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Oil & Gas Lease Fight; New-Look Legislature

Oil pumpjack in operation in a rural landscape.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard stops by the studio and tells Senior Producer Lou DiVizio why she chose to hold off on selling the state’s most valuable oil and gas leases until officials lock in a higher royalty rate than the office is charging now. Reactions to…

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COVID Turns 4, SCOTUS & Water, Oil & Gas Workers

A surgical mask on top of a fabric with a colorful abstract pattern.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we look back at how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped the last four years. In the first of a two-part interview, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor sits down with Santa Fe-based public defender Jennifer Burrill and Michael Bird, former president of the American Public Health Association, to take stock…

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