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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State officials, lawyers and executives met in Santa Fe Thursday to discuss the legality of a $400 million stock sale involving the Public Service Company of New Mexico’s parent company and the private equity firm seeking to acquire it. Meanwhile in Albuquerque, about 100 people rallied in front of PNM’s headquarters to protest that very acquisition. -
More New Mexicans on Medicaid are using more behavioral health services more often, and that’s driven up costs for the state. From 2023 to 2025, managed care organizations like Blue Cross Blue Shield and Presbyterian charged for an additional $230 million dollars in behavioral health services. That’s an increase of about 47%, every dollar of which was paid for by the state’s Medicaid program. -
Here in New Mexico, we've managed to avoid the rotavirus cases that have been surging across the country. Kids have been hospitalized and health providers have said this year’s spike is concerning. Experts lay at least partial blame on declining vaccination rates elsewhere, but in the Land of Enchanment our vaccination rates have increased. -
Folks opposed to a gas station at a key intersection in Albuquerque won a crucial victory recently when city officials denied a conditional use approval for a proposed new Maverik location at Carlisle Boulevard and Indian School Road. -
The big red arrow at the corner of Carlisle Boulevard and Indian School Road might be the site of a new Maverik fuel stop if a coalition of neighborhood associations don’t get their way. They say it benefits interstate traffic and Maverik executives in Utah, while leaving the neighborhood to deal with pollution and dangerous traffic. -
New Mexicans should prepare for a historic heat wave peaking this weekend. On Tuesday, the New Mexico Department of Health issued a warning advising residents to look out for signs of heat illness as the temperature jumps to levels the National Weather Service said usually arrive just before June. -
In honor of International Women’s Day on Sunday, hundreds of protesters caravanned nearly 50 miles from Albuquerque to Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch, demanding justice and accountability for survivors of gender-based and sexual violence. The very next day, the protesters got a partial answer when investigators entered the property. -
The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission will soon decide whether or not the private equity firm Blackstone Infrastructure will acquire PNM’s parent company. The proposed $11.5 billion acquisition of the Public Service Company of New Mexico has drawn fierce resistance. This week on Let’s Talk New Mexico we’re talking to the players at the center of the whole debate, and we’d love to hear from you! Email letstalk@kunm.org, leave a voice message by clicking the link below, or call in live at (505) 277-5866 Thursday morning at 9. -
Hundreds of protesters caravanned to, and held a rally at, Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch south of Santa Fe Sunday in honor of International Women’s Day. -
Almost 200 people turned out last Monday night at Albuquerque’s Bataan Memorial Park to protest the strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran. Speakers addressed the crowd, who waved signs at passing motorists along Lomas Boulevard as the sun dropped below the horizon.
