Episodes
Election Recap and Money in Politics
This week on New Mexico in Focus… NMiF producer Matt Grubs talks with Kathleen Sabo, the executive director of New Mexico Ethics Watch, about how…
Read More...Election Preps and Unchecked COVID Spread
This week on New Mexico in Focus… NMiF producer Matt Grubs talks with reporters across the state to discuss important issues in their areas before…
Read More...COVID Updates, Senate Debate Highlights, Handling Absentee Ballots, and Facing Death
This week on New Mexico in Focus… Correspondent Megan Kamerick interviews end-of-life planner Gail Rubin, who is the coordinator of the upcoming Before I Die…
Read More...NM’s COVID-19 Spike, an In-Depth Look at Monuments, Statues and Conquistadors
This week on New Mexico in Focus… Correspondent Russell Contreras speaks with Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, a New Mexico native who is now an assistant professor at Arizona State.…
Read More...New Mexico’s Top Political Races, COVID Updates, and a Drying Rio Grande, plus Our Land: Urban Forests
This week, New Mexico in Focus previews conversations with Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small and her two-time Republican opponent in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District, Yvette…
Read More...Land Management, 2020 Census, and Policing Changes in New Mexico, plus DACA and the DREAM Act
William Perry Pendley has served the U.S. Bureau of Land Management under President Trump and is now deputy director for policy and programs. He visited…
Read More...Special: Policing in 2020 and Beyond
This week features a New Mexico in Focus Special: Policing in 2020 and Beyond. New Mexico is dealing with difficult times, from economic struggles, to…
Read More...Reverend William Barber II, Birds Dying Mystery & Students Return to the Classroom
Correspondent and environmental journalist Laura Paskus follows up on a story by Algernon D’Ammassa of the Las Cruces Sun-News that reported people were finding dead migratory birds…
Read More...Redistricting, 2020 Elections, and Our Land: Native Voices on Water Issues
Correspondent Gwyneth Doland takes an in-depth look at redistricting as she talks with Lilly Irvin-Vitela of New Mexico First and Rob Black of the New…
Read More...COVID and Labor Day, Climate Change, and Political and Racial Tensions
Dr. David Scrase, cabinet secretary for the Human Services Department, knows that as the Labor Day weekend approaches, New Mexicans will want to gather and…
Read More...Conventions and Campaigns, Restaurant Reopenings and a New Normal for Fire Season
Reports of missing mail collection boxes around the country have prompted an Albuquerque-based software designer to help develop an application that uses communities to keep…
Read More...Voting and the U.S. Mail, La Jornada Controversy, Virtual Life During COVID
As the nation celebrates the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote, Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and Valencia County Peggy Carabajal are…
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