YOUR NM GOV: With the legislative session heading into the final lap, it is important that you know what is going on at the Roundhouse. Your New Mexico Government is where you can find daily updates on all the news coming out of Santa Fe. Look for No More Normal on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to get those daily updates. This week, we ll hear from Gwyneth Doland for New Mexico PBS about all the redistricting drama.
NEXT WEEK: This time last year was our last time doing our normal routines. In N.M., March 15 is about the one-year anniversary of the quarantine. So let s look at the year in review. So many questions have developed in the last year. We talk with you to see if anyone has an answer.
It's the return of our Old-School Shoutout Show on Episode 21. The first one, we did back in May. Now, as the pandemic wears on, we wanted to hear from
Our democracy is being tested right now. It is not the first time. But it feels like a tipping point, and our very lives are in the balance. Can we find truth? Will we come to a place of peace? Can we resolve not to look the other way when the view is uncomfortable? Will those who stormed the Capitol, who aided and abetted seditionists, and who proliferated racism and dangerous lies, face punishment? Episode 18 is all about the fallout.
Dear President Biden and Vice President Harris,
First, let us offer our congratulations on taking office. Not only did you both campaign arduously and effectively to be nominated and subsequently win the election, to keep it real, it was looking kinda dicey there a couple of weeks ago. Yet the process of our democracy prevailed even though it was surrounded by armed troops this time.
NEXT WEEK: Our democracy is being tested right now. It is not the first time. But it feels like a tipping point, and our very lives are in the balance. Can we find truth? Will we come to a place of peace? Can we resolve not to look the other way when the view is uncomfortable? Will those who stormed the Capitol, who aided and abetted seditionists, and who proliferated dangerous lies, face punishment? Find out with us next week on No More Normal. It’s all about consequences.
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Sharon Chischilly, news photographer and rising star, for the image for this week s episode
In 2019, New Mexico lost 515 people to suicide, according to research by the Legislative Finance Committee released this month. And while preliminary data showed no statistical increase in suicides from January through October of 2020, the state has seen an increase in calls to its crisis phone line. The LFC also projects a 20 percent increase in behavioral health needs next year. Suicide does not have one cause, according to Matthew Probst, medical director for El Centro Family Health. But he said some form of trauma is typically involved whenever someone attempts to kill themselves. “That’s what it comes down to. Depression comes from a root of educational disparity, economic disparity, substance misuse in the house, violence (or) sexual abuse,” Probst said. “All of those things are the common roots of addiction, suicide, all kinds of stuff.”