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This week, New Mexico in Focus wraps up the candidate conversations with two congressional incumbents and two Republican challengers.  Correspondent Russell Contreras asks U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-NM, to speak on an immigration bill that would expand...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, two longtime politics watchers break down how the policies recommended in Project 2025 could shape the lives of New Mexicans if Donald Trump wins the White House in November. First, political psychologist and author...

This week, New Mexico in Focus begins its 2024 election interviews with U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. Politics correspondent Gwyneth Doland asks about several top concerns for most New Mexico voters: crime in our state, immigration reform and...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Correspondent Antonia Gonzales sits down with the Diné architect leading a project in Ohio to replace colonialist monuments and tributes. Tamarah Begay is in charge of the “Reimagining Columbus” project and explains how...

This week on NewMexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor sits down with a journalism professor and a criminal defense lawyer to consider what's next for the Albuquerque Journal, following the arrest and jailing of its executive editor after a...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Senior Producer Lou DiVizio speaks with two authors of a recent report that shows more than half of New Mexico college and university students struggle with food and housing insecurity.   Sarita Cargas, founder of...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Our Land's Laura Paskus sits down with a historian, Pueblo members and Santa Fe County leaders who oppose federal plans to build a new transmission line across the Caja del Rio to Los Alamos National...

This week, New Mexico in Focus explores problems in the classroom which the state's new public education secretary will face.  Correspondent Russell Contreras sits down with Karen Sanchez-Griego, a former superintendent of the Cuba Independent School...

This week, New Mexico in Focus explores the history of Labor Day and the state of labor in New Mexico in 2024.   Senior Producer Lou DiVizio sits down with University of New Mexico Professor Jason Scott Smith as he explains the roots of the holiday and...

This week, New Mexico in Focus explores minimum wage rates around our state. Senior Producer Lou DiVizio speaks with New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions Secretary Sarita Nair on state protections for minimum wage employees and tipped...