Episodes
Election Night Reaction, Gun Ban at the State Capitol & Student Action on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
This week on New Mexico in Focus, historic turnout across New Mexico led to some eye-opening results on election night. Gene Grant breaks down the…
Read More...Potential PNM Merger Partner Avangrid’s Track Record, Film Set Tragedy & Downtown ABQ Stadium Opinions
This week on New Mexico in Focus, customers are facing some potentially big changes when it comes to the state’s electrical utility, thanks to a proposed merger between PNM…
Read More...Good Neighbors, Redistricting Committee Approves Maps & Author William deBuys
This week on New Mexico in Focus, the Citizen Redistricting Committee has wrapped up it’s work, approving a series of map proposals for redrawing election districts for the…
Read More...The Campaign Money Game, IATSE Strike Looms, and Our Land
This week on New Mexico in Focus, The Line opinion panel breaks down the latest campaign finance numbers in the governor’s race. While the general election…
Read More...The Albuquerque Mayoral Forum, presented by the New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative
This week on New Mexico in Focus, as voting begins in local elections across the state, NMiF teams with the New Mexico Black Voters Collaborative to present a…
Read More...Ballooning Safety, Albuquerque’s Race for Mayor and a Mystery for NM Schools
This week on New Mexico in Focus, as the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta opens this month, the National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate a fatal balloon…
Read More...Drought and Agriculture, a Native Voice in Fashion & Redistricting Progress
This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Antonia Gonzales speaks with Native fashion model Quannah Chasinghorse (Han Gwich’in Sicangu/Oglala Lakota) about her recent turn on the red…
Read More...Working the Fire Lines, Cannabis Industry Equality, and Policing Changes
This week on New Mexico in Focus, as the nation’s wildlands burn with increasing intensity, fires are taking a bigger toll on the men and women…
Read More...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,…
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