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    • Girls more likely to suffer depression and suicide, CDC report finds 
      By Susan Dunlap | 23 hours ago

      According to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , girls experience persistent feelings of sadness and suicide at higher rates than boys and the trend is on an uptick.

    • Guv issues executive order to further protect abortion access in New Mexico
      By Susan Dunlap | June 28, 2022

      WASHINGTON, D.C. - Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order on Monday to protect abortion providers from extradition if other states hostile to abortion rights attempt to pursue charges against the providers.

    • Biden expands LGTBQIA+ rights in sweeping executive order
      By Susan Dunlap | June 27, 2022

      President Joe Biden signed an executive order earlier this month to expand equality for LGBTQIA+ individuals.

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    • Weather station network intended to provide some security for farmers, ranchers
      By Hannah Grover | May 2, 2022

      Government programs provide insurance for ranchers if they lose their forage crops due to lack of rain, but the scarcity of rain gauges in New Mexico has limited the usefulness of this insurance, according to legislators who secured funding to build a network of weather stations throughout the state.

    • Rail Runner funding removed from junior spending bill
      By Hannah Grover | April 6, 2022

      The Rail Runner will not be receiving $1 million to temporarily reduce fares to riders.

    Recent Posts

    • Biden amends disaster declaration for wildfire, increasing time for NM to receive federal assistance

      President Joe Biden authorized an increase in federal funds available to New Mexico in light of the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, which was sparked by U.S. Forest Service prescribed burns.

    • Abortion rights protestors rally in Washington D.C.
      Washington D.C. abortion rights rally marches to blockaded Pennsylvania Avenue

      WASHINGTON, D.C. - A group of protestors supporting abortion rights marched for about four miles from the U.S. Supreme Court building to Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. on Sunday.

    • U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, creating public health emergency

      The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade Friday morning, creating what individuals working on the front lines of reproductive access in New Mexico called a “public health emergency” during a press conference Friday afternoon.

    About Laura Paskus

    Laura Paskus has been writing about New Mexico’s natural resources and communities since 2002, as an assistant editor of High Country News, a radio producer at KUNM-FM, managing editor of Tribal College Journal and a freelancer for a variety of publications including the Santa Fe Reporter, New Mexico In Depth and Indian Country Today. Her work has also appeared in Al Jazeera America, Ms. Magazine, National Geographic Online, The Nature Conservancy Magazine, The Progressive, Columbia Journalism Review, The Mountain Gazette, Audubon and Orion. She's a correspondent for New Mexico In Focus and a graduate student in the University of New Mexico’s Geography and Environmental Studies Department.

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