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Redistricting, 2020 Elections, and Our Land: Native Voices on Water Issues

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This week on New Mexico in Focus: Correspondent Gwyneth Doland takes an in-depth look at redistricting as she talks with Lilly Irvin-Vitela of New Mexico First and Rob Black of the New Mexico Association of Commerce and Industry about how a citizen’s task force is working to redraw district maps to shift power into voters’…

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COVID and Labor Day, Climate Change, and Political and Racial Tensions

Illustration of a coronavirus superimposed over a Zia sun symbol.

Dr. David Scrase, cabinet secretary for the Human Services Department, knows that as the Labor Day weekend approaches, New Mexicans will want to gather and may be tempted to flout public health rules on masking and social distancing. NMiF producer Matt Grubs talks to Scrase about what he and the pandemic response team are doing…

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