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August 23, 2019 – Gene Grant and The Line opinion panel discuss the growing concern over a man who, while legally carrying a gun on his hip, has been harassing vendors and others on the Santa Fe Plaza, including asking … Continue reading The Line: Man with Gun Verbally Harassing People on Santa Fe Plaza
August 23, 2019 – Two interesting announcements about New Mexico’s flagship university came in the news this week. A grand jury indicted former UNM Athletic Director Paul Krebs on seven felony counts in connection with a 2015 golf trip to … Continue reading The Line: UNM Athletics Back in the News
August 23, 2019 – Gene Grant and The Line panelists talk about the push in New Mexico to legalize recreational cannabis, and how such legalization might affect patients who rely on medical cannabis. Line Panelists: Adrian Carver, executive director, Equality … Continue reading The Line: Cannabis Legalization Task Force Meets
August 16, 2019 – Gene Grant and The Line opinion panelists examine the state’s choice to deny requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for unrestricted access to New Mexico workforce records. Line Panelists: Merritt Allen, Vox Optima Tom Garrity, … Continue reading The Line: New Mexico Says No to ICE Requests for Data
August 16, 2019 – Gene Grant and The Line opinion panel look at the possibility of reshaping New Mexico’s Public Regulation Commission, currently an elected body that regulates utilities, telecommunications, and motor carrier industries. The governor and other state leaders … Continue reading The Line: Rethinking the Public Regulation Commission
August 16, 2019 – Gene Grant and The Line opinion panelists debate the prospects of Ryan Stewart as secretary-designate of New Mexico’s Public Education Department. Gov. Lujan Grisham introduced Stewart on the first day of the new school year for … Continue reading The Line: Governor Chooses New Secretary for Public Education
August 9, 2019 – Gene Grant and The Line opinion panelists examine the disproportionately high rate of opioids dispensed by one drugstore in Española from 2006 to 2012. Opioid prescription rates have dropped since then, but The Line questions whether … Continue reading The Line: Monitoring Prescription Pain Medicine
August 9, 2019 – Gene Grant and The Line opinion panelists discuss transparency in matters concerning the Department of Public Safety under the state’s former and current administrations. They consider certain policies that require “sunshine” no matter what administration happens … Continue reading The Line: Transparency Promises Don’t Always Equal Delivery
August 9, 2019 – Gene Grant and The Line opinion panelists look at the sickening wave of mass shootings in El Paso, Dayton and elsewhere. They debate whether calling out domestic terrorism will force a change in the conversation. The … Continue reading The Line: Mass Shootings Hit Home
August 2, 2019 – According to Jens Erik Gould, a reporter with the Santa Fe New Mexican, most asylum-seekers at the border will not qualify. Yet migrants still stream through the border, as the Trump administration crafts a deal with … Continue reading The Line: Border Update