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NM Environment Secretary Advocates to Expand Use of Wastewater

By Myah Wilmarth | August 21, 2025

8.22.25 – Last month, state Environment Secretary James Kenney made a rare appearance at a meeting of the Water Quality Control Commission. Kenney advocated for…

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How Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Could Close Several Rural Hospitals

By Myah Wilmarth | August 21, 2025

8.22.25 – Senior Producer Lou DiVizio asks a former state senator and a leading expert on the state’s finances how Trump’s Medicaid cuts will impact…

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Rep. Leger Fernandez on Trump’s Medicaid Cuts

By Myah Wilmarth | August 21, 2025

8.22.25 – We return to our conversation with Host Nash Jones and Democratic U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, as the congresswoman talks about President Trump’s…

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How Tens of Thousands in NM Could Lose Medicaid Coverage

By Myah Wilmarth | August 21, 2025

8.22.25 – Senior Producer Lou DiVizio sits down for a discussion on Trump’s cuts to Medicaid with Legislative Finance Committee Director Charles Sallee and Democratic…

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Sara Kehaulani Goo on Hawai’i and New Book, “Kuleana…”

By Myah Wilmarth | August 15, 2025

8.15.25 – Journalist and media executive Sara Kehaulani Goo sits down with Correspondent Russell Contreras to discuss her new book, “Kuleana: A Story of Family,…

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Native Entrepreneurs are Changing Rez Life

By Myah Wilmarth | August 15, 2025

8.15.25 – For the latest edition of Indigenously Positive — our collaborative series with nonprofit news organization New Mexico In Depth — Correspondent Bella Davis…

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Rep. Leger Fernandez on ICE and Immigration Under Trump

By Myah Wilmarth | August 15, 2025

8.15.25 – Democratic U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez is back in New Mexico this month as Congress is on recess throughout the month of August.…

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State Education Dept Gets Feedback on Native Student Needs

By Myah Wilmarth | August 15, 2025

8.15.25 – Host Nash Jones heads to the Mescalero Apache Reservation for a community feedback meeting organized by the state Public Education Department. This is…

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Nonprofit Says Executive Order Will Widen Housing Gaps in NM

By Myah Wilmarth | August 8, 2025

8.8.25 – In July, Trump signed an executive order directing two federal agencies to shift their resources away from housing and instead towards forced mental…

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How the EPA’s Delay of Methane Regulations Would Spur Air Pollution

By Myah Wilmarth | August 8, 2025

8.8.25 – Camilla Feibelman, director of the local chapter of the Sierra Club, and Ben Shelton, deputy secretary of the state’s Energy, Minerals, and Natural…

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Journalist and Author’s New Book on Dangers of ‘Forever Chemicals’

By Myah Wilmarth | August 8, 2025

8.8.25 – Investigative journalist and author Mariah Blake has spent years reporting on the ways PFAS, commonly referred to as forever chemicals, have posed a…

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EPA Proposes Rolling Back Greenhouse Gas Regulations

By Myah Wilmarth | August 8, 2025

8.8.25 – Late last month, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed rescinding the “endangerment finding” — an Obama-era addition to the Federal Clean Air…