Episodes
Stansbury Takes Office, PFAS Accountability, and Blazing Spring Heat
This week on New Mexico in Focus, after testifying at a congressional hearing on PFAS last week, New Mexico Environment Secretary James Kenney joins the show to…
Read More...Future of our Forests, Growers’ Markets Adapt to COVID-19 and the Truth about UFOs
This week on New Mexico in Focus, Our Land returns to mark the ten-year anniversary of the Las Conchas Fire, which burned 156,000 acres of…
Read More...CD-1 Blowout, Vax Sweepstakes & ABQ’s Home for Life
This week on New Mexico in Focus, The Line opinion panel talks takeaways from the special election for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District. With the eyes…
Read More...The Public’s Money, Native Mental Health and Rio Grande Monitoring Cuts
This week on New Mexico in Focus, The Line opinion panel looks at recent outcomes for big ticket taxpayer items. This past weekend saw the long-awaited…
Read More...Tribes Sue Over Water Rule, Ben Ray Lujan
This week on New Mexico in Focus, Sen. Ben Ray Lujan joins the program from Washington, D.C. to talk about the federal government’s plans to…
Read More...CD1 Candidate Conversation and NM Republicans Head to Texas
This week on New Mexico in Focus, Libertarian congressional candidate Chris Manning speaks with producer Matt Grubs. The Libertarian Party selected the military veteran as their candidate…
Read More...MMIW Crisis Elevated, Key CD1 Candidates
This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Antonia Gonzales talks with two local advocates about the national attention given to the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis. President Biden…
Read More...Biden’s Tribal Affairs Adviser, NM’s population problems, and Civil Rights After Chauvin
This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Antonia Gonzales speaks with President Biden’s top tribal affairs adviser, PaaWee Rivera. The son of former Pojoaque Pueblo Governor George Rivera…
Read More...Governors on Cannabis Legalization, Earth Day & 2022 Gov’s Race
This week on New Mexico in Focus, the co-hosts of the NMPBS podcast Growing Forward speak with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham about New Mexico’s new recreational cannabis laws,…
Read More...COVID returns to school, a congressional special election and wrapping environmental legislation
On New Mexico in Focus… The once lively theaters of New Mexico have been quiet since last March. No performances. No ticket sales. No paychecks. There might yet…
Read More...Governor signs bills, NM vaccination plan, the changing Rio Grande
On New Mexico in Focus… The Line opinion panel zeroes in on the bills being signed (and not) by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. Friday marks the deadline…
Read More...Rise of Asian American Violence, UNMH Stroke Center & Media Diversity
On New Mexico in Focus… The Asian American community held a rally in downtown Albuquerque this week in response to an increase in violent and harassing incidents across the state. That…
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