Reporter Jackie Jadrnak, currently on leave from The Albuquerque Journal has been spending some of her off time starting a new blog called jj sez.
She talks about about health, the environment, politics, sexism and lot of issues. Check it out.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
ROUNDHOUSE ROUNDUP: AND THEN THERE WERE TWO
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
May 17, 2007
Last week, I named the Richardson cabinet officials who have contributed to his presidential campaign and the four who did not.
To refresh your memory, those not on Richardson’s first-quarter campaign finance report were Higher Education Secretary Beverlee McClure, Health Secretary Michelle Lujan-Grisham, Tax and Revenue Secretary Jan Goodwin and National Guard Adjutant Gen. Kenny Montoya.
One week later, Richardson’s office has announced two of those four will be leaving the administration.
Coincidence? Probably.
But as Jimmy Olsen used to say, “Jeepers, Mr. Kent!”
McClure was the first to go. The governor’s office announced her departure Friday. She’ll be leaving in June to become president and chief executive officer of the state Association of Commerce and Industry.
Then on Monday, the governor’s office announced the health secretary is out.
Unlike McClure, Richardson isn’t going to appoint a search committee to find Lujan-Grisham’s replacement. She’s being replaced by Dr. Alfredo Vigil, chief executive officer of El Centro Family Health in Española.
The fact that the new health secretary was already chosen would seem to indicate that Lujan-Grisham’s departure has been in the works for some time.
She told reporters she’s planning to run for a political office, as yet to be named. Maybe that’s why she didn’t contribute to Richardson’s White House fund. She’s saving up for her own race.
The governor’s people of course deny there’s any requirement to donate to Richardson’s campaign. “They can contribute to whoever they want,” spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said last week. “We don’t know who’s contributed to the campaign.”
One possibility, at least in the cases of the two outgoing secretaries, is they might have known their time in the administration wasn’t long, so they didn’t bother donating to the presidential run.
So what about the two who haven’t contributed who remain? Last week Goodwin told me nobody had pressured her for a contribution.
On Wednesday, Montoya said the same. “Since I’ve worked for the governor, he’s never even asked me what political party I belong to,” the general said. “He’s done a good job of keeping the National Guard out of politics. We’re the guys who represent everybody.”
Close but no cigar: A potential Republican presidential candidate might have picked up on our governor’s funny campaign ads, which have received loads of national attention.
In case you’ve been living in a political fallout shelter for the past week or so, Richardson unleashed a couple of spots in which he’s a nervous job applicant sitting across a desk from a potential employer obviously unimpressed by Richardson’s résumé.
Fred Thompson who plays a down-home district attorney on Law and Order, made a funny — but pointed — video as a response to left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore.
In challenging the ex-senator from Tennessee to a debate over national health care policy, Moore brought up Thompson’s love of Cuban cigars. He refers to a description of Thompson’s office in a recent article in The Weekly Standard — “box upon box of cigars — Montecristos from Havana.”
“While I will leave it up to the conservatives to debate your hypocrisy and the Treasury Department to determine whether the ‘box upon box of cigars’ violates the trade embargo, I hereby challenge you to a health care debate,” Moore wrote on his Web site.
Thompson’s video reply has been on cable news shows as well as the Internet.
“You know, the next time you’re down in Cuba visiting your buddy Castro, you might ask him about another documentary filmmaker,” Thompson said, big cigar in mouth. “His name is Nicolás Guillén (Landrián). He did something Castro didn’t like, and they put him in a mental institution for several years, giving him devastating electroshock treatments. Mental institution, Michael. Might be something you ought to think about.”
Thompson makes a good point about freedom of expression under Castro. But he sidesteps the issue of breaking the embargo, not to mention that Cuba’s cigar revenues indirectly help fund those mental institutions and jails.
Could Cuban cigars replace John Edwards’ haircuts as the next weird little issue to pop up in the presidential race?
If so, our cigar-loving governor might already have his answer prepared. In 2004, he was smoking a Havana during an interview with a Salt Lake City Tribune reporter. “Since you’re smoking a Cohiba, what would you do with Cuba?” reporter Brent Israelsen asked.
