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It’s been a long year for New Mexico in Focus, full of staffing challenges, toxic politics during a wild election…
Read More...‘Participatory Defense’
I remember being struck in July by one of the signs delegates and other attendees of the Republican National Convention…
Read More...Riding the sovereignty train, or how Ozzy Osbourne shaped my metaphorical views on being sovereign
Tribal sovereignty will continue to ride alongside the U.S. in a train headed toward a familiar and uncomfortable tunnel. What…
Read More...‘We’re All in This Together’
Tumbling down the rabbit hole of news spraying out from President-elect Donald Trump’s transition is an easy temptation: Gaetz out,…
Read More...‘Computer Says No’
We’ve been looking for ways to address the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence over the last several months at New…
Read More...Making Sense of the 2024 Election
There exists a near-endless list of places you could go and read an overwritten think-piece on how this year’s presidential…
Read More...A Quadruple Dose of Candidate Conversations
Consider this week’s episode of New Mexico in Focus something of a mad dash to the finish line of what…
Read More...Whose Plan Is it, Anyway?
It’s election season, which means I’ve seen enough political yard signs around town the last several weeks to have taken…
Read More...Gaza Looms Over Election for some Native People
Nicole Pelt (Diné) says she’s voting for Kamala Harris, partly because she’s worried a second Donald Trump presidency will lead…
Read More...Money Can’t Buy You Love, but it Buys Political Access
We’re officially in the homestretch of election season. Early voting has begun, and we’re all being forced to wade through…
Read More...An Inflection Point for NM’s Largest Newspaper
A Rio Rancho municipal court judge on Thursday, Oct. 3, ordered Albuquerque Journal Executive Editor Patrick Ethridge released from the Sandoval…
Read More...Food and Housing Insecurity at NM Colleges
This week on New Mexico in Focus, we get some context on a recent study with some pretty staggering statistics.…
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