Plus, juvenile justice advocates talk extreme sentences for young
Navajo Nation pushes for radioactive waste remnants to be fully removed
The Northeast Church Rock Mine in October 2009.
A corporation is asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to transfer 1 million cubic yards of mine waste from the site of the biggest radioactive spill in U.S. history to a spot that's still near the Navajo Nation and people's homes. The Navajo Nation government is pushing back. Read more
(Photo from the U.S. EPA)
Juvenile justice advocates talk extreme sentences for young people
Carissa McGee, Albino Garcia and Eva Buchwald were some of the many participants in the virtual panel discussion "Beyond Orange: Finding Solutions for New Mexico’s Incarcerated Youth" on Thursday, Oct. 21.
A panel of experts convened to find solutions and action for reform for incarcerated young people in New Mexico.
"I started to build this false reality that if I make a mistake, that I didn’t even know I was making a true mistake, I’m going to be punished and it’s going to be a punishment far beyond what I could fathom."Read more— Carissa McGee
Community safety responders train for their first weeks in the field
A long-promised solution to poor interactions between police and nonviolent people launched in Albuquerque.Five responders are in the streets taking calls from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. So far, the ACS team has responded to more than 400 calls, according to Director Mariela Ruiz-Angel.
She said the program expects to have enough people trained to facilitate a 24/7 response by Summer 2022. Read more
Actors and trainees work through communication and de-escalation techniques on Thursday, Oct. 21, in Albuquerque’s City Hall.
(Photo by Shaun Griswold / Source NM)
Kids age 5 to 11 next in line for COVID-19 vaccines as White House rolls out plans
A teacher walks among the the masked students sitting in a socially distanced classroom session at Medora Elementary School on March 17, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Smaller needles. Redesigned shipments to ease the storage needs in pediatricians’ offices. And enough vials of the COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate the 28 million U.S. children between ages 5 and 11.
(Photo by Jon Cherry / Getty Images)
Those are among the plans announced by the White House on Wednesday as federal and state officials prepare for a regulatory decision to be made on the COVID-19 shot that Pfizer reformulated for younger children. Read more
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
New Mexico PBS to broadcast educational materials to 100 students’ computers
Datacasting transmits lessons and schoolwork to rural homes in a state ranked nearly last for broadband access
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.
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. Read more
(Photo courtesy of New Mexico PBS)
