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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Just hours after President Biden announced Sunday he will be dropping out of the race for President in 2024, KUNM hit the streets to get reactions from Albuquerque Locals. -
The only bill passed by legislators in the special session in part gives courts $3 million to continue funding pilot programs for assisted outpatient treatment programs, rather than completely updating the law to include widespread involuntary treatment. -
During the Second in a series of meetings seeking public input on how to spend millions of dollars in opioid settlement funds, community members pushed local lawmakers and politicians to listen to experts and healthcare providers when developing solutions to the opioid crisis. -
Albuquqerque's Human Rights Board has been much more active over the recent months than it has been in the preceeding years, passing resolutions, advising the city's government to update laws and hosting public hearings for the first time in nearly 50 years. They said they don't plan on slowing down anytime soon. -
After an assassination attempt on Former President Donald Trump left two people injured and two people dead including the shooter, Albuquerque Locals gave their reactions on Saturday night mere hours after the shooting. -
Another round of flooding Wednesday struck the small southern New Mexico village of Ruidoso, after flooding forced the evacuation of more than 170 people, and 64 swiftwater rescues on Tuesday, and more floods could be on the way. -
As millions in opioid settlement funds come into the city of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, officials are seeking input on how to spend them. In the first of several meetings Tuesday, community leaders made it clear that change needs to happen fast. -
Bernalillo County and the City of Albuquerque are seeking public input on how to spend opioid settlement funds in a series of meetings that kick off Tuesday night. -
Outgoing County Manager Julie Morgas Baca was honored at Tuesday's County Commission meeting with an official proclamation, gifts and a standing ovation after her final State of the County address. -
Cindy Chavez was selected to lead Bernalillo County as its new manager, after a 3-2 vote by the commission.
