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How Trump’s Cuts Could Hit NM

April 25, 2025
Two people sit at a round table with coffee mugs and notes, facing the camera in a television studio with blue screens and studio equipment in the background.

4.25.25 – Correspondent Gwyneth Doland asks Michael O’Donnell, director of UNM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research, how President Trump’s cuts to federal programs will make their mark in our state.  Correspondent: Gwyneth Doland  Guest: Michael O’Donnell, Director, University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research 

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The Real Crime

October 19, 2020
An illustration of Breonna Taylor, with white roses crowning her and a label "JUSTICE".

Attack ads and contemporary political rhetoric about crime have a disturbing campaign ancestor: The Willie Horton ad that may have cost Michael Dukakis the presidential election in 1988. It relied on racism for its efficacy, and it ushered in an era of so-called “tough-on-crime” laws and posturing that nearly broke criminal legal systems, like the…

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