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New Year, New Correspondent

By Joshua Bowling January 21, 2025

You’ll see a new face when you tune in to New Mexico in Focus this week, and I hope you’ll stick around for this print journalist’s debut as a TV…

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For the Turnstiles

By Jeff Proctor January 10, 2025

Alexander Uballez tossed his name in the hat to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico in 2020 after spending four years as a line prosecutor…

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See You in 2025

By Jeff Proctor December 16, 2024

It’s been a long year for New Mexico in Focus, full of staffing challenges, toxic politics during a wild election season, a news cycle that never ends and more. We’re…

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‘Participatory Defense’

By Jeff Proctor December 6, 2024

I remember being struck in July by one of the signs delegates and other attendees of the Republican National Convention gleefully waved ceilingward inside Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum as speakers frothed…

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Riding the sovereignty train, or how Ozzy Osbourne shaped my metaphorical views on being sovereign

By Shaun Griswold November 29, 2024

Tribal sovereignty will continue to ride alongside the U.S. in a train headed toward a familiar and uncomfortable tunnel. What comes when the light returns is unknown.  What we don’t…