A photo essay about schools in the state’s smallest county, where students juggle wrangling with their ABCs
Government
Posted inPolitics
Women legislators fight for salaries
New Mexico is the only state where lawmakers don’t get paychecks
Posted inCriminal Justice
Charges filed against a New Mexico police officer for a fatal shooting — for the first time in nearly 10 years
A Las Cruces police officer faces a manslaughter charge for killing an unarmed Black man, allegedly over a stolen beer.
Posted inNuclear
The terrible emptiness of “Oppenheimer”
Bernice Gutierrez was eight days old when a light 10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun cracked open the predawn sky. No one in south-central New Mexico knew where it came from, or that the tiniest units of matter could be split to unleash such energy. Nor could they know that when the […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Will jail oversight be dimmed?
A proposal to alter the civilian oversight board that guides the Metropolitan Detention Center, New Mexico’s largest jail, is a tough sell for reform advocates.
Posted inEnvironment
Indigenous groups ask Supreme Court to overturn power shift
Coalition asks the court to toss out an amendment that triggered the change
