This week on New Mexico in Focus, politics correspondent Gwyneth Doland speaks with former state senator Dede Feldman and former state representative Justine Fox-Young about Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s State of the State address.
Doland asks whether this year's push from the governor for tougher laws on crime will succeed. Then, the pair of former lawmakers consider what Lujan Grisham's choice to leave President Donald Trump out of her address might mean about her last two years in office.
Gwyneth speaks with Democratic state Rep. Reena Szczepanski, and Republican senators Jay Block and Pat Woods after the governor's speech to ask about some of her top-line issues.
Source New Mexico's Danielle Prokop sits with Our Land's Laura Paskus to look back at Laura’s time as a reporter and senior producer at New Mexico PBS.
NMiF airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) on Friday, Jan. 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 19 at 7 a.m. and streaming on the PBS video app.
NMiF Segments
2025 State of the State: Gov. Lujan Grisham Pushes for Tougher Crime Laws
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2025 State of the State: Public Education, CYFD, and What Wasn’t Said
Correspondent
Gwyneth Doland
Guests
Dede Feldman, Democratic Former State Senator
Justine Fox-Young, Attorney and Republican Former State Representative
NM State Senators, Reps Respond to 2025 State of the State
Correspondent
Gwyneth Doland
Guests
State Sen. Jay Block, R-Rio Rancho
State Sen. Pat Woods, R-Broadview
State Rep. Reena Szczepanski, D-Santa Fe, Majority Floor Leader
Reflecting on Eight Seasons of Our Land
Correspondent
Danielle Prokop, reporter, Source New Mexico
Guest
Laura Paskus, senior producer, Our Land
Host
Jeff Proctor
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.