Skip to content

Articles

Read the Latest from New Mexico in Focus & Partners

What it Means for Indigenous People to Tell Their Own Stories

By Bella Davis | September 19, 2025

In the opening scene of Pueblo Revolt, a play set in what’s now New Mexico in the late 1600s, Isleta Pueblo…

New Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Oilfield Orphans

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main | September 16, 2025

A recent report says abandoned oil infrastructure could cost the state up to $1.6 billion in coming years. This is…

How We’re Covering Crowded Fields in Mayoral Races

By Jeff Proctor | September 12, 2025

Many of you have likely noticed that New Mexico in Focus is no longer in the debate-hosting game when election…

NM environment official recommends Bishop’s Lodge receive controversial sewage permit

By Danielle Prokop | September 12, 2025

Final approval by department secretary required by Danielle Prokop, Source New Mexico This story was originally published at Source New…

NMiF Takes a First Glance at the Albuquerque Mayoral Race

By Nash Jones | September 5, 2025

While the midterm elections aren’t until next year, which will also see a governor’s race in New Mexico, local elections…

ACLU-NM sues over detention of DACA recipient held in New Mexico ICE detention center

By Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico | September 5, 2025

by Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico This story was originally published at Source New Mexico, a NMPBS partner. A 28-year-old…

Redistricting Red and Blue

By Lou DiVizio | August 29, 2025

Here at New Mexico in Focus, we have the privilege and challenge of analyzing complex governmental systems and processes that…

American children have more access to firearms and they’re bringing them to school

By Mia Casas, KUNM News | August 29, 2025

by Mia Casas, KUNM News This story was originally published at KUNM, a NMPBS partner. Last Thursday, five guns were…

Oil and Gas Forecast for New Mexico’s San Juan Basin: Going, Going …

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main | August 25, 2025

An updated Bureau of Land Management report offers a mixed outlook for oil and gas production in the state’s second…

Hospitals on the brink

By Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico | August 22, 2025

A court settlement revealed that a lobbying group opposing medical malpractice reform was funded by personal injury lawyers — but…

Trump’s Medicaid Surgery Could Paralyze NM

By Lou DiVizio | August 22, 2025

Here at New Mexico in Focus, we have the privilege and challenge of analyzing complex governmental systems and processes that…

Native Entrepreneurs are Changing Rez Life

By Bella Davis | August 15, 2025

Green fields and a basketball hoop line the road to Roddell Denetso’s sports apparel shop in Shiprock, a town on…