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NM governor shares draft proposal for forced mental health treatment ‘Please slow this down,’ pleads disability rights advocate sourcenm.com/2024/06/27/n...
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Today’s updates on the NM wildfires shows 11 people remain missing; sourcenm.com/2024/06/25/a... How people can access food aid sourcenm.com/briefs/state... Unemployment benefits sourcenm.com/2024/06/25/o... Dispel looting rumors sourcenm.com/2024/06/25/n...
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NM joins three states to begin voluntary testing for bird flu in dairy farm milk tanks sourcenm.com/2024/06/25/n...
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Dispatch records show a cluster of fires reported in a small area between June 16-18 including two that became the #SaltFire and #SouthForkFire A @source_nm review shows no lightning strikes in the area for over a week before then. More here: buff.ly/3RGDdKf #nmfire
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The latest in the South Fork and Salt Fires in SE New Mexico sourcenm.com/2024/06/18/o...
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Santa Ana Pueblo takes back ancestral land, declares conservation efforts, trespassing enforcement ‘The elk have returned, the deer has returned, the antelope have returned, the bobcats, the mountain lions have returned. They’re not competing for the grass anymore.’ sourcenm.com/2024/06/13/s...
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Driver who accelerated into a demonstration in March identified as 2018 candidate for NM governor Dark money group founder Jeff Apodaca admits he drove the truck at the Palestinian solidarity protest in Albuquerque, saying he was fearful at the time sourcenm.com/2024/05/31/d...
Driver who accelerated into a demonstration identified as 2018 candidate for NM governor • Source New Mexicosourcenm.com Over the course of six weeks, Source New Mexico conducted separate interviews with 11 eyewitnesses, and reviewed videos and photographs.
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Albuquerque forces thousands out of encampments each year. In 2024 the city is on pace to remove 6,000 encampments where unhoused people live and leave their belongings. City employees typically trash personal items in garbage trucks, violating policy. sourcenm.com/2024/05/20/a...
Albuquerque is throwing out the belongings of homeless people, violating city policy • Source New Mexicosourcenm.com On a recent morning, Christian Smith ran an errand, leaving a shopping cart carrying everything she owned near the Albuquerque, New Mexico, underpass where she’d been sleeping.
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Navajo leaders outraged after a Lakota student’s tribal regalia was removed at graduation; New Mexico officials trying to sort out if 2021 law should have prevented incident at the Farmington High School graduation buff.ly/3K81Ueu
Navajo leaders outraged after a Lakota student’s tribal regalia was removed at graduation • Source New Mexicobuff.ly Graduation season is typically a time for celebrating the success of students making it through their education programs.
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For this second piece reporter Austin Fisher spoke to several lawyers on background and spent weeks trying to reach Jonathan Mitchell and Mark Lee Dickson. Dickson finally contacted him back yesterday after the first story published. sourcenm.com/2024/03/05/e...
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Two local legal experts said it’s highly unusual for someone from outside of New Mexico to come in and dictate the terms of a draft ordinance. The ordinances vary, but all would restrict abortion access based on the now-infamous Comstock Act of 1873. Via @sourcenm.com @statesnewsroom.com
Experts react to emails showing Clovis and Hobbs officials handing...www.newsfromthestates.com Ordinances that could restrict abortion care passed by New Mexico municipalities likely originated over the eastern state line in Texas, according to emails obtained through public records requests.
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New Mexico residents, whose property and livelihoods were destroyed by a 2022 wildfire accidentally triggered by the U.S. government, have become reluctant students of forest management and evacuation, disaster aid and bureaucracy, trauma and resiliency. Via @sourcenm.com @propublica.bsky.social
They lost everything in New Mexico’s biggest wildfire. Now they�...www.newsfromthestates.com Survivors of the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire have lessons for the rest of the country. These residents, whose property and livelihoods were destroyed by a wildfire accidentally triggered by the U.S....
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Abortion rights opponents in Texas dictated terms and pressured officials in New Mexico municipalities to pass ordinances restricting clinics, according to public records — potentially as part of a bigger legal strategy. sourcenm.com/2024/03/04/t...
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Those who grew up near the 1945 Trinity atomic test and New Mexico mine workers are keeping up the fight to recognize and compensate victims of America’s nuclear testing program. A mult-state collab with newsroom across the country Read the @sourcenm.com contribution sourcenm.com/2024/01/09/t...