Environment
Listen to Native America calling episode NMID helped produce
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Click on the headline to listen to the episode of Native America Calling on protecting sacred places that New Mexico In Depth helped produce.
Health
Arizona health company cuts staff in Southern NM
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La Frontera, an Arizona firm brought in last year to care for the mentally ill and those struggling with addiction across Southern New Mexico, laid off or fired 20 employees last week. According to La Frontera's CEO, about half were laid off to reduce expenses and the rest were fired for “performance issues.”
RELATED: Number of people getting behavioral health services rises, feds now say
Children
Owner of ranch for troubled youth backs off comments about Morales
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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.
Native America Project
NMID helps produce Native America Calling episode
Building off her previous reporting for New Mexico In Depth and elsewhere on efforts to preserve Mount Taylor, reporter Laura Paskus helped produce an episode of Native America Calling on preserving sacred places that airs Friday.
Legislators shaft suicide prevention programs again
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.
Commentary
Sunshine group needs to become insurgent
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.