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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Our Land: PFAS on the Farm, Biden’s COVID Supply Manager, and Back to School Again | 3.12.21
Description: This week on New Mexico in Focus, The Line opinion panel addresses Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s decision to open New Mexico to full-time, in-person learning by April 5. Largely a local-control matter, the request nevertheless has the attention of school districts, which seem anxious to comply with the request. The panel looks at the role of unions in the return to school, as well as the matter of vaccinating newly prioritized educators, despite no additional vaccine allocations from the federal government.Â
The Line also examines Mayor Tim Keller’s appointment of interim Chief Harold Medina to a permanent p...