This week, “New Mexico in Focus” correspondent Gwyneth Doland spends a morning with Albuquerque’s mayor-elect Richard Berry to see how he is preparing to take over the helm at Albuquerque’s City Hall. “New Mexico In Focus” is KNME-TV’s weekly hour-long public affairs show airing on Friday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. on KNME-TV channel 5.1 and repeating on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 6:30 a.m.
Joining Berry and Doland are Sherman McCorkle, Berry’s Transition Team Leader, and outgoing Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White.
Then the panelists on “The Line” discuss some of the mayor-elect’s challenges, the future of public financing in elections, Governor Bill Richardson’s final decision on the budget bill the New Mexico Legislature sent him at the end of the recent special session, and how health care reform in Congress morphed into a battle over abortion.
The panel on this week’s “The Line” include regular panelists Sophie Martin, managing editor of Duke City Fix, Margaret Montoya with the UNM Schools of Law and Medicine/CUNY Law School, Jim Scarantino, editor of New Mexico Watchdog and guest panelist Carter Bundy, spokesman for the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees.
Also, viewers will get to watch a special video of Daizy, the Rio Grande Zoo’s baby elephant.
Hosted by Gene Grant, columnist for the Weekly Alibi, “New Mexico in Focus” takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic, health, education, and arts issues and explores them in-depth, with a critical eye to give them context beyond the “news of the moment.”
New Mexico in Focus can also be seen on KNME’s Digital Channel 9.1 on Saturdays at 5 p.m. Additionanlly, viewers can also watch it online at: KNME.
“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) 277-1812; e-mail: etodd@knme.org
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