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AG Torrez on Western New Mexico University Mess & 2025 Legislature Preview

January 16, 2025

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Politics Correspondent Gwyneth Doland interviews three journalists to preview the 2025 legislative session, which begins next week in…

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Outgoing U.S. Attorney for NM Looks Back

January 9, 2025

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor interviews U.S. Attorney Alexander Uballez during what will likely be his last days on…

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2024 Rewind: APD DWI Corruption Case; Juneteenth

December 27, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we return to some of our favorite stories from 2024.   In this interview that first ran in March,…

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Indian Boarding Schools; Sit-in for Reading

December 20, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Antonia Gonzales speaks with two New Mexicans about their thoughts and emotions after President Joe Biden’s formal apology…

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Immigrant Protections in a Second Trump Term

December 4, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor sits down with Sophia Genovese, an attorney with the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center.…

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How Trump 2.0 Will Impact Indigenous Communities

November 27, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Lou Divizio and journalist Shaun Griswold consider what’s next for Indigenous communities as the nation braces…

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Environment Laws, Civil Rights in Next Trump Term

November 22, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor speaks with the legal and policy directors from the ACLU of New Mexico about…

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AI Regs; Indigenous Long View Post-Election

November 15, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, KUNM’s Megan Kamerick speaks with two computer science experts about their work pushing elected officials to create privacy…

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How NM Voted in the 2024 General Election

November 8, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we break down this year’s general election results. Senior Producer Lou DiVizio goes over the state’s congressional contests…

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Election ‘24 NM Candidate Conversations

October 29, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we wrap up our candidate conversations with two congressional incumbents and two Republican challengers. Correspondent Russell Contreras asks…

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Project 2025 and NM; Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez

October 24, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, two longtime politics watchers break down how the policies recommended in Project 2025 could shape the lives of…

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Sen. Martin Heinrich; Native Voices on Election

October 18, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we begin our 2024 election interviews with U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. Politics correspondent Gwyneth Doland asks about…

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