Daniel Montaño
Public Health ReporterDaniel Montaño is a reporter with KUNM's Public Health, Poverty and Equity project. He is also an occasional host of Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Let's Talk New Mexico since 2021, is a born and bred Burqueño who first started with KUNM about two decades ago, as a production assistant while he was in high school. During the intervening years, he studied journalism at UNM, lived abroad, fell in and out of love, conquered here and there, failed here and there, and developed a taste for advocating for human rights.
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New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez said he was "forced" to sue the U.S. Department of Justice after it failed to provide unredacted files and documents to assist with the state's investigation into alleged crimes at the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's former Zorro Ranch. -
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is suing the state’s Children, Youth and Families Department after reports CYFD dropped off a fifteen-year-old boy to the Mexican border and told him to cross on his own against his will to reunite with his estranged mother. -
New Mexico's tribal leaders and the entire federal congressional delegation urged residents to make their voice heard to help protect Chaco Canyon, an UNESCO world heritage site, from drilling and mining during what Sen. Ben Ray Lujan called "one of the shortest" public comment windows he has seen for a law that would rollback protections around the historically and culturally significant ancient ruins. -
New Mexico's congressional delegation are working to make it easier for the Attorney general's office to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's time in New Mexico by passing a new law, the Esptien Files Transparency Act II, and by securing a promise from the potential future Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, to provide files and evidence from another Epstein investigation. -
DoorDash officials presented to state lawmakers Tuesday about their autonomous, bike-lane-using delivery vehicle, Dot, and how they want to introduce the service to New Mexico. They provided a model law to legislators and suggested certain rules, such as a $100,000 insurance requirement per robot. -
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sent a letter to federal officials demanding immediate access to the unredacted Epstein files, and that he has not ruled out legal action if necessary. -
For the second year, almost half of New Mexico residents — 42% — are living below what United Way calls their survival budget. The second annual ALICE report was just released, highlighting the group of people who make too much money for assistance, but not enough to pay for everything they need every month. -
In the wake of new federal data about food benefits — which could potentially cost New Mexico hundreds of millions of dollars — advocates at New Mexico Voices for Children urged the public to remember the newly released state error rates should not be mistaken for fraud rates. -
Opponents of the proposed Acquisition of PNM's parent company, TXNM Energy, by Blackstone infrastructure got a big win Thursday when the New Mexico Public regulation Commission voted to reverse a $400 million sale of stock in TXNM to Blackstone that occurred after the acquisition was announced. Regulators said the companies violated state law when they did not seek approval for the stock sale. The overall acquisition is scheduled for a hearing in August. -
At a Monday press conference Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said overdoses increased when the federal agency allowed narcotics into communities.
