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Transparency in State Government and Sexual Harassment in New Mexico Politics (2018-02-02)
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This week on New Mexico in Focus, host Gene Grant talks with Heath Haussamen of NMPolitics.net about the year’s 30-day legislative session and a bill that would allow greater secrecy for Spaceport America. Haussamen, who published an investigative series about the spaceport last year, discusses that bill and other transparency issues in state government. In New Mexico and around the country, women are speaking up about sexual harassment at work. Are men in power doing enough to address these issues, particularly in the roundhouse? Two women who have publicly shared how men have treated them in their work in campaigns and the legislature join Gene Grant to address this issue. Gene and the Line opinion panelists also look at the problem of “in-house parole,” where corrections officials hold inmates in prison for all or part of their parole terms. They also debate lawmakers’ plans to disperse the almost $300 million in “new money” in the state’s budget this year and examine a proposal to revamp the selection process for university regents. Guests: Gene Grant (Host), Vanessa Alarid (Alarid Consulting, LLC), Heather Brewer (HB Strategies), and Heath Haussamen (NMPolitics.net). Line Pane…
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KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.)
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public broadcasting, AAPB, New Mexico in Focus, Gene Grant, Heath Haussamen, Vanessa Alarid, Heather Brewer, Dan Foley, Mary Hudetz, Sophie Martin, H. Diane Snyder, Jolene Valencia, NMPolitics.net, Associated Press, New Mexico Corrections Department, Spaceport America, New Mexico Legislature, parole system, sexual harassment, mandatory sentencing, prison reform, state budget
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