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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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WEBApr 12, 2021 · Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, throwing people out of work and wiping grocery store shelves bare.Six months later, the pandemic’s imprint on the small farm in the Pecos river valley of central New Mexico is easy to see. Twelve raised planting beds and three-quarters of an acre of newly planted plum, cherry, nectarine, and apricot trees grow ...
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WEBBy Ted Alcorn, New Mexico In Depth | January 22, 2024. Alcohol killed more than 2,000 New Mexicans in 2022, according to new data from the Department of Health, the third straight year the state exceeded that grim threshold. Although New Mexico has long suffered the nation’s highest rate of alcohol-related deaths, the crisis has often been ...
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WEBSmart. Investigative. Journalism for New Mexico. New Mexico Senate passes capital outlay transparency bill By Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In Depth | March 18, 2021. The Senate passed a measure Wednesday that would enable New Mexicans for the first time to see how each lawmaker spends public infrastructure money under their control.
Take uranium contamination off our land, Navajos urge federal …
WEBThe gale-force winds that swept across New Mexico on Friday, driving fires and evacuations, gave Diné residents in a small western New Mexico community an opportunity to demonstrate first hand the danger they live with every day. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) members were in the Red Water Pond Road community, about 20 minutes northeast of […]
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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 […]
Lawmakers push forward housing bills - New Mexico In Depth
WEBJan 26, 2022 · The fiscal impact report, based on data from the New Mexico Association of Realtors, also noted a steep rise in home prices, with the median home sale price jumping from $185,000 in 2016 to $290,500 in 2021. Senate Bill 19, which cleared the Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee on a unanimous vote …
How the rise of copper reveals clean energy’s dark side
WEBNov 9, 2021 · Chris Berry, an independent analyst focused on energy metals, said the push for clean energy is a big reason. The demand for copper is estimated to grow by 350 percent by 2050 if the world moves towards clean energy. Its price nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020 in the US. That’s partly because copper’s role in the transition to clean energy ...
Amid a withering drought, New Mexico leaders struggle to plan …
WEBApr 11, 2023 · Though the Rio Grande runs through the heart of New Mexico’s biggest city, you can easily miss it. Even from places where you’d expect to see water — designated parking areas near the river or paths along which you carry a boat to cast off from the nearest bank — it’s often invisible behind a screen of cottonwoods.