New Mexico In Depth

No silver bullet for New Mexico’s medical professional shortage

This analysis first published in our Midweek newsletter, which runs each Wednesday. Heading into the 30-day legislative ...
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Transparency on the line with new lawsuit against city of Albuquerque

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A movement in New Mexico to create an independent redistricting commission appears on life support, battered by a national battle over which political party will control the U.S. House of ...
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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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How We Investigated Death Rates for Extremely Preterm Babies in New Mexico’s Largest Maternity Hospitals

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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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AN EMERGENCY HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO – JUNE 26, 2022: A man shops in the alcohol department at a grocery store in Albuquerque. CREDIT: Adria Malcolm for New Mexico In Depth Alcohol kills New Mexicans at a higher ...
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Gila: An unpredictable river, even in the best of times

Tucked away in the southwestern corner of New Mexico, the headwaters of the Gila River pour out of mountains remote and wild. At least five other times in the past century, officials thought about ...
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Albuquerque’s vision for non-police first responders comes down to earth

Printed in white block letters, the question stretched across billboards around Albuquerque last summer. And it still haunts the mother of two, Elaine Maestas, who helped pay to put them up. “What if ...
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Diverting the Rio Grande into a grown-over, decades-old canal could cut New Mexico’s water debt

Decades ago, Norm Gaume, a water advocate, paddler, and former director of the Interstate Stream Commission, hauled a canoe to central New Mexico, thinking he’d float down the Rio Grande through the ...
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Maxeon promises solar jobs. Reality is less certain.

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 ...