Your New Mexico Government
by Kaveh Mowahed
The Your New Mexico Government podcast is a public service and part of our Your New Mexico Government project, a collaboration between KUNM radio and New Mexico PBS. YNMG is focused on covering issues of good government, including transparency and accountability. Support for public media is provided by the Thornburg Foundation.
Episodes
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2022 Session - Ep.13, A Roundhouse Roundtable
This is episode 13 of this year’s #YNMG, and it’s a wrap-up show. We hosted a reporters’ roundtable earlier this week on Facebook Live and put the video up on the KUNM and New Mexico In Focus Facebook pages, but we realize not everyone engages with Facebook so we’re giving you the audio here as a...
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2022 Session - We'll Wrap It Up, On Facebook Live
The session ended about a week ago. Now that we’ve had some time to catch our breath, take a nap, and really assess what was accomplished, we’re going to do a live wrap-up show. And you’re invited to join us and to contribute comments or questions.On Monday, February 28th, join #YNMG for a…
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2022 Session - Ep. 12, Mitigating the Danger
On this #YNMG we’re dedicating the entire episode to one piece of legislation that is now on Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s desk waiting for her signature. House Bill 52 is an amendment to the Harm Reduction Act. Overdoses from Fentanyl are the top killer of young adults in New Mexico, but…
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2022 Session - Ep. 11, Is There a Nurse in the House?
Though it may not always be front of mind for many of us anymore, we are still living in a pandemic where many people are still getting sick, being hospitalized, and sometimes dying. That has put an incredible strain on our healthcare and public health systems - and the people who work in those...
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2022 Session - Ep.10, Tough on Crime in an Election Year
There are only a few days left in this 30-day legislative session and it’s starting to feel like a lot is getting done. We are close to a final budget, education and voting bills are moving forward and there has been a lot of movement on anti-crime bills. Crime is up nationwide and we are…
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2022 Session - Ep. 9, A Failure to Communicate
Our state is home to quite a few under-served and underrepresented communities, like our 23 Indigenous tribes and our sizable immigrant communities. Their neighborhoods tend to not get the resources they need to keep up with infrastructure, or to fund the public services most of us take for...
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2022 Session - Ep. 8, What Color is Hydrogen?
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has been selling a plan for the last several months to make New Mexico into a hydrogen energy hub. Her idea is that we can transform our economy, based primarily on natural resource extraction, into one that is more renewable – but there is some controversy. On…
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2022 Session - Ep. 7, The Lenders of Last Resort
We have ten days left in this legislative session. This is the point where everything starts moving very quickly - almost frantically - so lawmakers can get to all of the bills they care about before time runs out. On today's #YNMG we’re going to focus on House Bill 132, a bill that would limit...
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2022 Session - Ep.6, Who's Watching Whom
This week we felt the action at the Roundhouse pick up speed, and there were some shake-ups that threw journalists and the public off balance. So #YNMG is taking the opportunity to focus on access and transparency. Monday, was supposed to have a hearing for Senate Bill 8, but that got pushed to...
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2022 Session - Ep. 5, Who Gets a Vote
Amid a national conversation about voting rights, we’ve seen efforts to restrict access to the ballot in other states and two federal voting rights bills stalled in the United States Congress. On this episode of #YNMG we'll cover New Mexico's Senate Bill 8, the New Mexico Voting Rights Act, which...
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2022 Session - Ep. 4, Education and the Halfway Point
We’re at the halfway point of the session, this time talking with reporter Shaun Griswold from Source New Mexico on #YNMG. Source NM has had journalists at the Roundhouse throughout the session watching crime, energy, pandemic relief, and more. Griswold has covered different areas too, but…
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2022 Session - Ep. 3, Housing and the Unhoused
From helping people who are unhoused to addressing the lack of affordable homes in New Mexico, we have a serious problem with no easy or quick solution. There are some lawmakers who are trying to help though. On the latest from #YNMG we'll discuss some of the bills that have been filed to help…
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2022 Session - Ep. 2, Critical Race Theory Goes New Mexican
Today we’ll take our first dive into education in this legislative session - and it’s a doozy. But we don’t shy away from controversy on #YNMG; we dig into it. School boards around the country have been among the new cultural battlegrounds where parents with differing political views fight for...
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2022 Session - Ep. 1, The Executive and the Legislature
This is the introduction to the latest from the "Your New Mexico Government" podcast. Over the next four weeks we’ll check in with journalists, lawmakers, and other stakeholders about what’s going on in our state capital during the 2022 legislative session and we invite you to join us.
About this show
The Your New Mexico Government podcast is a public service and part of our Your New Mexico Government project, a collaboration between KUNM radio and New Mexico PBS. YNMG is focused on covering issues of good government, including transparency and accountability. Support for public media is provided by the Thornburg Foundation.
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Kaveh Mowahed
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