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How We’re Covering Crowded Fields in Mayoral Races

September 12, 2025
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Many of you have likely noticed that New Mexico in Focus is no longer in the debate-hosting game when election season comes around. The lockdowns accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic largely drove this shift in the beginning, but it’s evolved into a more intentional choice in the last few years.  While we aren’t ruling out debates…

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APD on Its Own

May 30, 2025
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Public attention has waned, as it so often does, during the last few years of federal oversight at the Albuquerque Police Department. A post-COVID spike in crime, presidential politics, a massive police corruption scandal — it’s easy enough to see how folks lost touch with the meticulous, numbers-heavy happenings inside a federal courtroom meant to…

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