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Questions Remain for July’s Special Session

By Lou DiVizio | June 28, 2024

This week New Mexico in Focus looks ahead to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s special session in July. You’ll hear from…

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Minimizing Harm

By Laura Paskus | June 25, 2024

Earlier this year, tenth graders from Thoreau High School wrote to media outlets and officials across the state, drawing attention to…

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The Journalism of Fire

By Jeff Proctor | June 21, 2024

Here we are again, the time of year in which nmfireinfo.com becomes a regular part of our daily reading diet. As I…

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“We never gave up.”

By Laura Paskus | June 18, 2024

As Our Land Weekly readers well know, in 2016, the Pueblo of Santa Ana paid the King family more than…

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Understanding, Appreciating & Celebrating Juneteenth in New Mexico

By Myah Wilmarth | June 14, 2024

This week, a group of New Mexico Black community leaders and elders tell us about the importance of celebrating Juneteenth.…

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RECA Expires, Hopes Dwindle

By Danielle Prokop | June 7, 2024

Time is up for the Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act, and its loss twists the knife for communities across the…

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“Unfortunately, that fear became a reality…”

By Laura Paskus | June 4, 2024

Last week, I wrote about the accident that killed Tim Hart, one of the smokejumpers sent to fight the Eicks…

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Indigenous Celebration Cut by Farmington Schools as Protective Laws Fail Yet Again

By Shaun Griswold | May 31, 2024

Technology has a way of showing us that with all its advancement, so much remains the same. Doom-scrolling through social…

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‘We don’t jump the Bootheel’

By Laura Paskus | May 28, 2024

On May 24, 2021, a campfire blew up along the U.S.-Mexico border in Hidalgo County. It was burning on the…

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Close Your Laptop — Now

By Jeff Proctor | May 24, 2024

Greetings and salutations, New Mexico in Focus people. I’ve promised to be brief in this space before, then subjected you…

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Recalibrating

By Laura Paskus | May 21, 2024

Things have been a bit hectic at NMPBS lately, so I’m filling in on New Mexico in Focus this week…

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A Fistful of Dollars

By Jeff Proctor | May 17, 2024

So, the most expensive race in New Mexico this election season is…between two Democrats for the job of Bernalillo County…

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