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Tribes, Power, and Water
Sept. 11, 2020 – In the western United States, rivers like the Colorado River and the Rio Grande were carved up under compacts in the…
Laura Paskus Writes About Climate Change in New Mexico
August 28, 2020 – Our Land producer and NMiF correspondent Laura Paskus has authored a new book. At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate looks…
Bracing for Eviction Increase
August 28, 2020 – Evictions based on a temporary inability to pay rent are in no one’s best interest. During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, many…
Online Indian Market
August 14, 2020 – COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the economy across New Mexico, including on tourism and the arts in tribal communities. Many Native artists…
All We’ve Surveyed: Five Years After the Gold King Mine Spill
By Laura Paskus Five years ago, crews reopening an abandoned mine in the mountains of southern Colorado breached a containment wall, spewing three million gallons…
The Governor on Bringing New Mexicans Through COVID Crisis
August 7, 2020 – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has been shepherding New Mexico through the COVID-19 crisis since the first case hit the state in March. NMiF producer Matt Grubs talks to…
COVID-19 Survivor Tells Her Story
July 24, 2020 – While most people who contract COVID-19 have mild or no symptoms, others are taken to hospitals for life-threatening situations. NMIF correspondent…
The New Mexico GOP on COVID-19
July 17, 2020 – Senior producer Matt Grubs talks to former U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, who now chairs the New Mexico Republican Party. The GOP…
Third Anniversary Interview and Our Land: Gila Diversion Decision
July 10, 2020 – NMiF host Gene Grant celebrates the third anniversary of the show’s monthly series Our Land with environmental journalist Laura Paskus, who talks about the state’s outlook…
PED’s Return-to-School Plan
July 10, 2020 – Host Gene Grant talked with Albuquerque Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein on Facebook Live earlier this week. The ATF is Albuquerque’s largest teachers’ union, and its members…
Elizabeth Groginsky, New Early Childhood Education Cabinet Secretary
June 26, 2020 – Correspondent Russell Contreras talks with Elizabeth Groginsky, the first secretary of New Mexico’s newly minted Early Childhood Education and Care Department,…
Mark Kennedy Shriver on Early Childhood Development
June 19, 2020 – Childhood disparities around malnutrition, graduation rates, and early deaths are worst among rural, black-majority counties in the American South and isolated…