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Hobbs Mayor on Ordinance That Blocks Abortion Clinics
5.5.23 – Gene sits down with Sam Cobb, mayor of Hobbs, to discuss Cobb’s decision last fall to pass an ordinance that restricts abortion access…
UNM Study Hopes to Break the Cycle of Dependency Using MDMA-Assisted Therapy
4.21.23 – Opioid addiction has destroyed lives and families across the country and here in New Mexico. UNM Health Sciences has been treating expectant mothers…
NM Filmmaker Premiers Documentary, ‘Oppenheimer After Trinity’
3.21.23 – Gene Grant speaks with New Mexico filmmaker Larry Sheffield about his new documentary profiling J. Robert Oppenheimer. The film pieces together old footage,…
Will UNM Benefit from Mountain West Rival’s Tournament Success?
4.14.23 – For the first time in conference history, the NCAA’s Mountain West saw one of its teams make it to the Final Four. The…
Bernalillo County District Attorney Explains Public Safety Priorities
4.14.23 – New Mexico in Focus correspondent Russell Contreras catches up with Bernalillo County’s new district attorney, Sam Bregman. The Governor appointed Bregman, a longtime…
Improving the Health and Safety of Indigenous Mothers and Infants
4.14.23 – A new report spotlights some of the federal government’s shortcomings when it comes to Indigenous health care — specifically for mothers and newborns.…
Ukrainian Americans of New Mexico Reflect on Ongoing Invasion, More Than One Year Later
4.7.23 – One year after Russia invaded Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian citizens in New Mexico is pushing even harder to rally support for their…
Martha Burk and Augusta National, 20 Years Later
4.7.23 – Every year on the second week of April, the golf world turns its attention to Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia — it’s…
Women’s Issues in the 2023 Legislative Session | In Focus / Your NM Government
Gene Grant sits down with Martha Burk, political psychologist, author and host of the podcast, ‘Real Time with Martha Burk.’ Gene asks about a series…
Updating the Response to the Yazzie Martinez Ruling
02.10.23 – NMiF Correspondent Russell Contreras sits down with Thomas Saenz, the president and general counsel at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund…
Industry Insider Reacts to ‘Rust’ Manslaughter Charges
02.03.23 – Gene Maddaus, senior media reporter for Variety, and Gene Grant discuss the recent involuntary manslaughter charges formally filed against actor and ‘Rust’ producer…
Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands
01.13.2023 – New Mexico in Focus correspondent Russell Contreras speaks with UNM Professor and Author Bernadine Hernandez about her book, ‘Border Bodies.’ The book discusses…