest is Paul Barnes, producer, film editor, and collaborator with Ken Burns for 30 years on such award-winning PBS documentaries as "The Civil War," "The Roosevelts," and "The National Parks." Barnes describes and celebrates the re-release of "The Civil War" on its 25th Anniversary, fully remastered in super high definition and scheduled to air nationally on PBS-TV next week. The Civil War documentary is the highest rated PBS series in PBS TV history. More

This interview was taped in 2004 when Jorge Ramos was in New Mexico speaking about his book "The Latin Wave: How Hispanics Will Elect the Next American President." Still true! More

This week's guest on REPORT FROM SANTA FE is Hampton Sides, award-winning author of the acclaimed best-selling histories "Blood and Thunder," "Ghost Soldiers," "Hellhound on His Trail," and "In the Kingdom of Ice." Sides is also an editor at Outside magazine, and is a frequent contributor to National Geographic magazine. Sides wrote the cover article on “Weed: The New Science of Marijuana” for the June 2015 edition of National Geographic. He describes the transformative work being done in medical research on the healing powers of the drug. The article evaluates the latest research in using marijuana and its derivatives to treat glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, cancer, and AIDS and describes new directions for scientific study of the drug. Celebrating the paperback release of his national bestseller “In the Kingdom of Ice, the Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette,” Sides discusses how his work as a narrative historian has captured audiences with his portrayal of great, real life characters, and use of novelistic techniques. “Ice” was named a Best Book of the Year by Time Magazine, USA Today, the Washington Post, and many more. More