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Oppenheimer’s Legacy in New Mexico

August 4, 2023
An image of a large explosion in the sky.

NMiF Senior Producer Lou DiVizio opens the show with some headlines from the early part of the week, including progress for a group of New Mexicans fighting to receive compensation for the devastating impacts of nuclear testing beginning during the Manhattan Project. After the release of the film Oppenheimer, Gene Grant asks The Line Opinion…

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Is a Settlement on the Rio Grande Coming Soon?

August 3, 2023
An aerial view of a lake in the desert.

8.4.23 – After the relatively wet years of the 1980s and ‘90s, New Mexico’s reservoirs started dropping in the 2000s. In cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, two water districts — one in New Mexico and another in Texas — agreed in 2008 on new ways to share water stored in Elephant Butte Reservoir.…

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