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Capacity issues may limit New Mexico’s universal child care program

Starting Nov. 1, New Mexico will offer free child care to every family in the state. There will be no fees to pay and no ...
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Yazzie/Martinez draft plan angers Indigenous education experts and advocates

Indigenous education experts and advocates are outraged over the state’s draft action plan for improving education, which they say lacks detail and fails to meaningfully incorporate community input.
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Sana Dadani

Sana Dadani is a data reporter with a master's degree in data journalism from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in ...
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‘Every day is Indigenous Peoples’ Day’: A year of joyful stories in Native communities

Children wove colorful hoops through the air as they danced in the courtyard, telling stories with the shapes they created.
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Indigenous education experts and advocates are outraged over the state’s draft action plan for improving education, which they say lacks detail and fails to meaningfully incorporate community input.
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Native students are expelled in New Mexico far more than any other group. This school district is ground zero for the disparity.

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Albuquerque’s vision for non-police first responders comes down to earth

Printed in white block letters, the question stretched across billboards around Albuquerque last summer. And it still haunts the mother of two, Elaine Maestas, who helped pay to put them up. “What if ...
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Poverty fell more than a third in New Mexico due to tax changes, but there’s more to do

The first cars arrived before dawn. By 9 a.m., vehicles snaked through the food distribution event at the state fairgrounds in Albuquerque. It was a week before Christmas, and thousands of families ...
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Gila: An unpredictable river, even in the best of times

Tucked away in the southwestern corner of New Mexico, the headwaters of the Gila River pour out of mountains remote and wild. At least five other times in the past century, officials thought about ...
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As water reaches eastern Navajo communities, it brings possibilities and homecomings

For a while, Chee Smith Jr. thought he was going to have to send his father to die among strangers. His family lives at Whitehorse Lake, a Navajo chapter where, until a few years ago, roughly 550 of ...
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Diverting the Rio Grande into a grown-over, decades-old canal could cut New Mexico’s water debt

Decades ago, Norm Gaume, a water advocate, paddler, and former director of the Interstate Stream Commission, hauled a canoe to central New Mexico, thinking he’d float down the Rio Grande through the ...