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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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Money in Politics & Reimagining Columbus

October 10, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Correspondent Antonia Gonzales sits down with the Diné architect leading a project in Ohio to replace colonialist monuments and tributes.…

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Turmoil at ABQ Journal; Baby Bonds Pilot Project

October 3, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor sits down with a journalism professor and a criminal defense lawyer to consider what’s…

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Food and Housing Insecurity at NM Colleges

September 26, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Senior Producer Lou DiVizio speaks with two authors of a recent report that shows more than half of…

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Pueblo, SF County Leaders Against LANL Power Line

September 19, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Our Land’s Laura Paskus sits down with a historian, Pueblo members and Santa Fe County leaders who oppose…

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Revisiting New Mexico’s Classrooms

September 13, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we explore problems in the classroom the state’s new public education secretary will face.  Correspondent Russell Contreras sits down…

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Labor Day & The Labor Movement Today in NM

September 6, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we explore the history of Labor Day and the state of labor in New Mexico in 2024. Senior…

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Maxeon Solar & NM’s Place in Presidential Race

August 29, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, investigative journalist Justin Horwath explains why a major solar manufacturing project in Bernalillo County is stuck in limbo.…

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