Community College Boosts Support for Student Parents
By Roz Brown In today’s higher-education landscape, more than one-in-five college students also are parents – leading one New Mexico college to create a Student Parent Resource Hub…
Head Start Employees Speak Out About Unfair Compensation
By Megan Taros These days it costs $16 for a packet of chicken big enough to feed Alma Ortiz’s family. It’s a big jump from what she’s used…
Luján Holds Highlights Federal Investments Secured for the Navajo Nation
U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) visited Aztec on Feb. 20 to hold a roundtable discussion on New Mexico’s agriculture priorities for the upcoming 2023 Farm Bill. Their conversations…
Sierra Club Supporters Submit More than 16,000 Comments to EPA
The public comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed supplemental rule aimed at cutting methane and other emissions from the oil and gas sector ended February…
Expanding Indigenous Access to the Ballot is Good for Democracy
Ahtza D. Chavez Indigenous communities across the U.S. are being denied the full measure of our civil rights, including the right to fully participate in the democratic process….
Tribal Education is a Matter of Cultural Survival: ‘We Need To Act Now’
By Austin Fisher There is plenty of history between the state of New Mexico and Native nations, and it hasn’t always been very pleasant, said Mark Mitchell, former…
Clemency For Leonard Peltier Demanded Decades After His Incarceration
By Maddie Pukite People in Albuquerque joined others across the country demanding the release of Leonard Peltier from federal prison. “His imprisonment was meant to demoralize us…
A Legislative Proposal on Clean Air in Schools Could Become New Mexico Law
Even though New Mexico requires public schools to upgrade their heating and air conditioning systems to clean indoor air well enough to remove coronavirus and other harms, people…
Proposed Legislation Seeks to End Detention Contracts with ICE
By Megan Gleason About a decade ago, Itzayana Banda’s father called to tell her how horribly officials at the Otero County Processing Center were treating him and how…
Advocates for Reproductive Health Clinic Gather in the Capital
By Danielle Prokop There’s no timeline for the future $10 million reproductive health center in Las Cruces, N.M., but advocates turned out at the capital, touting a vision…