March 26, 2019
In hot water: The dangerous side of a renewable energy project
by Lauren VillagranFormer Staff Reporter
From the outset, local residents had questioned Cyrq’s assertion that it could pump geothermal water from thousands of feet down and reinject it at similar depths without tainting the shallow, freshwater aquifer. Like many places in New Mexico, the health of the local farm and ranch economy is rooted to the water. So are the lives of the scattered people who live in the Animas Basin.
January 30, 2019
Borders without doctors
by Lauren VillagranFormer Staff Reporter
Medical services are hard to come by in the sparsely settled Bootheel region, where more and more migrants are arriving in need of care.
January 30, 2019
Answering the call
by Lauren VillagranFormer Staff Reporter
Lonnie Briseño is a deacon in the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces and organizer of Project Oak Tree, a three-year-old effort that unites faith-based organizations to aid migrants in southern New Mexico.
January 30, 2019
Open doors and open arms
by Lauren VillagranFormer Staff Reporter
As migrants seeking asylum are released from ICE facilities, they are finding temporary shelter in southern New Mexico churches.
November 29, 2018
Fever pitch
by Lauren VillagranFormer Staff Reporter
Bitter competition between Presbyterian and UNM has meant kids who need specialized care are getting sent out of state — instead of to the competitor. Now the hospitals are finally talking about a partnership.
October 31, 2018
Governor-driven understaffing keeps N.M.’s kids at risk
by Lauren VillagranFormer Staff Reporter
Ushered into office on a conservative wave that swept statehouses around the country, Martinez espoused classic Republican views on small government and fiscal conservatism. Eight years on, she can truthfully say she has kept state government lean.
October 10, 2018
Foreign teachers pay dearly to fill jobs in New Mexico
by Lauren VillagranFormer Staff Reporter
More than 200 foreign teachers are risking their financial security for an opportunity to work in public schools.
August 23, 2018
College-focused charter network eyes New Mexico
by Lauren VillagranFormer Staff Reporter
EL PASO, Texas – The kindergarteners of IDEA Edgemere walked quietly single-file down the hall, their uniforms embroidered with the school logo, left hands behind their backs, right fingers over their lips. Shh. Emblazoned on the wall above their heads, a sign read: “We do whatever it takes.”
July 10, 2018
New Mexico lawyer faces death threat over work for immigrants
by Lauren VillagranFormer Staff Reporter
What happened to Allegra Love and her colleagues, experts say, is a terrifying example of the open threats and unrelenting hostility that immigrant advocates have begun to face nationwide.
June 2, 2018
30 Million Words
by Lauren VillagranFormer Staff Reporter
Pensacola, Fla., became one of the country’s first cities to dub itself an “Early Learning City.” With leadership from the business community, it linked up with the University of Chicago’s Thirty Million Words project to educate new parents on how to build their child’s brain — a project that could hold lessons for New Mexico.
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