New Mexico in Focus Talks with Sen. Tom Udall

The Land of Enchant­ment is now home to the high­est pri­or­ity wild­fire in the nation. This week, New Mex­ico in Focus has a can­did con­ver­sa­tion with U.S. Sen. Tom Udall about the fire-fighting efforts, the risk of a nuclear dis­as­ter and future of the nuclear mis­sion at the Los Alamos National Labs.

KNME’s one hour pub­lic affairs show New Mex­ico in Focus airs Fri­days at 7 p.m. and Sun­days at 6:30 a.m. on KNME, Chan­nel 5.1. The show can also be seen on KNME’s Dig­i­tal Chan­nel 9.1 on Sat­ur­days at 5 p.m.

Also this week, a recent U.S. Supreme Court deci­sion will have an impact on New Mexico’s pub­lic cam­paign financ­ing laws. NMIF Cor­re­spon­dent Gwyneth Doland finds out what those changes will be, and how it will impact local elections. 

Guests:
• Tom Udall, (D) Sen­a­tor|
• Sarah Gus­tavus, KUNM radio host, “All Things Con­sid­ered”
• Mag­gie Toulouse Oliver, Bernalillo county clerk

Line Guest Pan­elists:
• Den­nis Dom­rzal­ski, New Mex­ico Busi­ness Weekly, staff writer

Line Pan­elists:
• Dan Foley, for­mer Minor­ity Whip, New Mex­ico House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives
• Sophie Mar­tin, for­mer man­ag­ing edi­tor, DukeCityFix.com
• Laura Sanchez, envi­ron­men­tal lawyer, Nat­ural Resources Defense Council

New Mex­ico in Focus Cor­re­spon­dents:
• Gwyneth Doland, for­mer edi­tor, NewMexicoIndependent.com
• Kevin McDon­ald, KNME Pub­lic Affairs producer

Host/Commentator:
• Gene Grant, Weekly Alibi columnist

Watch again online at New Mex­ico in Focus. Addi­tion­ally, get updates, watch and fol­low KNME on Face­book, Twit­ter, YouTube & more.

New Mex­ico in Focus is pro­duced by Kevin McDon­ald and Kathy Wim­mer and closed cap­tion­ing has been made pos­si­ble by a gift from Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs.

Media Con­tact: Evy Todd, (505) 277‑1218; e-mail: etodd@knme.org