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NM news desert grows with closure of longtime Gallup newspaper

February 3, 2026
Front page of a newspaper announces that "The Independent" is folding after 62 years, with a photo of the newspaper's building and related headlines about its closure.

by Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico This story was originally published at Source New Mexico, a NMPBS partner. The Gallup Independent, the longtime newspaper serving a town of 20,000 on the border of the Navajo Nation, published its final issue Saturday due in part to what publisher Bob Zollinger described as an economic “collapse” in…

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ACLU-NM sues over detention of DACA recipient held in New Mexico ICE detention center

September 5, 2025
Two men walk down a brightly lit hallway labeled “Food Service”; two more people stand at the end of the hall near a door.

by Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico This story was originally published at Source New Mexico, a NMPBS partner. A 28-year-old father of four with longstanding legal deportation protections is being held in New Mexico’s largest immigration detention center without cause, according to a lawsuit filed recently in New Mexico federal court. Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira…

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