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The owner of a controversial youth ranch program is dialing down comments about a gubernatorial candidate’s role in helping the ranch during the recent legislative session.
A federal agency said in December that the number of New Mexicans receiving behavioral health services dropped 23 percent after last year's Medicaid freeze. The agency now says there's actually been a 16 percent increase.
One of the five Arizona companies brought in last year by New Mexico to care for the mentally ill and those struggling with addiction will cut hundreds of employees' salaries and reduce other costs beginning next week.
The 2014 session of the New Mexico Legislature ended today with lawmakers once again failing to fund suicide prevention programs tailored to Native American youth.
The $6.2 billion budget bill the New Mexico Senate approved Thursday evening doesn't include funding for culturally-based suicide prevention programs focused on Native American youth.
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(UPDATED WITH VIDEO) NMID's Heath Haussamen participated in Thursday's forum at New Mexico State University on the 2013 Medicaid freeze. Here's coverage of the event.
COMMENTARY: The state's leading transparency group considered giving the governor and attorney general its top award even as it prepared to sue them for keeping an audit secret. That's ludicrous, and it's indicative of changes the organization needs to make.