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Federal cuts to food assistance through the budget reconciliation bill, better known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” put more than 450,000 New Mexicans at risk seeing their benefits drop by more than 20%, or losing their assistance altogether. But, state officials say they’ll do everything they can to fill gaps left by those federal cuts.
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A lawsuit seeking to restore millions of dollars in grant funding that was stripped from humanities councils across the country will move forward after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in the case earlier this month.
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The one “Big Beautiful Bill Act,” also known as H.R. 1, was enacted last month and will have serious impacts on clean energy and its affordability in 2026. Those will include New Mexico families, who already face high energy cost burdens.
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Housing expert with the Pew charitable Trusts, Alex Horowitz, gave a presentation to lawmakers Tuesday about New Mexico’s housing shortage, and possible solutions that have already been proven in several other states.
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A few years have passed since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but researchers estimate millions of people are still living with the effects of long COVID. The Keystone Symposia on ‘Long COVID and Other Post-Acute Infection Syndromes’ will kick off this Sunday in Santa Fe, bringing in researchers from across the world to discuss issues like diagnostic procedures and clinical trial design.
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A new report looking at each state’s rates of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, better known as COPD, shows New Mexico has seen some of the biggest decreases in the nation over a five-year period, dropping from 6.3% in 2018 to 5% in 2023, and the highest drop in men's rates of the disease.
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The New Mexico Department of Health is offering free vaccinations to children 18 years and under at locations across the state until the end of August. The program is intended to get kids protected, and make sure they meet school vaccination requirements as they head back to the classroom for a new year.
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Researchers at the University of New Mexico are preparing to launch a phase 1 clinical trial for an Alzheimer's vaccine after receiving $1 million from the Alzheimer’s Association.
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A new executive director for Healthcare Services has taken the reins at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center, and she’ll be taking on huge budget overages when it comes to inmate health care. Using traveling nurses to cover inmates' needs is costing the jail millions of dollars.
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Reporter Jerry Redfern of Capital and Main describes his reporting the abandoned oil wells that some people are using as a water source.
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The City of Albuquerque is looking to make it easier to establish Safe Outdoor Spaces for people living on the streets by changing a few key ordinances. Only one space has been opened so far, which is located at New Creations Church in the International District.
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