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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Indoor Mask Mandate Ends, Pastoral Letter Calls For Nuclear Disarmament & PNM Plan to Avoid Blackouts | 2.25.22
Description: The Line Opinion Panel reacts to Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s decision to end the statewide indoor mask mandate. State Health Secretary Dr. David Scrase cites a significant drop in cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19. Panelists try to understand the rationale and discuss the burden school districts must now carry.
Correspondent Megan Kamerick speaks with the Archbishop of Santa Fe about his recent pastoral letter, calling for international nuclear disarmament. Archbishop John C. Wester explains his stance, while noting the presence of two federal nuclear weapons laboratories here in New Mexico.
New Mexico’s larg...