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NM’s Healthcare Workforce Shortage

By Myah Wilmarth | November 9, 2023

11.10.23 – New Mexico is grappling with a shortage of medical professionals, especially nurses. Recent reporting from New Mexico In Depth’s Marjorie Childress highlights the…

Analyzing Santa Fe’s 2023 Election Results

By Myah Wilmarth | November 9, 2023

11.10.23 – This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor chats with Santa Fe Reporter Editor and Publisher Julie Ann Grimm about…

New ‘Period Pods’ Aim to Limit Period Poverty in Santa Fe

By Myah Wilmarth | November 3, 2023

11.3.23 – Correspondent Antonia Gonzales visits the director of Free Flow New Mexico, and three other people who have been vital in getting a new…

Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930

By Myah Wilmarth | November 3, 2023

11.3.23 – Founded at the turn of the 20th century, Blackdom was a freedom colony in southern New Mexico formed by Black settlers hoping to…

New Mexico’s Water Solutions are Possible—but not Easy

By Myah Wilmarth | November 3, 2023

11.3.23 – Over the past decade, former New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission director Norman Gaume has urged lawmakers to fund state water agencies and protect…

Policing the Police

By Myah Wilmarth | November 2, 2023

11.3.23 – This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor interviews outgoing Albuquerque City Council President Pat Davis about delays in council’s…

Listening to the Gila

By Myah Wilmarth | October 27, 2023

10.27.23 – Rarely in the United States do we remember that rivers are living beings themselves—and they have something to teach us. With funding from…

Daily Lobo Journalists Uncover Clery Act Violations at UNM

By Myah Wilmarth | October 27, 2023

10.27.23 – Earlier this month, the Daily Lobo student newspaper broke a story documenting the University of New Mexico’s violations of a federal transparency act.…

Police Shootings in New Mexico: The Prosecutions

By Myah Wilmarth | October 27, 2023

10.27.23 – In the second part of a two-part discussion on police shootings, Jeff asks the group why legislators are advocating for the creation of…

Police Shootings in New Mexico: The Investigations

By Myah Wilmarth | October 27, 2023

10.27.23 – This week on New Mexico in Focus, we have an in-depth two-part conversation about police shootings in New Mexico. According to an analysis…

School Counselors Assess the Student Experience in 2023

By Myah Wilmarth | October 19, 2023

10.20.23 – COVID, remote learning, returning to school and concerns about safety are all major challenges that have snowballed for students in recent years. Executive…

Addressing Chronic Absenteeism in NM Schools

By Myah Wilmarth | October 19, 2023

10.20.23 – Chronic absenteeism has long persisted in New Mexico’s rollcall of school problems. The rate ticked down in the most recently completed school year,…