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State Ethics Commission sues Apodaca’s dark money operation
The State Ethics Commission on Friday sued a dark money group and its president, Jeff Apodaca, to force disclosure of the sources behind the money paying for political advertising in support of legislative candidates running in the June 4 primary election. The New Mexico Project registered as a domestic nonprofit...
Indigenous advocates call for more education on domestic and sexual violence
Tribal leaders need to push for more education within their communities about domestic violence and sexual assault, from consistent training for police to classes on healthy relationships for young people. That’s one of the main recommendations to emerge from this week’s annual summit organized by the Coalition to Stop Violence...
Arrested journalist is one of New Mexico’s finest investigative reporters
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Ivey-Soto campaign mail featured photo that includes one of his accusers
Three-term Democratic state senator Daniel Ivey-Soto already faces a stiff headwind in his bid to win re-election. His campaign might have made his quest harder when one of its fliers hit mailboxes Saturday and Monday. At the top-left corner of one of the photos in the campaign literature stands a...
Senators throw support to embattled Ivey-Soto
Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto is running for a fourth term despite the state Democratic Party’s decision to censure and sever ties with him over sexual harassment and assault allegations, many of which were made by advocates of liberal causes. A spokesperson for the party confirmed last week the party has...
Statement from New Mexico reporter about his arrest at UNM encampment protest
The following statement is from Bryant Furlow, an independent investigative journalist who regularly partners with New Mexico In Depth, about his arrest yesterday during a police action on the University of New Mexico’s main campus to clear a student Gaza solidarity encampment. “Thank you to all the media who...
Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of Homeless People, Violating City Policy
New Mexico In Depth co-published this story produced by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive their stories in your inbox every week. On a recent morning, Christian Smith ran an errand, leaving a...
Apodaca dark money group funded in part by oil and gas
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Democratic lawmaker defends campaign spending
Democrat State Rep. Ambrose Castellano in interviews justified expensing a trip to Hawaii, new vehicle tires and restaurant tabs of more than $1,000 to his campaign as not only allowable but necessary to perform his legislative and political duties. Castellano’s defense comes in response to the campaign of his primary...
Indigenous midwives and doulas provide critical support to maternal health
Aspen Mirabal has traveled across Northern New Mexico working with women during pregnancy, birth and postpartum. A member of Taos Pueblo, her work as a doula focuses on ensuring Indigenous women deliver safely in and out of hospitals. “Sometimes clients don’t know how to advocate for themselves if this is...
Big money flows to most powerful lawmakers
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Progressives going after incumbents in hot Democratic primaries
It’s a safe bet Democrats will barrel into 2025 with their supremacy intact at the New Mexico Legislature. Barring an unexpected shock during this year’s elections, Democrats’ stranglehold on power is assured. Going into the 2024 contests, Democrats control nearly two-thirds of all seats in the House...
Many New Mexico voters lack choices in legislative races
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Politicos who remove journalists from public events disrespect democracy
Over the weekend our former colleague, Sandra Fish, was kicked out of the Colorado statewide GOP assembly for doing her job. Sandra works for the Colorado nonprofit news organization, the Colorado Sun, which has gotten crosswise with the chairman of Colorado’s Republican party for fair but hard-hitting journalism. Her ejection has generated national headlines.
New wildfire defense grant program at a snail’s pace as fire season looms
Kim Wright has spent hundreds of hours on the phone with neighbors. Wright, a retired nurse, volunteers with the Cimarron Watershed Alliance, a nonprofit focused on watershed and forest health on the eastern edge of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The 2022 Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon fire made the fears of a catastrophic fire feel all the more real. So when she learned a year ago that the federal government was awarding more than $8 million to the alliance to help nine northern New Mexico communities better defend themselves against wildfire, she said, “We couldn’t believe it. We were so excited.”
Assisted living facilities are the new nursing homes. Oversight falls short.
In July 2022, a partially paralyzed and “nearly bedridden” 75-year-old man in a wheelchair fell in his bathroom at Albuquerque Uptown Assisted Living, fracturing his hip, according to court filings. But instead of staff immediately calling an ambulance for the man, who “required assistance in all aspects of...
Couy Griffin is history. Disinformation is not.
With all the hand wringing focused on the twin threats of misinformation and disinformation this election year, the country got welcome news Monday: Couy Griffin can’t ever hold public office in New Mexico again. That’s thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting Griffin’s request to lift a lifetime ban on holding office placed on him by a New Mexico state district judge.
New Mexico AG greenlights new task force, creates online portal for missing Indigenous people
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit and Transgender People (MMIWG2T). Attorney General Raúl Torrez plans to establish a task force focused on the disproportionate rates at which Indigenous people experience...
Attorney general gets funding for proposed missing and murdered Indigenous people task force
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit and Transgender People (MMIWG2T). Attorney General Raúl Torrez will have $200,000 at his disposal to create a new task force focused on the disproportionate...
New Mexico AG going after social media companies
This is an exerpt of New Mexico In Depth’s mid-week newsletter that went out Wednesday, Feb. 28. We think it’s crucial to stay in touch and tell you what’s on our minds every week. Our newsletters aim to do just that. We’d like to hear what’s on your mind, as well. Or, got tips? What do we need to know? Contact us: [email protected]
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