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Amy Linn

Amy Linn has written about social issues and child well-being throughout her career, starting at the Miami Herald and including work for the Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Examiner and Bloomberg News. She was the recipient of an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to write about teenagers on death row; the resulting stories appeared in the New York Times and other publications. Amy has been an editor at Outside Magazine, Wired and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she was associate national editor. She has also freelanced for national magazines and been a case investigator for the Montana Innocence Project.

Posted inFeatured, Hitting Home

Pandemic lessons

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Amy Linn, Sara Solovitch and Kate Schimel July 13, 2021October 28, 2022

What we learned from a year of covering COVID-19’s impacts in New Mexico

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured

No defenses

Avatar photo by Amy Linn March 29, 2020July 10, 2022

New Mexico is home to 19 pueblos, 3 Apache tribes and a large swath of the Navajo Nation. How will they cope with the outbreak of COVID-19?

Posted inFull Archive

Here, there and everywhere: Avoiding PFAS

Avatar photo by Amy Linn February 19, 2019January 16, 2023

The chemicals known collectively as PFAS are in everything from dental floss to outdoor gear. But consumers can make informed choices.

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Toxic timeline: A brief history of PFAS

Avatar photo by Amy Linn February 19, 2019January 16, 2023

Research in the 1940s and ’50s led to the commercialization and widespread use of PFAS, substances that are now found in the bloodstream of almost all Americans.

Posted inEnvironment, Full Archive

Till the cows come home

Avatar photo by Amy Linn February 19, 2019July 10, 2022

Contamination of the water supply for Highland Dairy in Clovis likely means the end of operations – and raises health concerns for area residents.

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Prescription for disaster: New Mexico’s lax oversight puts kids in danger

Avatar photo by Amy Linn October 25, 2018January 16, 2023

At least 44 states have introduced formal protocols or programs to boost oversight and monitoring of psychotropic drug use by children. Yet while other states work to limit psychiatric drugs, 30,000 NM children have prescriptions.

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Warrant: Psychiatrist over-medicated hundreds of children in his care

Avatar photo by Amy Linn October 25, 2018January 16, 2023

Albuquerque doctor is under investigation in 36 patient deaths.

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Years of frustration lie behind landmark school lawsuit

Avatar photo by Amy Linn August 30, 2018July 10, 2022

For Wilhelmina Yazzie, joining the groundbreaking lawsuit against New Mexico wasn’t an easy thing to do. It was the only thing to do.

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How the Yazzie lawsuit could be a ‘game-changer’

Avatar photo by Amy Linn August 30, 2018July 10, 2022

Behind the recent ruling in the New Mexico school funding lawsuit is nearly a decade of evidence that the state’s public schools are not only failing children, but that children will be “irreparably harmed” if schools aren’t improved.

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Brain Drain: Graduates leaving New Mexico behind

Avatar photo by Amy Linn July 5, 2018July 10, 2022

No state can afford to lose high-quality, educated workers, the key ingredient for a thriving economy.

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