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Nonprofit Says Executive Order Will Widen Housing Gaps in NM

By Myah Wilmarth | August 8, 2025

8.8.25 – In July, Trump signed an executive order directing two federal agencies to shift their resources away from housing and instead towards forced mental…

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How the EPA’s Delay of Methane Regulations Would Spur Air Pollution

By Myah Wilmarth | August 8, 2025

8.8.25 – Camilla Feibelman, director of the local chapter of the Sierra Club, and Ben Shelton, deputy secretary of the state’s Energy, Minerals, and Natural…

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Journalist and Author’s New Book on Dangers of ‘Forever Chemicals’

By Myah Wilmarth | August 8, 2025

8.8.25 – Investigative journalist and author Mariah Blake has spent years reporting on the ways PFAS, commonly referred to as forever chemicals, have posed a…

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EPA Proposes Rolling Back Greenhouse Gas Regulations

By Myah Wilmarth | August 8, 2025

8.8.25 – Late last month, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed rescinding the “endangerment finding” — an Obama-era addition to the Federal Clean Air…

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Santa Fe Archbishop on Treating Immigrants with Compassion

By Myah Wilmarth | August 1, 2025

8.1.25 – In July, Catholic leaders in San Bernardino, California encouraged their immigrant parishioners to skip mass if they fear possible detention of deportation from…

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Somos Un Pueblo Unido Helps Immigrants Under Trump Crackdown

By Myah Wilmarth | August 1, 2025

8.1.25 – Marcela Diaz is the founding executive director of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, an immigrant-led workers’ rights organization. Senior Producer Lou DiVizio asks Diaz…

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Formerly Undocumented State Senator on Trump’s Immigration Policy

By Myah Wilmarth | August 1, 2025

8.1.25 – Elected in 2024, state Sen. Cindy Nava, D-Bernalillo, became one of the first former DACA recipients to hold public office. Nash recently sat…

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ABQ City Councilor Calls for Cooperation with ICE

By Myah Wilmarth | August 1, 2025

8.1.25 – In July, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller signed an executive order reaffirming and expanding the city’s immigrant-friendly ordinance enacted in 2018. Albuquerque City Councilor…

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Nonprofit Advocates for Asylum Seekers in NM Private Prison

By Myah Wilmarth | August 1, 2025

8.1.25 – Cibola County Correctional Center is one of three prisons in New Mexico that holds immigrants for ICE — US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.…

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Santa Fe Archbishop Wester on RECA, Nuclear Weapons

By Myah Wilmarth | July 25, 2025

7.25.25 – Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester, who prayed at that event for peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons. Wester recently stopped by…

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Should Taxpayer Dollars Return to Public Broadcasting?

By Myah Wilmarth | July 25, 2025

7.25.25 – Two local opinion columnists return to debate whether national Republicans were right to strip funding from over 1,500 local and national public television…

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Flood Recovery in Ruidoso

By Myah Wilmarth | July 25, 2025

7.25.25 – We head to Ruidoso just days after deadly flooding hit the area. Reporter Cailley Chella visited the village last week and found residents,…