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Special Session in Santa Fe Moves Swiftly as Five Bills Pass
Lawmakers passed a handful of bills favored by Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in a two-day special legislative session that…
We All Have a Role to Play in Preventing Suicide
More people took their own lives last year in New Mexico than the year before. New data from the state…
What it Means for Indigenous People to Tell Their Own Stories
In the opening scene of Pueblo Revolt, a play set in what’s now New Mexico in the late 1600s, Isleta Pueblo…
New Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Oilfield Orphans
A recent report says abandoned oil infrastructure could cost the state up to $1.6 billion in coming years. This is…
How We’re Covering Crowded Fields in Mayoral Races
Many of you have likely noticed that New Mexico in Focus is no longer in the debate-hosting game when election…
NM environment official recommends Bishop’s Lodge receive controversial sewage permit
Final approval by department secretary required by Danielle Prokop, Source New Mexico This story was originally published at Source New…
NMiF Takes a First Glance at the Albuquerque Mayoral Race
While the midterm elections aren’t until next year, which will also see a governor’s race in New Mexico, local elections…
ACLU-NM sues over detention of DACA recipient held in New Mexico ICE detention center
by Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico This story was originally published at Source New Mexico, a NMPBS partner. A 28-year-old…
Redistricting Red and Blue
Here at New Mexico in Focus, we have the privilege and challenge of analyzing complex governmental systems and processes that…
American children have more access to firearms and they’re bringing them to school
by Mia Casas, KUNM News This story was originally published at KUNM, a NMPBS partner. Last Thursday, five guns were…
Oil and Gas Forecast for New Mexico’s San Juan Basin: Going, Going …
An updated Bureau of Land Management report offers a mixed outlook for oil and gas production in the state’s second…
Hospitals on the brink
A court settlement revealed that a lobbying group opposing medical malpractice reform was funded by personal injury lawyers — but…