“I would continue pressing Castro on human rights,” Richardson said. “I think his record is abominable. But I believe the best way to change Cuba is to consider some openings, perhaps some economic openings, rather than isolating it.” Richardson also said he’d lift the travel ban for people wanting to visit Cuba.
May 17, 2007
Last week, I named the Richardson cabinet officials who have contributed to his presidential campaign and the four who did not.
To refresh your memory, those not on Richardson’s first-quarter campaign finance report were Higher Education Secretary Beverlee McClure, Health Secretary Michelle Lujan-Grisham, Tax and Revenue Secretary Jan Goodwin and National Guard Adjutant Gen. Kenny Montoya.
One week later, Richardson’s office has announced two of those four will be leaving the administration.
Coincidence? Probably.
But as Jimmy Olsen used to say, “Jeepers, Mr. Kent!”
McClure was the first to go. The governor’s office announced her departure Friday. She’ll be leaving in June to become president and chief executive officer of the state Association of Commerce and Industry.
Then on Monday, the governor’s office announced the health secretary is out.
Unlike McClure, Richardson isn’t going to appoint a search committee to find Lujan-Grisham’s replacement. She’s being replaced by Dr. Alfredo Vigil, chief executive officer of El Centro Family Health in Española.
The fact that the new health secretary was already chosen would seem to indicate that Lujan-Grisham’s departure has been in the works for some time.
She told reporters she’s planning to run for a political office, as yet to be named. Maybe that’s why she didn’t contribute to Richardson’s White House fund. She’s saving up for her own race.
The governor’s people of course deny there’s any requirement to donate to Richardson’s campaign. “They can contribute to whoever they want,” spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said last week. “We don’t know who’s contributed to the campaign.”
One possibility, at least in the cases of the two outgoing secretaries, is they might have known their time in the administration wasn’t long, so they didn’t bother donating to the presidential run.
So what about the two who haven’t contributed who remain? Last week Goodwin told me nobody had pressured her for a contribution.
On Wednesday, Montoya said the same. “Since I’ve worked for the governor, he’s never even asked me what political party I belong to,” the general said. “He’s done a good job of keeping the National Guard out of politics. We’re the guys who represent everybody.”
Close but no cigar: A potential Republican presidential candidate might have picked up on our governor’s funny campaign ads, which have received loads of national attention.
In case you’ve been living in a political fallout shelter for the past week or so, Richardson unleashed a couple of spots in which he’s a nervous job applicant sitting across a desk from a potential employer obviously unimpressed by Richardson’s résumé.
Fred Thompson who plays a down-home district attorney on Law and Order, made a funny — but pointed — video as a response to left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore.
In challenging the ex-senator from Tennessee to a debate over national health care policy, Moore brought up Thompson’s love of Cuban cigars. He refers to a description of Thompson’s office in a recent article in The Weekly Standard — “box upon box of cigars — Montecristos from Havana.”
“While I will leave it up to the conservatives to debate your hypocrisy and the Treasury Department to determine whether the ‘box upon box of cigars’ violates the trade embargo, I hereby challenge you to a health care debate,” Moore wrote on his Web site.
Thompson’s video reply has been on cable news shows as well as the Internet.
“You know, the next time you’re down in Cuba visiting your buddy Castro, you might ask him about another documentary filmmaker,” Thompson said, big cigar in mouth. “His name is Nicolás Guillén (Landrián). He did something Castro didn’t like, and they put him in a mental institution for several years, giving him devastating electroshock treatments. Mental institution, Michael. Might be something you ought to think about.”
Thompson makes a good point about freedom of expression under Castro. But he sidesteps the issue of breaking the embargo, not to mention that Cuba’s cigar revenues indirectly help fund those mental institutions and jails.
Could Cuban cigars replace John Edwards’ haircuts as the next weird little issue to pop up in the presidential race?
If so, our cigar-loving governor might already have his answer prepared. In 2004, he was smoking a Havana during an interview with a Salt Lake City Tribune reporter. “Since you’re smoking a Cohiba, what would you do with Cuba?” reporter Brent Israelsen asked.
