New Mexicans on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to limit the role of money in judges’ decisions about which defendants stay locked up and which go free before trial. According to unofficial election results from the New Mexico Secretary of State’s website, roughly 87 percent, or 610,000 of 699,000 New Mexicans supported a change to the state constitution aimed at reforming the use of commercial bail.
Poverty
Storefront Lenders Block Rate Caps in House Committee
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Storefront lenders scored a win Tuesday in Santa Fe when the House Business and Employment Committee unanimously voted to block an effort to ask New Mexicans to vote on whether to cap interest rates on installment loans this November.
Poverty
History, geography cramp brick-and-mortar food options in Crownpoint
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Crownpoint, N.M. is a tough place to start a business. In part, because aspiring entrepreneurs confront a tangle of challenges.
Children
Commentary: ‘Be the person who doesn’t hold back from this’
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If I learned one thing from the young people I’ve met while reporting this project, it’s that my daughter needs me to listen without judgment, forsaking the temptation to give advice or prattle on about my own childhood experiences.
Children
Parenting, communication and compassion help prevent suicide
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The New Mexico Suicide Prevention Coalition’s Laura Harrison has some tips for talking about suicide and loss.
Children
Caring, understanding help combat youth suicide
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Coloradas Mangas works to prevent suicide in Mescalero. Instead of asking for more money to help kids choose life, he asks people to care, to help, to let our children know we’re here for them.
Children
Silence can be deadly
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Studies show that talking about suicidal thoughts reduces the risk of a young person acting on those thoughts.
Children
Confronting a long tradition of silence
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This taboo of speaking about death is common among New Mexico’s tribal communities. Some people in and around Thoreau are pushing to change that after as many as 15 young people died by suicide in 2010.
Children
Editor’s note
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While it might not seem like it from reading headlines day-in, day-out, the heart of journalism beats with hope. It is with that hope that NMID offers this series in a spirit of both humility and gratitude.
Children
Native American youth face higher suicide risk
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New Mexico’s Native American youth die by suicide at a rate twice as high as that seen among people of other ethnicities. And our analysis suggests that official databases underestimate the true number of lives lost.
Poverty
NM In Focus takes on payday lending at the Roundhouse
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Watch this segment from NMID’s media partner KNME and its public affairs show, New Mexico In Focus.