New Mexico PBS to transmit educational materials to 100 students’ computers
The main tower for New Mexico PBS on Sandia Peak. It feeds around 35-40 translators around the state that will repeat this signal carrying datacasting out to New Mexico’s most rural communities and homes.
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Five New Mexico school districts will take part in a pilot program testing a technology that transmits school work to students' homes via their television. Transmitters the size of a playing card deck will be sent to 100 families in the districts chosen to test the program in a state ranked nearly last for broadband connectivity.
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Head into the voting booth prepared about bonds
We’ve got info about what you’ll see on your ballot that isn’t a politician
With the bonds proposed for Albuquerque, public transportation would receive $1.1 million, a pretty small portion of the nearly $184 million being proposed overall.
(Photo by Shelby Kleinhans for Source NM)
Do you like schools? Libraries? Safe roads and bridges maybe? Bonds might be on your ballot this year. We've got a practical breakdown of what that money would go to statewide and how much the bonds will cost taxpayers.
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Feds OK ‘mix-and-match’ approach for COVID-19 booster shots
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given a green light to Americans who want to receive a booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by a different company than the one that produced the initial shot they received.
The announcement Wednesday on allowing “mix-and-match” shots from different manufacturers will give more flexibility to state and local officials overseeing vaccination campaigns and to providers administering shots. Read more
Health care worker with a tray of COVID-19 vaccine vials. (Getty Images)
US Senate Republicans again block debate on voting rights legislation
US Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) speak to the media following a U.S. Senate Rules Committee Georgia Field Hearing on the right to vote at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights on July 19, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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U.S. Senate Republicans blocked the advance of voting rights legislation Wednesday, the second time this year—thwarting again Democrats’ attempts to pass federal protections for voters amid a slew of new state elections laws.
Nineteen states have approved more stringent voting requirements this year, with many GOP legislators leaning on unsubstantiated claims of 2020 elections fraud. Read more
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Bringing more attention to missing and murdered Indigenous relatives
Family members, legal experts and law enforcement talk about the ongoing crisis on KUNM this morning at 8 a.m.
Anita King, the mother of Pepita Redhair, thanks the crowd for coming out in support of her missing daughter and others like her at the MMIW rally at Tiguex Park on Oct. 3.
(Photo by Shelby Kleinhans for Source NM)
“One day she didn't call,” Pepita Redhair’s sister Shelda Livingston said. “She always calls home and says, ‘Hey, I'm gonna do this today. I'm gonna go here. Shall we send photos of what we’re gonna do?’ And then we didn't hear from her for two days. That's not like her. So that's how we got worried.”
That concern is commonplace for many Native American families who live with the reality that their family member may go missing or may be killed, and they might not ever know what happened. It's possible no one will look very hard into the case. There might never be justice. And the person they love might never be seen again. Read more
