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Money in Politics – New Mexico In Depth
WEBState Ethics Commission sues Apodaca’s dark money operation By Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In Depth | May 24, 2024. The State Ethics Commission on Friday sued a dark money group and its president, Jeff Apodaca, to force disclosure of the sources behind the money paying for political advertising in support of legislative candidates running in the June 4 primary election.
Remembering the largest radioactive spill in U.S. history
WEBJul 7, 2014 · But the largest spill of radioactive material in the United States happened three and half months after Three Mile Island and several thousands of miles west of Pennsylvania. July 16 will mark the 35th anniversary of the day in 1979 when a dam on the Navajo Nation near Church Rock, N.M., broke at an …
For the state’s dormant criminal abortion law, conditions are …
WEBLawmakers and reproductive health advocates believe the time is ripe to remove a criminal abortion law from New Mexico state statute. First step: the reintroduction of a bill during the 2021 legislative session that would repeal a 1969 law that, while unenforceable due to the U.S. Supreme Court 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that protects […]
Low pay: A stumbling block for quality childcare
WEBNov 7, 2019 · Low wages are built into the business model, as are hundreds of millions of dollars in annual subsidies from New Mexico taxpayers. The median wage for New Mexico child care workers was $9.49 an hour in 2018, according to the state’s Department of Workforce Solutions . Staff turnover is a major dilemma for operators.
A century of federal indifference left generations of Navajo homes ...
WEBWhen Julie Badonie was growing up in the small Navajo community of Tohatchi in the 1940s, her father drove a horse-drawn wagon early each morning to a nearby spring. There, he filled wooden barrels with water the family would use that day to drink, cook, and wash. Badonie, the youngest of seven children, including brothers […]
New Mexico AG greenlights new task force, creates online portal …
WEBThis reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit and Transgender People (MMIWG2T). Attorney General Raúl Torrez plans to establish a task force focused on the disproportionate rates at which Indigenous people experience violence and go missing, the New Mexico ...
Housing shortage hampers community re-entry for prisoners
WEBOct 15, 2021 · Statewide, there’s a shortage of available housing for offenders exiting prison. State lawmakers got the bad news Wednesday during a hearing of the Courts, Corrections and Justice legislative committee. There are many challenges to placing prisoners in communities, according to New Mexico corrections officials and a program manager for an Albuquerque transitional living center.
A dam's 'painful' history - New Mexico In Depth
WEBAug 7, 2013 · Cochiti Dam is one of the 10 largest earthen dams in the United States. It contains more than 65 million cubic feet of earth and rock, stretches more than five miles across, and rises about 250 feet above the Rio Grande. Driving past the dam on my way to check out the reservoir’s waters I was reminded of a talk the Pueblo of Cochiti’s Regis ...
State lawmakers boost efforts to expand broadband
WEBApr 15, 2021 · At the beginning of the pandemic, 80% of students in the Cuba Independent School District couldn’t connect online from home. Almost a year later, the problem is considerably smaller, said Tim Chavez, the district’s Technology Director. Because cell phone providers are the best way for people in the …