“I would continue pressing Castro on human rights,” Richardson said. “I think his record is abominable. But I believe the best way to change Cuba is to consider some openings, perhaps some economic openings, rather than isolating it.” Richardson also said he’d lift the travel ban for people wanting to visit Cuba.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
NIGHTMUSIC!
No, I'm not turning this blog into a YouTube satellite, but I just realized that Youtube is crawling with clips from the coolest music show to ever grace the nation's television airwaves, Nightmusic. Here's a link to lots of 'em.
You can find Pharoah Sanders, Nick Cave, The Pixies, Richard Thompson, Graham Parker, NRBQ ... and so many more. I've been complaining for years that this show isn't available on DVD. But at least we have YouTube.
Below is one of the most infamous Nightmusic performances of all time. Conway Twitty singing the blues with dancing by The Residents.
You can find Pharoah Sanders, Nick Cave, The Pixies, Richard Thompson, Graham Parker, NRBQ ... and so many more. I've been complaining for years that this show isn't available on DVD. But at least we have YouTube.
Below is one of the most infamous Nightmusic performances of all time. Conway Twitty singing the blues with dancing by The Residents.
A PLEA ... FOR THE CHILDREN
I just realized that Dean Martin is smoking a cigarette in the YouTube video I posted just a moment ago ("My Rifle, Pony and Me.") That might earn a R-Rating for the movie Rio Bravo in the near future. (See news item HERE)
So please, PLEASE! Keep this away from the children!
So please, PLEASE! Keep this away from the children!
MY RIFLE, PONY & ME
Thanks to Jim Terr for showing me the way to this YouTube (on a page with lots of old Ricky Nelson videos, most of them featuring James Burton.)
About a year ago, my brother gave me this song on a disc full of weird stuff. I've played it on The Santa Fe Opry, (and I will again.) I also went out and bought the DVD to Rio Bravo, the John Wayne movie from whence it came.
And speaking of YouTube, thanks to Margot Paisley for turning me on to Luis & The Wildfires. I'd never heard of them before.
Monday, May 14, 2007
CONGRESSMAN STANDS UP FOR INDEPENDENT MUSIC AND LOTS OF OTHER GOOD STUFF
I wish we had more politicians who believe in the things that Congressman Mike Doyle was saying last week at a Future of Music Coalition event.
From the FMC blog:
As you well know, a number of issues currently before Congress and the FCC could have a big impact on that process – like media consolidation, net neutrality, and Internet royalty rates.
One disturbing product of the Telecom Act of 1996 has been the rapid consolidation of the ownership of television and radio stations across the country.
This is disturbing on a number of levels.
There’s obvious concern that a radio stationed programmed out of Denver won’t provide much timely local news for residents of, say, Pittsburgh.
That can, at worst, have serious public safety implications, as many have pointed out.
But even on a more mundane level, this process squeezes out all but the most mainstream voices in communities large and small.
I ask you: Could WKRP’s commitment to local news and (Johnny) Fever’s musical vision have survived in today’s consolidated media market?
On a more commercial and artistic level, there’s real concern – which I share – about the homogenization of the content that these broadcasters provide.
It’s clear that the media consolidation we’ve experienced over the last 10 years has reduced the diversity and independence of TV and radio broadcasts dramatically.
A Congressman who thinks radio should be more like WKRP in Cincinnati! That's nothing short of bitchen!
Later in the speech Doyle talks about the possibility of the federal government establishing programs to "encourage the creation of new and different music" similar to the way the National Endowment for the Arts promotes classical music and jazz.
I'm not sure I completely agree with the idea of government-sanctioned rock 'n' roll. But I sure wish a few presidential candidates would pick up on Doyle's basic attitude about the music-industrial complex.
Maybe one has. Apparently Republican Sen. Sam Brownback wants to take that recent ruling that could cripple internet radio behind the barn and kill it with a dull ax.
Again from the FMC blog:
From the FMC blog:
As you well know, a number of issues currently before Congress and the FCC could have a big impact on that process – like media consolidation, net neutrality, and Internet royalty rates.One disturbing product of the Telecom Act of 1996 has been the rapid consolidation of the ownership of television and radio stations across the country.
