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This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Antonia Gonzales speaks with two New Mexicans about their thoughts and emotions after President Joe Biden's formal apology for the harm caused by Indian boarding schools.   Sixth-grade student Rainier Long...

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, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor sits down with Sophia Genovese, an attorney with the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center. Genovese tells us how advocates and lawmakers are already working on new ways to push back against a...

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, New Mexico in Focus breaks down this year’s general election results.  Senior Producer Lou DiVizio goes over the state’s congressional contests with a special roundtable of politics experts.  Then, DiVizio reviews the state’s many House and...

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...