Alice Fordham
ReporterAlice Fordham joined the news team in 2022 after a career as an international correspondent, reporting for NPR from the Middle East and later Latin America and Europe. She also worked as a podcast producer for The Economist among other outlets, and tries to meld a love of sound and storytelling with solid reporting on the community. She grew up in the U.K. and has a small jar of Marmite in her kitchen for emergencies.
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As some of the late governor's estate went on sale on Saturday, hundreds came to see what was left of the life of a man who in addition to being governor and a congressman was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. energy secretary and a hostage negotiator around the world.
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The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP, is available to people whose income is at or below 150% of the federal poverty level.
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The attorney general in January asked the state supreme court to strike down those local rules, and in Wednesday's hearing he argued the justices had a number of grounds to do so.
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While abortion remains legal, several more conservative local governments have passed ordinances placing restrictions on potential abortion providers.
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The Department of Homeland Security announced a process this year to allow workers who aren't citizens to report exploitative employers without fear of being deported.
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There have already been more than 350 scam calls reported this year, with businesses and residential customers both being targeted.
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Julia Bernal called for an end to business as usual and criticized some new energy technologies.
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Last fiscal year, the U.S. Forest Service conducted planned burns on just under 2 million acres, an agency record. In the wake of last year's Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon disaster, which began as prescribed fire, many in New Mexico are nervous when such burns come near their homes.
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A top strategy for preventing catastrophic wildfires is periodically burning forests under controlled conditions. The U.S. Forest Service conducted more "prescribed" fires than ever this year.
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Members of the group Jewish Voices for Peace and their supporters including YUCCA (Youth United for Climate Action) led a demonstration outside the office of Congressional Representative Melanie Stansbury in Albuquerque on Nov. 20.