Megan Myscofski
ReporterMegan Myscofski is a reporter with KUNM's Poverty and Public Health Project.
She previously worked as a Business and Economics Reporter at Arizona Public Media, where she also reported, produced and hosted a narrative podcast, Tapped, on the cost of drought in Arizona. Before that, she was a reporter and host at Montana Public Radio and an intern on the podcast "Threshold". Her first audio journalism internship was in Essen, Germany as a high school exchange student.
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The New Mexico Black Leadership Council is asking Albuquerque residents to shop local and at Black-owned businesses this year. The council’s end-of-year newsletter features local operations and ideas for holiday shopping. -
After every Thanksgiving meal, there’s a big kitchen cleanup to follow. Whether you have a light bit of old cooking oil or a whole vat from deep frying a turkey, you shouldn’t discard it down the kitchen drain.
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A lot of great food is about to grace tables across New Mexico for Thanksgiving, but the prep work involved can lead to fires or food poisoning, if you’re not careful.
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There’s a new children’s book to help kids understand a genetic disease that disproportionately affects New Mexicans. “Biscochito” tells the story of a grandmother with Cerebral Cavernomas baking the state cookie with her grandson.
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This week, the Albuquerque City Council rejected a move to make it easier to create safe outdoor spaces for people experiencing homelessness. This comes in the wake of an injunction from a judge to create more indoor shelter space for folks on the street. The injunction also limits clearing of encampments, as well as jails and fines for people sleeping outside.One city councilor says the city could have responded to the injunction with additional safe spaces and it needs to do more.
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New Mexico is poised to receive $10.5 million from the U.S. Justice Department for domestic violence and sexual assault prevention. The money will go to two Pueblo governments, as well as 15 organizations through the Violence Against Women Act and the Victims of Crime Act.
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Santa Fe residents will vote next week on whether or not to adopt a mansion tax or an excise tax on buyers of homes over $1 million. The tax would add 3% on the amount a buyer pays over $1 million. So, if a home costs $1.1 million, the buyer would pay $3,000. That money would then go to the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund.KUNM’s Megan Myscofski sat down with Santa Fe mayor Alan Webber and Office of Affordable Housing Director Alexandra Ladd who says this will make the money the city puts into affordable housing more consistent by diversifying it.
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A University of New Mexico project that supports rural healthcare providers is taking on a new topic – violence prevention. The new training program is aimed at health professionals as well as legal personnel and educators.
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A month and a half after Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a public health executive order regarding gun violence and illegal drug use, the outcome for young people who are arrested remains unclear.The order suspends a set of guidelines for helping keep young people out of detention that have been in place for about a quarter of a century. But officials are still using those guidelines in New Mexico, even as more young people are put in detention centers.
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For many, the day began so early on the Saturday morning that it was still dark as they set up lawn chairs and rolled out blankets as the last stars twinkled above a drone show.
