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We have election results for Paonia, Hotchkiss, Cedaredge, Montrose, Palisade, and Ridgway. Plus, Kate Redmond reports access to labor and employment standards can be inconsistent for guest workers coming to the U.S. to do farm and ranch work. A local advocacy organization, Hispanic Affairs Project, is making great strides to remedy that.

New Mexico Trying To Organize Broadband Efforts - By Cedar Attanasio Associated Press The New Mexico Legislature is considering a bill that would consolidate the efforts of multiple state agencies to expand high-speed internet. The effort comes a year into the pandemic that has pushed education and health care online, eroding residents access to public services proportional to how far they are from an internet connection. "We watched the collapse of our educational system during the COVID, and...