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WEBIt’s unclear. It is unclear who is on a state advisory council on missing and murdered Indigenous people announced nearly eight months ago by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham amid upset over her decision to disband a task force focused on the crisis. A story New Mexico In Depth published Friday about the council meeting behind closed doors ...
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WEBNew Mexico In Depth is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization founded in 2012 as a response to ongoing downsizing among traditional news organizations. Since then, we’ve produced incisive statehouse and political reporting, long-form investigations, and explanatory journalism in service to our communities. New Mexico In Depth Mission Our mission is to produce investigative, data-rich […]
Almost $6 billion in New Mexico money meant for infrastructure …
WEBAug 28, 2024 · Public dollars sitting unspent is a chronic problem for New Mexico. To be fair, nearly a quarter of the $5.9 billion is money authorized during this year’s legislative session. It takes time to spend money on big construction projects and other infrastructure. But that still leaves more than $4.5 billion that’s unspent from previous years.
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 …
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Indigenous Affairs – New Mexico In Depth
WEBAttorney General Raúl Torrez will have $200,000 at his disposal to create a new task force focused on the disproportionate rates at which Indigenous people experience violence and go missing. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham kept the funding allocated by lawmakers in the $10.2 billion state budget she approved today.
Agreement on NM probation, parole reforms seems stuck in the …
WEBBy Jeff Proctor, New Mexico In Depth | July 31, 2019. Lawmakers and prosecutors appear as far apart as ever on reform proposals for New Mexico’s probation and parole systems, despite Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham admonishing them to find common ground in April. That’s when the first-term Democratic governor vetoed a reform bill — with ...
Most New Mexico college students struggle with unstable housing …
WEBAug 27, 2024 · Nicole Pelt is on track to be the first person in her family to graduate college. The 20-year-old Diné student is in her senior year at the University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque campus. She chose Native American Studies as a major because she wanted to learn about potential solutions to the impacts of colonization, like […]
Maxeon promises solar jobs. Reality is less certain.
WEBAug 19, 2024 · On a vast shrubby mesa in Southeast Albuquerque, local politicians and developers for years have envisioned a master-planned urban community with more than 10,000 homes in close proximity to a jobs center with high-tech factories, film production facilities, and retail businesses. They named the development Mesa del Sol. After fits and starts over several decades, […]
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 ...