​This week on New Mexico in Focus, Politics Correspondent Gwyneth Doland asks two former lawmakers how this year’s legislative session is shaping up.​

Former state senators Mark Moores and Eric Griego discuss the state's budget and a package of crime bills that have hit the governor's desk.

Then, the pair consider how lobbyist dollars are tipping the scales at the Roundhouse as legislators debate environmental and health care system reform bills. 

Gwyneth interviews Rep. Matthew McQueen about his proposal to let voters decide whether governors should be allowed to effectively veto bills with no explanation. 

Senior Producer Lou DiVizio asks two students and a law professor how their proposal to desegregate gendered acting categories at the Oscars reached the doorsteps of Hollywood.

DiVizio also sits down with a UNM researcher to discuss a study that found high levels of microplastics in the human brain.​

NMiF airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) on Friday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 2 at 7 a.m. and streaming on the PBS video app. ​

NMiF Segments
Former Lawmakers Analyze State Budget & Crime Bills
and
Environmental Protections and Lobbying in NM 
Correspondent
Gwyneth Doland

Guests
Mark Moores, former Republican senator 
Dr. Eric Griego, former Democratic senator, UNM Adjunct Professor

UNM Law Students Against Gendered Acting Categories at the Oscars
Correspondent
Lou DiVizio

Guests
Abigail McCoy, UNM Constitutional Law student, proposal contributor
Devrah Fung, UNM Constitutional Law student, proposal contributor
Lawrence Jones, UNM adjunct professor, former New Jersey Superior Court judge

Resolution Would Let Voters Kill Pocket-Veto Power
Correspondent
Gwyneth Doland

Guest
Rep. Matthew McQueen, D-Santa Fe

New Report Examines Microplastics in the Human Brain
Correspondent
Lou DiVizio

Guest
Dr. Marcus Garcia, University of New Mexico Health Sciences

Host
Lou DiVizio

New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic health, education, and art issues and explores them in-depth with a critical eye to give them context beyond the "news of the moment."

NMPBS Executive Producer, Public Affairs, is Jeff Proctor. New Mexico in Focus's senior producer for public affairs is Lou DiVizio. “Our Land” Senior Producer is Laura Paskus. The producer of New Mexico in Focus is Antonio Sanchez, and co-producer is Kathy Wimmer.

Funding for New Mexico in Focus is provided by the McCune Charitable Foundation and Viewers Like You.

Funding for the Your New Mexico Government Project comes from the Thornburg Foundation and New Mexico Local News Fund.

The Neeper Natural History Programming Fund for KNME-TV provides funding for Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present & Future.