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2023 Revisited: MMIWR Task Force Quietly Disbanded & Environmental Rights of NM Rivers

January 4, 2024

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we revisit some past stories. At the turn of the 20th century, Rebecca Clarren’s ancestors fled antisemitism in…

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2023 Revisited: The Future of Fire in New Mexico & Meet the NMiF Correspondents

December 29, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, as we look back on 2023, we reflect on some of our stories and interviews. Our Land Senior Producer…

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2023 Revisited: One-on-One with U.S. Attorney Alexander Uballez, Listening to the Gila

December 22, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we take you back to September and U.S. Attorney Alexander Uballez’s first interview on NMPBS.. Correspondent Russell Contreras asks about…

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2023 Revisited: Constitutional Rights of Unhoused & Celebrating Albuquerque’s Bosque

December 14, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we look back at some of our stories and interviews from the last year. U.S. Attorney Alexander Uballez speaks with…

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Spike in Migrant Deaths & Potential Impact of Redrawn Congressional Map

December 7, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor speaks with two journalists, Lauren Villagran of USA Today and Omar Ornelas of the…

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NM United’s New Stadium, PED Calendar Proposal & Building Empathy Through Poetry

November 30, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, New Mexico United CEO and President Peter Trevisani stops by our studio for a one-on-one interview. In partnership…

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MMIWR Task Force Quietly Disbanded, U.S. Interior Sec. Deb Haaland & Celebrating Native American Heritage

November 21, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we discuss Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s decision to quietly shut down the state’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women…

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Exploring Sheriff’s Office Oversight, Albuquerque Air Quality & Transit Equity

November 16, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor speaks with Matthew Reisen from the Albuquerque Journal about a recent indictment alleging a multi-state…

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2023 Elections, NM’s Healthcare Workforce Shortage & Local Journalism in the 1970s

November 9, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor chats with Santa Fe Reporter Editor and Publisher Julie Ann Grimm about the capital…

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Policing the Police, The Significance of the Afro-Frontier & Santa Fe Period Pods

November 2, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor interviews Albuquerque City Council President Pat Davis about delays in council’s handling of citizen…

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Police Shootings in NM, UNM Clery Act Violations, Listening to the Gila River

October 26, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we have an in-depth, two-part conversation about police shootings in New Mexico. According to an analysis by Searchlight New Mexico,…

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PED Secretary Talks Yazzie-Martinez Response, Chronic Absenteeism & School Counselors Assess the Student Experience

October 19, 2023

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we turn our attention to three education issues we’ve been following closely in recent weeks and months, beginning with…

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