Episodes

This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Matt Grubs sits down for an in-depth conversation with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham about her ambitions goal of raising New Mexico’s public education system to be the best in the country. … Continue reading Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Education, Pop-up Park in the International District, The Line →

This week, New Mexico in Focus features an interview with Janet Napolitano, President Barack Obama’s first Homeland Security Secretary. Napolitano argues that, since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States needs to focus its attention and resources on actual … Continue reading Janet Napolitano, Our Land Gila River, The Line →

This week on New Mexico in Focus, producer Matt Grubs sits down with Rep. Alonzo Baldonado and Sen. Mimi Stewart to discuss the aftermath of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s recent dismissal of Public Education Secretary Karen Trujillo. Lawmakers from both parties … Continue reading Public Education Secretary Karen Trujillo Dismissal, State of Education for New Mexico’s Public Schools, The Line →

 This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick talks with two scholars at the University of New Mexico about a delicate subject – slavery.  Slavery was common in the Southwest, especially in our state. Native Americans were captured … Continue reading Slavery in New Mexico, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Movement, The Line →

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with Nikki Nojima Louis, who was among 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in camps across the West during World War II. Nojima Louis now lives in Albuquerque and works … Continue reading Internment Camps and the Immigration Debate, “Molly of Denali” Producer Has New Mexico Ties, The Line →

This week on New Mexico in Focus, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus speaks with outgoing Senator Tom Udall about the struggle for action on climate change during his final 18 months in the U.S. Senate. Paskus also takes viewers along for … Continue reading Tom Udall on Climate Change, International Folk Art Market, Human Trafficking in NM →

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with a groundbreaking local figure in the field of public health. Michael Bird is a regular contributor on our Line opinion panel segments. But he is also a … Continue reading Michael Bird on Health Disparities for Native Americans, Migrant Crisis, Female Full-Contact Sports in NM →

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with researchers at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine who have developed a vaccine that carries the tantalizing possibility of preventing Alzheimer’s disease. NMiF travels to … Continue reading Alzheimer’s Vaccine, Trump Rally in Santa Fe, The Line →

This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Matt Grubs has a serious conversation with Sen. Tom Udall about the very real possibility the United States may go to war with Iran. Sen. Udall has been outspoken in opposing … Continue reading Sen. Tom Udall, Economic Development in Rural Northern NM, The Line →

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Gwyneth Doland travels to Valencia County, where a year ahead of the census count, local planners are reaching out to community leaders in hard-to-count neighborhoods. Millions of dollars in federal funding are at … Continue reading 2020 Census in Rural New Mexico, Managing the Rio Grande, Festival Flamenco Albuquerque, The Line →