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COVID-19 in Silver City
June 5, 2020 – Correspondent Laura Paskus continues her series of interviews with journalists around the state as they cover COVID-19 in their communities. Southwestern New Mexico’s Grant County has escaped large numbers of COVID-19 cases. But the state’s public health orders on social distancing and business closures stoked political controversy. One Silver City restaurant…
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June 5, 2020 – Nearly 40 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot in the 2020 primary election, the majority of them by mail. With 250,000 absentee ballots to count, some counties couldn’t report results on election night. Taos County had to ask a court for an extension after its poll workers got tired and…
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