Episodes
Downwinders, Down Time for Virgin Galactic, and Our Land’s Dark Skies
This week on New Mexico in Focus, the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium has been trying for years to get the U.S. government to compensate families who were…
Read More...Sunny Budget Forecast as Unemployment Boost Expires, and Afghanistan Perspectives
This week, New Mexico in Focus searches for perspective on the end of the war in Afghanistan and the resulting humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands of…
Read More...More Pandemic Pushback for MLG and Afghans Come to New Mexico
This week on New Mexico in Focus, fleeing Taliban rule, Afghans who were able to leave their homeland are now arriving in the U.S., including…
Read More...Mask Mandate Redux, Crime Trends, and Local Weathercasters Tackle Climate Change
This week on New Mexico in Focus, the nearly unrestrained rise in COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated people has led to the return of a mask mandate,…
Read More...Delta Pinches Hospitals, CYFD Shakeup, and Climate Change & Extreme Weather
This week on New Mexico in Focus, The Delta variant of the novel coronavirus is putting new pressure on hospitals across New Mexico. We’ll get…
Read More...Delta Blues, Toxins and Firefighters, Congressional Update
This week on New Mexico in Focus, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus speaks with a former U.S. Air Force firefighter who served at Cannon Air Force Base in…
Read More...Masks are Back, Albuquerque’s Soccer Pitch, Native Boarding Schools
This week on New Mexico in Focus, extended coverage of the federal government’s effort to document the truth about Native boarding schools. Interior secretary and…
Read More...Restaurant Dynamics, Covering PFAS Contamination & Drunk Driving Liability
This week on New Mexico in Focus, The Line opinion roundtable offers reactions and insight on the New Mexico Supreme Court’s recent decision that gas…
Read More...Branson Blasts Off, Dow Enters Gov Race and Education on the Navajo Nation
This week on New Mexico in Focus, the state is aflutter with news of the first fully crewed Virgin Galactic flight from Spaceport America. Sir Richard Branson’s…
Read More...Photographing the Border, Reflecting on New Mexican Colonialism, Protecting Forests Against Wildfires
This week on New Mexico in Focus, an inside look at the faces and stories behind our crisis on the U.S./Mexico border. Correspondent Laura Paskus…
Read More...What’s Next for Legal Cannabis, CYFD Troubles and Historical Astronomy
This week, New Mexico in Focus continues its in-depth look at the state’s newly legal recreational cannabis industry. While June 29 marked the day the law went…
Read More...Pandemic Reopening, New Cannabis Law and Living on ‘Chile Street’
This week on New Mexico in Focus, The Line opinion panel assembles virtually to discuss the state’s full reopening, scheduled for July 1. The group also discusses New…
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