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Homelessness in Santa Fe; Local Headlines in Focus

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This week on New Mexico in Focus, we catch up to some of the biggest recent headlines with the local journalists who broke and kept an eye on those stories.  Santa Fe New Mexican city reporter Carina Julig wrote a deep-dive series about Urban Alchemy’s first year running the capital city’s homeless shelter. Six months in, Urban Alchemy has spent nearly all of the $1.5 million allocated in its one-year…

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Reckoning with Forced Sterilization in New Mexico

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This week on New Mexico in Focus, KUNM’s Jeanette DeDios sits down with three state senators who kickstarted an investigation into the state’s long history of forced sterilization of Indigenous women and other women of color. Later, Jeanette asks the table how difficult it is for Native women to find a doctor in their community who specializes in reproductive health…

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