It's the last full week of the Legislative Session, and lawmakers are hard at work dealing with New Mexico's massive budget shortfall.  NMiF Correspondent Elain Baumgartel talks with lawmakers and others to get an inside view on budget and other battles at the Roundhouse.  

Then it's Gene Grant and our roundtable panelists with their take on the budget wrestling match, the Environment Improvement Board tussle, and the struggle over State Investment Council reform. Plus, a Farmington man wants a White History Month, and Albuquerque's Mayor Berry examines the need for a Downtown arena.

Elaine Baumgartel, Morning Edition Host, KUNM Radio 

Representative Ken Martinez – (D), Majority Floor Leader, Grants 

Representative Keith Gardner – (R), Minority Whip, Roswell 

Senator Stuart Ingle – (R), Minority Floor Leader, Portales 

Senator John Arthur Smith - (D), Deming 

David Abbey, Director, New Mexico’s Legislative Finance Committee 

Gabriel Ramon Sanchez, UNM Political Science Professor 

Laura Sanchez, Former Executive Director, New Mexico Democratic Party           

Harry Van Buren, Professor, UNM’s Anderson School of Management