New México Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Sign-Up Website
The New Mexico Department of Health recently announced the launch of a website that enables New Mexicans to receive notice when they qualify for COVID-19 vaccine. That website is…
‘The Pollution is Everywhere, and All the Time’
By Kendra Chamberlain Dave Rogers is a reverend in Carlsbad, New México, and founder of the group Citizens Caring For the Future. The group started, he said, out of…
Attorney General Balderas Warns New Mexicans to Beware of Scams
Attorney General Hector Balderas recently issued a consumer safety advisory to New Mexican consumers about the increased proliferation of COVID-19 vaccine related scams, as vaccine rollout begins. Pharmaceutical companies and…
MMIW and Relatives Task Force Finds Gaps in Data
By Susan Dunlap Tiffany Reid, Diné (Navajo) went missing in 2004. She was 17. Law enforcement has still not entered her case into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC),…
New México Provides $5 Million in Financial Relief Funds
The New México Human Services Department was appropriated $5 million from House Bill 1, during the second special session of the New México Legislature last month to provide emergency financial…
‘No One Should Have to Go Into Work Sick’
By Susan Dunlap Albuquerque resident Iman Andrade got worried when the pandemic began in mid-March. She delivered pizzas for a living earlier this year and the staff making and…
Senator Udall Thanks Legislative Intern María Chávez Juárez
U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) this week thanked María Chávez Juárez for her work in his Washington, D.C., office as a legislative intern. During her tenure working on Capitol Hill, Chávez Juárez…
‘This Has Got To Stop’: Uranium Contamination Continues
By Kendra Chamberlain Last week, a group of Indigenous community leaders gave presentations about the legacy of uranium mining in the state that still threatens the health and environment…
Local Farms, Small Gardens See Boost in Interest, Funding to Tackle Hunger
By Elizabeth Miller Bueno Para Todos, a small farm in Villanueva, NM, began 2020 with a hoop house and four planted areas enclosed in wooden frames raised above…
Representatives Introduce American Families United Act
Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16), Congressman Rob Woodall (GA-7) and Congressman Darren Soto (FL-9) introduced H.R. 8708, the American Families United Act. This bipartisan legislation is designed to preserve and promote family unity by amending the Immigration…