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ABQ’s ‘Sidewalk Law;’ Safe Routes to School

A city street with cars stopped at a red traffic light under a partly cloudy sky, with shops and trees lining both sides of the road.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we home in on the City of Albuquerque’s controversial new “Enhanced Services and Safety Zone Ordinance,” more commonly known as the “sidewalk law.” Tiffany Leger, founder of the Albuquerque Homeless Union, tells Host Nash Jones it’s just another way to criminalize and punish unhoused people. Then, Nash sits…

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Wastewater and Water Rights in NM

A mostly dry riverbed with patches of water winds through a green landscape under a blue sky with clouds and distant mountains.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we revisit several previously aired stories about water in New Mexico.   Earlier this year, the Water Quality Control Commission decided to revisit how and where fracking wastewater can be used in New Mexico. We hear from advocates for and against the proposal. In June, Capital and Main journalist…

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