This week on New Mexico in Focus, the Line Opinion Panel opinions the state’s new draft plan to handle the Yazzie Martinez lawsuit. Amongst different issues, that plan units new targets for commencement charges, together with math and science proficiency. Panelists will talk about whether or not the plan goes far sufficient to bridge the gaps in schooling entry highlighted within the 2018 lawsuit. 

Plus, new info from a legislative economist exhibits the state may very well be in for much more surplus income than anticipated. The Panel brainstorms how the cash may very well be most successfully used, and the way New Mexico’s reliance on oil and fuel income impacts the state’s shift in the direction of renewable vitality. 

The Panel additionally discusses the now record-setting wildfire burning close to Las Vegas. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham desires the federal authorities to cowl all the prices for all our fires, however is {that a} life like request? 

Atmosphere Reporter Laura Paskus talks with an knowledgeable from The Nature Conservancy to know how maps of those wildfires are plotted every day, and the way necessary that information is for each energetic firefighting in addition to understanding the impacts of local weather change. 

Paskus additionally supplies a little bit of a actuality verify on the subject of our perceptions of the altering setting, throughout a dialogue with a professor from the College of Arizona.  

New Mexico in Focus airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) Friday, Might 20 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Might 22 at 7 a.m., and streaming on the PBS video app. 

NMiF Segments

Wildfire Mapping 
Correspondent
Laura Paskus 

Visitor
Steve Bassett, director, Planning and Spatial Evaluation with The Nature Conservancy 

Upending the West’s Water Narratives 
Correspondent
Laura Paskus 

Visitor 
Andrew Curley, College of Arizona, Faculty of Geography, Improvement & Atmosphere 

The Line opinion panel
Merritt Allen, Vox Optima public relations 
Laura Sanchez, lawyer 
Dan Boyd, capitol bureau chief, Albuquerque Journal 

Hosts
Lou DiVizio 
Kevin McDonald 

New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time information journal present overlaying the occasions, points, and folks which are shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layered have a look at social, political, financial well being, schooling, and artwork points, and explores them in-depth with a crucial eye to provide them context past the “information of the second.” 

This system debuts Friday nights at 7 p.m. on NMPBS 5.1(KNME-HD) and seems on-line at New Mexico in Focus. The present rebroadcasts on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME-HD) Sundays at 7 a.m. and on NMPBS 5.4 on Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.

The producer of New Mexico in Focus is Matt Grubs, with Kathy Wimmer, affiliate producer. The NM PBS Public Affairs government producer is Kevin McDonald. 

The McCune Charitable Basis supplies NMiF funding, together with viewers such as you.

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