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This week New Mexico in Focus examines the state budget and some of the bills Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham vetoed. Most of this week’s show revisits four stories that remain important today. It has been five years since the COVID pandemic hit the state....

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Politics Correspondent Gwyneth Doland sits down with two groups of journalists to discuss the ins and outs of this year's 60-day legislative session.  Hundreds of bills made their way through the Roundhouse — Doland...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Politics Correspondent Gwyneth Doland catches us up on several high-profile health care bills introduced at the Roundhouse. She speaks with Fred Nathan from Think New Mexico about a bipartisan bill aimed at changing our...

For seven years on NMPBS, Laura Paskus, Senior Producer of “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present, and Future,” has covered all aspects of climate change, From the oil and gas industry’s greenhouse gas emissions, to how human-caused warming...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Lou Divizio and journalist Shaun Griswold consider what's next for Indigenous communities as the nation braces for a second Trump administration. In an interview that first aired on Indigenous Peoples’...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor speaks with the legal and policy directors from the ACLU of New Mexico about what a second Trump administration could mean for civil rights protections in our state. In their two-part...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, KUNM’s Megan Kamerick speaks with two computer science experts about their work pushing elected officials to create privacy guardrails on artificial intelligence. In this two-part interview, Santa Fe Institute Professor...

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, 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...

For seven years on NMPBS, “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present, and Future” has covered so many aspects of climate change: from the oil and gas industry’s greenhouse gas emissions to how human-caused warming affects our rivers, forests,...