Lou DiVizio, Author at New Mexico In Focus

Forecasting December’s Election Encore

November 7, 2025

Two mayoral candidates speak at separate campaign events; one gestures with a microphone, the other stands behind a podium with supporters and a campaign sign.

Election Day is romanticized in newsrooms across the country: the privilege to cover the events of a day where individuals wield influence over a political system that more often makes participation feel futile. Well, lucky us — we get to do it all again Dec. 9 in Albuquerque. That’s because incumbent Mayor Tim Keller failed…

Redistricting Red and Blue

August 29, 2025

A yellow outline of New Mexico’s state flag is centered between a blue Democratic donkey and a red Republican elephant, both decorated with stars, against a colorful cosmic background.

Here at New Mexico in Focus, we have the privilege and challenge of analyzing complex governmental systems and processes that impact us all, yet which few people may truly understand. The federal health care program Medicaid is one of those systems. And after Congress passed the most severe cuts in the program’s history through President…