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Policing the Police, The Significance of the Afro-Frontier & Santa Fe Period Pods

November 2, 2023
A city skyline with trees and mountains in the background.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor interviews Albuquerque City Council President Pat Davis about delays in council’s handling of citizen oversight for APD. That’s as Mayor Tim Keller is pushing to transfer authority over the system away from the council. The mayor cites staffing woes, a lack of training for police oversight board…

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Listening to the Gila

October 27, 2023
A river surrounded by trees and rocks.

10.27.23 – Rarely in the United States do we remember that rivers are living beings themselves—and they have something to teach us. With funding from The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder, Our Land’s Laura Paskus visited the Gila River, including a stretch that would have been changed forever if New Mexico had…

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