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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: NM Gov. Slashes Tax Package, ABQ Police Staffing & Martha Burk's Historic Protest 20 Years Later
Description: NMiF Senior Producer Lou DiVizio introduces the show this week with a recap Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham's decisions on proposed legislation from the Roundhouse. The Governor made some serious changes to HB 547, what had been a wide-ranging tax passage. After the Governor's line item vetoes, the package was pared down to a $500 per-person tax rebate, an expansion to the stateβs child tax credit and film tax credit programs, and a gross receipts tax deduction β specifically for health care practitioners.
Then, Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus speaks with Jerry Redfern, reporter at Capital and Main about some recent meth...