Posts by Jeff Proctor

This week marks the last new episode of New Mexico in Focus for a bit — more on that in due course — and it’s a good one.  Lily Alexander, one of the best young journalists in the state, shoulders much of the weight as she helps us understand her reporting on years of turmoil, turnover and…

Albuquerque City Councilor Joaquín Baca represents the Near North Valley, a piece of the West Mesa, the San Jose area and, important to this week’s episode of New Mexico in Focus, Downtown. It’s a tough district, with many competing interests: businesses, bars and a sizeable portion of the city’s unhoused population.    In the spring, Baca…