New Mexico In Depth

Will Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance change New Mexico law?

In a major campaign-finance ruling issued Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down federal limits on how much political ...
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A case for life long learning. It’s called journalism.

After earning my college diploma in my early 20s, I felt as if I’d reached the apex of learning. It’s comical to remember ...
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Regulating AI could threaten federal broadband funding

New Mexico plans to connect the last households in the state that don’t have high-speed internet access, including tribal ...
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The Legislature’s school-day problem

The Legislature wants students in school for more days. But it has repeatedly stopped short of requiring them. That tension surfaced during a Legislative Finance Committee hearing in Ruidoso last week ...
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The Legislature wants students in school for more days. But it has repeatedly stopped short of requiring them. That tension surfaced during a Legislative Finance Committee hearing in Ruidoso last week ...
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POISONOUS MYTHS

Public safety officers help an intoxicated man who had fallen asleep outside the Sports Page Lounge in Gallup, N.M. CREDIT: Ted Alcorn for New Mexico In Depth. The forecasted low in Gallup is 17 ...
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PAYING THE TAB

New Mexico State Capitol. Image by Marjorie Childress. Alcohol costs New Mexico dearly. It killed 1,878 residents in 2020, three times the nation’s rate. But getting hammered here is cheap. At the ...
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Thousands of Native students attend Albuquerque schools. Most will never have a Native teacher.

Growing up in Albuquerque, high school junior Brook Chavez, who is Diné, never had a Native American teacher until last year, when she took a Navajo language and culture class. There, the 16 year old ...
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Growing number of NM schools pursue restorative justice to keep kids in schools

On a brisk February morning with snow on the ground, children arrived at Tsé Bit A’í Middle School in Shiprock, on the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico. Word in the hallway was something was ...
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Poverty fell more than a third in New Mexico due to tax changes, but there’s more to do

The first cars arrived before dawn. By 9 a.m., vehicles snaked through the food distribution event at the state fairgrounds in Albuquerque. It was a week before Christmas, and thousands of families ...
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More Water or More Wild: The Decades-Long Struggle over the Gila River’s Fate

This story was published in collaboration with Bitterroot, an online magazine about the politics, economy, culture, and environment of the West. On the sunny afternoon decades ago when M.H. “Dutch” ...
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Inmates: Waivers required to receive masks, ‘a lot of unrest’ inside private Cibola County lockup

Before inmates at the privately run Cibola County Correctional Center near Grants received face coverings last month, they had to sign on the dotted line. “They made us sign a waiver stipulating that ...