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Secretary Lynn Trujillo and Secretary James Kenney (2019-08-23)
About this film
This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Antonia Gonzales goes to Sandia Pueblo for an interview with Sec. Lynn Trujillo of the New Mexico Department of Indian Affairs. Trujillo talks about tribal priorities on the state level, including big changes to education. Correspondent Laura Paskus sits down with New Mexico Environment Department Sec. James Kenney to talk about PFAS, or toxic, human-made chemicals that have been found at U.S. military bases nationwide and around the world. Here in New Mexico, these chemicals have contaminated groundwater around Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases. Sec. Kenney discusses the danger of such contamination and what’s being done about it. 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 them for proof of citizenship. The Line also looks at the return of men’s soccer and men’s and women’s ski teams to UNM – but only as club sports. Gene Grant and panelists also talks about the push in New Mexico to legalize recreational cannabis, and how such legalization might affect patients who rely on me…
Directors & creators
KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, New Mexico in Focus, Lynn Trujillo, James Kenney, Gene Grant, Antonia Gonzales, Laura Paskus, Adrian Carver, Dede Feldman, Daniel Foley, Alan Webber, New Mexico Department of Indian Affairs, New Mexico Environment Department, Sandia Pueblo, Santa Fe Plaza, Cannon Air Force Base, Holloman Air Force Base, University of New Mexico, PFAS, groundwater contamination, tribal sovereignty, cannabis legalization, medical cannabis, open carry laws, gun rights, red flag laws, Native American education
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