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WEBIt’s unclear. It is unclear who is on a state advisory council on missing and murdered Indigenous people announced nearly eight months ago by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham amid upset over her decision to disband a task force focused on the crisis. A story New Mexico In Depth published Friday about the council meeting behind closed doors ...
Three years after attack, urban Indian population remains …
WEBNov 8, 2017 · The daylong Albuquerque hearing, which focused on law enforcement, was one of several the commission has held documenting acts of violence, discrimination and bias in New Mexico border towns in the three years since Thompson and Gorman were brutally murdered. The others were in Farmington, Aztec, Bloomfield, Cortez, Gallup, Grants and …
Money for abandoned uranium mine cleanup spurs questions …
WEBApr 5, 2022 · An online interactive map maintained by New Mexico’s Mining and Minerals department pinpoints abandoned uranium sites in the Grants Mineral Belt, which was a booming uranium region until the mid-1980s. The area stretched from Laguna Pueblo almost to Gallup in New Mexico’s northwest checkerboard region. (New Mexico Mining and Minerals/Google Earth) A vast landscape in the Grants mineral ...
Maxeon promises solar jobs. Reality is less certain.
WEBAug 19, 2024 · On a vast shrubby mesa in Southeast Albuquerque, local politicians and developers for years have envisioned a master-planned urban community with more than 10,000 homes in close proximity to a jobs center with high-tech factories, film production facilities, and retail businesses. They named the development Mesa del Sol. After fits and starts over several decades, […]
Scaled back probation, parole reforms advancing in Legislature
WEBFeb 5, 2020 · By Jeff Proctor, New Mexico In Depth | February 5, 2020. A legislative effort to reform parts of New Mexico’s probation and parole systems is limping along as lawmakers near the halfway mark of this year’s 30-day session. House Bill 263, with a large group of sponsors from both parties, is meant primarily to decrease the …
Remembering the largest radioactive spill in U.S. history
WEBJul 7, 2014 · But the largest spill of radioactive material in the United States happened three and half months after Three Mile Island and several thousands of miles west of Pennsylvania. July 16 will mark the 35th anniversary of the day in 1979 when a dam on the Navajo Nation near Church Rock, N.M., broke at an …
Native advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous people …
WEBFeb 23, 2023 · Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s appointment of a former San Ildefonso Pueblo governor to lead the state’s Indian Affairs Department could be in peril as members of the state’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives Task Force, and a Navajo state senator, say they will fight his nomination. The appointment of James R. Mountain to […]
Indigenous Affairs – New Mexico In Depth
WEBAttorney General Raúl Torrez will have $200,000 at his disposal to create a new task force focused on the disproportionate rates at which Indigenous people experience violence and go missing. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham kept the funding allocated by lawmakers in the $10.2 billion state budget she approved today.
Most New Mexico college students struggle with unstable housing …
WEBAug 27, 2024 · Nicole Pelt is on track to be the first person in her family to graduate college. The 20-year-old Diné student is in her senior year at the University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque campus. She chose Native American Studies as a major because she wanted to learn about potential solutions to the impacts of colonization, like […]
State contracts may be added to Sunshine Portal
WEBFeb 26, 2015 · Scanned copies of all state contracts should be available on the Sunshine Portal, say two lawmakers who are proposing an update to the state transparency website. Posting original documents would give New Mexicans a bigger window into state contracts, something that’s important to business owners, says one of the bill’s sponsors, Sen. Sander Rue, R-Albuquerque.