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Public Employee Shortage in NM & Indigenous Leaders React to Española Shooting
This week on New Mexico in Focus, KUNM reporter and first-time In Focus correspondent Nash Jones sits down with a special roundtable to discuss why government agencies continue to struggle with hiring and retaining employees in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first of two conversations, Jones asks the panelists to identify the scope of the employment problem…
Read MoreNM Attorney General Explains Desire to Take Over Yazzie-Martinez Case & Gallup-McKinley County Schools Investigation
This week on New Mexico in Focus, Attorney General Raúl Torrez explains two recent decisions involving education in our state. In partnership with New Mexico In Depth, Executive Director Trip Jennings asks Torrez about his intention to take over litigation in the Yazzie-Martinez case. Then, Jennings discusses a recent announcement from the attorney general that his office…
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