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Nash Jones/KUNM NewsWith just eight weeks until Election Day, representatives from a coalition of 72 community-based organizations are traveling to small towns across the state to teach about Constitutional Amendment 4, which will be on this year’s ballot. If voters pass it this November, state lawmakers would receive a salary for the first time. -
Robert Frederick/KUNMA second of Albuquerque’s nine city council districts will start piloting participatory budgeting, a process in which community members decide how to spend part of the city’s budget.
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Following a weekend of controversy after a new police report detailing an incident at a Chicago hotel, Representative Joseph Hernandez has dropped his bid for reelection. -
A center created late last year to track guns used in shootings around the state has resulted in authorities connecting over 500 crimes. Attorney General Raúl Torrez gave an update in Gallup on Wednesday on the statewide initiative. -
New Mexico’s ranking in higher education rose two spots to 18th in the nation for higher education. That’s according to U.S. News & World Report. -
The KCRW podcast "Question Everything" explores the undercover investigation that revealed how Facebook funneled predators to the fake accounts of two underage girls. -
More than 11,000 people have been stripped of their tribal citizenship in the last two decades due to increasing casino revenues and payouts to members. A new documentary called "You’re No Indian" exposes the practice of disenrollment and its impact on tribal members. KUNM spoke with the director of the film Ryan Flynn. -
Participatory budgeting allows community members as young as age 11 to choose how to spend part of the city's budget. -
Protestors gathered outside the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Santa Fe on Wednesday on the last day for public comment on the federal agency’s proposal to remove or shrink a 10-mile buffer zone around Chaco Canyon for oil and gas drilling. -
U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) introduced two bills this week in the House to modernize the Bureau of Indian Education’s Equalization Formula and potentially bring higher teacher salaries, and more federal funding for tribal schools. -
Pueblo leaders and environmentalists are angry that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management released an environmental assessment on Wednesday with the intent of eliminating a buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park that has prevented oil and gas leasing. BLM is offering just two weeks for public comment on the report. -
The largest proposed tribal water rights settlement in U.S. history – which could transform some Native American communities – continues to stall. KUNM’s Jeanette DeDios talked about tribal water rights to the Colorado River with Heather Tanana, who is Navajo and an assistant law professor for the University of Denver, Heather Tanana, on New Mexico in Focus.
