NMiF discusses drought and agriculture, Native voice in fashion & redistricting progress

This week on New Mexico in Focus correspondent Antonia Gonzales speaks with Native style mannequin Quannah Chasinghorse (Han Gwich’in Sicangu/Oglala Lakota) about her current Activate the purple carpet for the Met Gala and about strolling in Ny Fashion Week. The 19-yr-previous has been A local advocate and environmental activist As prolonged as she’s been a mannequin. Now, with A a lot greater stage, Chasinghorse sees An alternative to amplify her message. 

A protracted drought throughout the West has hit New Mexico ranchers and farmers partworkicularly exhausting. Environment correspondent Laura Paskus talks with Agriculture Secretary Jeff Witte about how the state’s growers are responding. A pivot to extra water-sensible insurance coverage policies and crops is already occurring, however Witte expects new conduct by consumers to play A critical position in What’s grown in New Mexico. 

With Balloon Fiesta quickly To paint the pre-daybreak round Albuquerque, The road opinion panel talks Regarding the pageant’s choice to forgo a vaccine requirement – and what It’d imply for completely different primary occasions. The group additionally discusses the final weeks of the state’s purpleistricting plan, which kicked into extreme gear with The discharge of proposed revisions to political boundaries. The panel begins the current with a dialogue about how the Texas abortion regulation is impacting New Mexico And the method the state’s politicians and docs are responding. 

New Mexico in Focus airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) Friday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 26 at 7 a.m., and streaming on the PBS video app.  

NMiF Half
Native American Fashion Takes Center Stage 
Correspondent
Antonia Gonzales 

Visitor
Quannah Chasinghorse, style mannequin 

Agriculture and Drought 
Correspondent 
Laura Paskus, environment correspondent  

Visitor
Jeff Witte, New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture 

The road opinion panel
Serge Martworkinez, UNM Law School 
Tom Garrity, The Garrity Group 
Martworkha Burk, political psychologist and author of “Your Voice, Your Vote” 

Host
Gene Grant 

New Mexico in Focus is The mannequin new Mexico PBS prime-time information journal current overlaying the occasions, factors, And completely different people That are shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layepurple Take A look at social, political, financial well being, education, and artwork factors, and explores them in-depth with a essential eye To current them context past the “information of the second.” 

The producer Of latest Mexico in Focus is Matt Grubs, with Kathy Wimmer, affiliate producer. The NM PBS Public Affairs authorities producer is Kevin McDonald. 

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