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This week on New Mexico in Focus, we open our show with an issue we’ve been following over the past couple of years — the state’s nation-leading alcohol-related death rate. Senior Producer Lou DiVizio hosts two special roundtables to break down a new Common Cause New Mexico report that provides even more context on the issue and the Legislature’s decades of failures…

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we revisit some past stories. At the turn of the 20th century, Rebecca Clarren’s ancestors fled antisemitism in Russia to start new lives in America, where they became homesteaders on lands the U.S. government stole from the Lakota people. In her new book, “The Cost of Free Land:…