This week on New Mexico in Focus, the Line Opinion Panel takes on the difficulty of abortion rights, and the way overturning Roe V. Wade might affect our state. Will restrictive legal guidelines in different states pressure extra folks to New Mexico for procedures? The Panel will reply that query whereas contemplating the affect this debate might have on midterm elections.
Producer Kevin McDonald and the panelists additionally discuss wildfires as the most important hearth within the nation burns in northern New Mexico. They share their ideas on a federal push to develop advantages for wildland firefighters, and the broader dialogue surrounding prescribed burns.
Virgin Galactic is asserting a delay in its plans to start business area flights. Will the delay have a tangible affect at the taxpayer-funded Spaceport America?
Atmosphere Reporter Laura Paskus sits down with a meteorologist from the Nationwide Climate Service to ask why this spring has appeared even windier than regular in New Mexico, and the affect that’s having on hearth season. Laura additionally addresses the stresses many people are feeling as we think about the harm already performed within the earliest begin to hearth season we’ve seen. Professor and creator Sarah Jaquette Ray explains how people can discover some aid from local weather anxiousness.
Producer Lou DiVizio catches up with New Mexico’s Secretary of Childhood Schooling and Care to speak about new childcare expansions now obtainable for tens of hundreds of New Mexican households.
New Mexico in Focus airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) Friday, Could 13 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Could 15 at 7 a.m., and streaming on the PBS video app.
NMiF Segments
Understanding Excessive Winds
Correspondent
Laura Paskus
Visitor
Scott Overpeck, warning coordination meteorologist, Nationwide Climate Service
New Mexico Childcare Expansions
Correspondent
Lou DiVizio
Visitor
Elizabeth Groginsky, NM Secretary of Early Childhood Schooling and Care
Managing Local weather Nervousness
Correspondent
Laura Paskus
Visitor
Sarah Jaquette Ray, professor, creator of “A Discipline Information to Local weather Nervousness”
The Line opinion panel
Jessica Onsurez, information director, Carlsbad Present-Argus
Tom Garrity, Garrity Group public relations
Cathryn McGill, founder, director, NM Black Management Council
Hosts
Kevin McDonald
Lou DiVizio
New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time information journal present protecting the occasions, points, and other people which might be shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layered take a look at social, political, financial well being, training, and artwork points, and explores them in-depth with a essential eye to present 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.
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