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Juneteenth and Pride in NM; IAIA Funds Threatened

Aerial view of a modern building complex with a circular driveway, parking lots, and surrounding desert landscape at sunset, with mountains in the background.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, questions remain for Santa Fe’s Institute of the American Indian Arts as the school’s federal funding is threatened to be cut. Robert Martin, president of the institute, gave Senior Producer Lou Divizio his perspective on the school’s importance to indigenous culture and its uncertain future.  New Mexicans have celebrated…

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Fire Season in NM; Planting Seeds in a Burn Scar

Aerial view of a mountain landscape with forested hills, some areas showing signs of previous wildfire damage, under a partly cloudy blue sky.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we dig into this year’s ongoing fire season. In 2022, the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire burned more than 340,000 acres of spruce, fir and ponderosa pine. Today, recovery for the forest in the burn scar remains a work in progress. Correspondent Elizabeth Miller takes us to one of…

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