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Back to School in COVID Times

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August 14, 2020 – August 12 was a back-to-school day unlike any other for APS students – and other kids around New Mexico. Gene Grant and The Line opinion panel discuss what the start of a new school year looks like for K-12 students, teachers, and staff during a pandemic. They also talk about the changes going on in higher education as the semester starts this month for universities and colleges. …

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Covering COVID-19 in the Carlsbad Area

CG illustration of a coronavirus.

August 7, 2020 – As part of an ongoing series of conversations with journalists covering COVID-19 in their communities, correspondent Laura Paskus talks to Jessica Onsurez, editor of the Carlsbad Current-Argus. Onsurez and her reporters are covering the virus in southeastern New Mexico, a part of the state where case prevalence continues to rise amid resistance to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s…

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