This is disturbing on a number of levels.
There’s obvious concern that a radio stationed programmed out of Denver won’t provide much timely local news for residents of, say, Pittsburgh.
That can, at worst, have serious public safety implications, as many have pointed out.
But even on a more mundane level, this process squeezes out all but the most mainstream voices in communities large and small.
I ask you: Could WKRP’s commitment to local news and (Johnny) Fever’s musical vision have survived in today’s consolidated media market?
On a more commercial and artistic level, there’s real concern – which I share – about the homogenization of the content that these broadcasters provide.
It’s clear that the media consolidation we’ve experienced over the last 10 years has reduced the diversity and independence of TV and radio broadcasts dramatically.
A Congressman who thinks radio should be more like WKRP in Cincinnati! That's nothing short of bitchen!
Later in the speech Doyle talks about the possibility of the federal government establishing programs to "encourage the creation of new and different music" similar to the way the National Endowment for the Arts promotes classical music and jazz.
I'm not sure I completely agree with the idea of government-sanctioned rock 'n' roll. But I sure wish a few presidential candidates would pick up on Doyle's basic attitude about the music-industrial complex.
Maybe one has. Apparently Republican Sen. Sam Brownback wants to take that recent ruling that could cripple internet radio behind the barn and kill it with a dull ax.
Again from the FMC blog:
After having a near-death experience a few weeks ago, webcasters got another dose of good news. Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., introduced a bill that would vacate a recent ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board. The ruling would have increased royalty rates for webcasters by 300 to 1200 percent (according to Savenetradio.org).
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, May 13, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
NEW: email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Fire on the Moon by The BellRays
Go Betty Go by The A-Bones
Destination X by Dead Moon
Bad Seed by Wayne Kramer
Giant Robot Rock 'n' Roll by The Goblins
Voodoobilly Man by Deadbolt
The Bad Stuff by The Fall
High Class by The Buzzards
Get Me to the World On Time by The Electric Prunes
We're Not Alone by Dinosaur Jr.
Free and Freaky by The Stooges
Letter to Memphis by The Pixies
My Friends Have by Marianne Faithful
To Bring You My Love by P.J. Harvey
Straight to Hell by The Clash
Pow Pow by Dengue Fever
Honeybee (Let's Fly to Mars) by Grinderman
It's So Easy by Willie DeVille
You'll Never Change by Detroit Cobras
Ana by Los Straitjackets with Little Willie G
I Need Someone by Thee Midnighters
Neighbor Neighbor by Roy Head
I Got a Lot to Learn by Esquerita
Satisfied Fool by Nathaniel Meyer
I Can't Control Myself by The Strawberry Zots
Hotrods to Honolulu by The Blue Hawaiians
Flaming Cheese by The Red Elvises
Gamagaj by Cankisou
Breath by Pere Ubu
Eyes Behind Your Head by John Hammond
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
NEW: email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Fire on the Moon by The BellRays
Go Betty Go by The A-Bones
Destination X by Dead Moon
Bad Seed by Wayne Kramer
Giant Robot Rock 'n' Roll by The Goblins
Voodoobilly Man by Deadbolt
The Bad Stuff by The Fall
High Class by The Buzzards
Get Me to the World On Time by The Electric Prunes
We're Not Alone by Dinosaur Jr.
Free and Freaky by The Stooges
Letter to Memphis by The Pixies
My Friends Have by Marianne Faithful
To Bring You My Love by P.J. Harvey
Straight to Hell by The Clash
Pow Pow by Dengue Fever
Honeybee (Let's Fly to Mars) by Grinderman
It's So Easy by Willie DeVille
You'll Never Change by Detroit Cobras
Ana by Los Straitjackets with Little Willie G
I Need Someone by Thee Midnighters
Neighbor Neighbor by Roy Head
I Got a Lot to Learn by Esquerita
Satisfied Fool by Nathaniel Meyer
I Can't Control Myself by The Strawberry Zots
Hotrods to Honolulu by The Blue Hawaiians
Flaming Cheese by The Red Elvises
Gamagaj by Cankisou
Breath by Pere Ubu
Eyes Behind Your Head by John Hammond
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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