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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...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, two advocates examine a recording that captures APD officers using racial slurs and violent language, taken moments after police shot and killed a 30-year-old man. Daniel Williams of the ACLU of New Mexico tells...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Senior Producer Lou DiVizio speaks with three experts about the City of Albuquerque’s approach when dealing with a growing number of homeless people. Attorney Peter Cubra, Rachel Biggs from Health Care for the Homeless...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, KUNM’s Megan Kamerick hosts a two-part conversation about a recent town hall meeting where federal officials heard concerns from residents about nuclear production and storage in our state. In the first half, two...