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Census Field Piece, Our Land (Rio Restoration), Flamenco
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This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Gwyneth Doland travels to Valencia County, where local planners are reaching out to community leaders in hard-to-count neighborhoods a year ahead of the census count. Millions of dollars in federal funding are at stake if key communities aren’t appropriately measured, and fears about immigration status will have an impact. On this month’s installment of Our Land, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus visits the Rio Grande in Albuquerque and a habitat restoration site near Socorro to look at new ways of managing New Mexico’s largest river that will restore some of the benefits of historic floods. NMiF photojournalist Robert McDermott presents a preview of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, now in its 32nd year of presenting local and international artists of this fiery dance form. Hosst Gene Grant and the Line opinion panel discuss the expanded list of qualifying conditions–including opioid use disorder–for the state’s medical cannabis program. The Line panel also discusses a lawsuit filed this week by the State of New Mexico and the City of Albuquerque against the Trump Administration, seeking reinstatement of its “safe release” polic…
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KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.)
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public broadcasting, AAPB, New Mexico in Focus, Gwyneth Doland, Laura Paskus, Robert McDermott, Gene Grant, Andy Lyman, Tom Garrity, Ed Parness, Martha Burke, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Valencia County, New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rio Grande, 2020 United States Census, Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, Medical cannabis, Opioid use disorder, Albuquerque Public Schools, Lead contamination, Asylum seekers, Trump administration
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