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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: NM's Behavioral Health Shortcomings, COVID-19 Boosters & Reaction to the End of the Prescribed Burn Ban
Description: Host Lou DiVizio runs through the top state headlines, including news that lawmakers plan to take up alcohol taxes in the upcoming 2023 session.
Then, Gene Grant talks through the U.S. Forest Service's decision to end a ban on prescribed burns. Gene and the Line Opinion Panel debate if this is the right time and if new precautions are enough to prevent another catastrophe like the Hermit's Peak Calf Canyon Fire.
Gene and the panel also discuss a report from the Legislative Finance Committee that shows New Mexico is lagging on behavioral health outcomes, despite...