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This week on New Mexico in Focus<\/i>, correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with the candidates in district 3 and district 5 in this year\u2019s city council races in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n

And producer Sarah Gustavus talks with Dr. Richard Wood from UNM about faith leaders who are speaking out about race and equality across the country.<\/p>\n

NMiF<\/i> host Gene Grant and the Line panelists take on some of the top stories in news headlines this week, including what New Mexico\u2019s education plan, newly approved by the U.S. Education Department, will mean for the state\u2019s schools. They also discuss a judge\u2019s ruling that ten of Governor Susana Martinez\u2019s vetoes from this year\u2019s legislative session were invalid, and look at New Mexico\u2019s reactions to the racial violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia.<\/p>\n

Host:
<\/b>Gene Grant<\/p>\n

Correspondents:
<\/b>Sarah Gustavus
Megan Kamerick<\/p>\n

Studio Guests:
<\/b>Klarissa Pe\u00f1a, District 3 Candidate (Incumbent)
Christopher Sedillo, District 3 Candidate
Robert J. Aragon, District 5 Candidate
Cynthia Borrego, District 5 Candidate
Catherine Trujillo, District 5 Candidate
Richard L. Wood, professor, UNM Department of Sociology<\/a><\/p>\n

Line Panelists:<\/b> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Merritt Allen, Vox Optima LLC
Laura Sanchez-Riv\u00e9t, attorney at Cuddy and McCarthy, LLP
H. Diane Snyder, former state senator
Harry Van Buren, professor in UNM Anderson School of Management<\/a><\/p>\n

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