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Alice Fordham

@AliceFordham

Reporter @KUNMNews in New Mexico Also @NPR @EconomistPods @FT @guardianaudio @outsidemagazine. She/her.

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📊From @KUNMnews & @AliceFordham: As federal cuts loom, lawmakers discuss drawing on reserves and making cuts #nmleg #nmpol kunm.org/local-news/2025-03-… – at Santa Fe, NM
As federal cuts loom, lawmakers discuss drawing on reserves and making cuts

As federal cuts loom, lawmakers discuss drawing on reserves and making cuts

An initial estimate finds that the state could lose more than $1 billion in Medicaid funding, and many other agencies and entities like universities would be affected.

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Just before this year's legislative session, a secretive group emerged to fight against proposals to cap attorney's fees and other malpractice reforms. Who is New Mexico Safety Over Profit? searchlightnm.org/dark-money…
The dark money group fighting medical malpractice reform | Searchlight New Mexico

The dark money group fighting medical malpractice reform | Searchlight New Mexico

They work to influence legislation. They keep their funding secret. Who is New Mexico Safety Over Profit?

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📺From @KUNMnews & @AliceFordham: New Mexico's public media threatened by Trump cuts #nmleg #nmpol kunm.org/local-news/2025-02-… – at Santa Fe, NM
New Mexico's public media threatened by Trump cuts

New Mexico's public media threatened by Trump cuts

The president wants to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports public radio and television stations including rural and tribal outlets.

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For years I reported about enforced disappearances in #Syria … the missing … the suffering of their families. Today I was in #Sednaya prison watching the families hang on to false hope. I saw the execution room. Unimaginable horrors. I can’t sleep youtu.be/YqeTeD8jxsc?si=Rp_H…
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Nash Jones@nashjonesnews15 Nov 2024
Some #goodnews out of #NM this week. Freshman college enrollment is up 10% from last year, now higher than pre-pandemic in 2019. Meanwhile enrollment is down 5% nationwide. NM Higher Ed Sec says it’s bc of tuition-free college Opportunity Scholarship. kunm.org/local-news/2024-11-…
New Mexico sees nearly 10% more first-year college students, bucking national trend

New Mexico sees nearly 10% more first-year college students, bucking national trend

While enrollment of first-year college students dropped nationwide this year, New Mexico’s numbers are actually on the rise. The state Higher Education Department announced Wednesday that nearly 10%...

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Dan Boyd@DanBoydNM7 Nov 2024
For the first time in state history, women will make up a majority at the #NM Legislature come January. Based on election results, 60 of the 112 legislative seats will be held by women: abqjournal.com/election/firs… via @ABQJournal @fabflutist2716 #nmpol
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Dan Boyd@DanBoydNM4 Nov 2024
Happy election eve from Santa Fe!
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I wrote this story in October last year, when cross-border fighting first began and it wasn't yet full war. Ali Sweid's house had just been destroyed. Today, his son Wiam - a Lebanese army sergeant -was killed in an Israeli strike while on his motorbike. thenationalnews.com/mena/pal…
Disparate south Lebanon border towns prepare for possible war with Israel | The National

Disparate south Lebanon border towns prepare for possible war with Israel | The National

Residents of some villages say they have been caught in the crossfire between Hezbollah and Israel in what could become second front of Israel-Gaza war

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Dan Boyd@DanBoydNM11 Oct 2024
Here are #NM voting numbers through first three days of absentee and early voting. A total of 42,596 voters have now cast ballots. That's just over 3% of all registered voters. Democrats -- 20,831 (48.9%) Republicans -- 16,429 (38.6%) DTS/independent -- 4,973 (11.7%) #nmpol
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Josh Hersh@joshuahersh27 Aug 2024
New episode of @CJR's The Kicker, talking to @PatLohmann of @source_nm about covering wildfires in an era of seemingly endless fire seasons. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
The long, destructive path of fire: Talking to Source NM’s Patrick Lohmann about a never-ending...

The long, destructive path of fire: Talking to Source NM’s Patrick Lohmann about a never-ending...

Podcast Episode · The Kicker · August 26, 2024 · 22m

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NEW: This is one of the more stunning (and sobering) studies I've covered in a while: It found that a decline of bats in the U.S. had come at a deadly cost to human babies washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
How a bat disease may have led to the death of more than 1,000 kids

How a bat disease may have led to the death of more than 1,000 kids

A new study in the journal Science found the decline of bats in the United States had come at a deadly cost to humans.

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Wyatt Myskow@WMyskow15 Aug 2024
“in New Mexico, the highest reading from Ketterer’s water samples — taken from an intermittent stream in Acid Canyon — would be 573 times higher than Colorado’s limit of 0.15 picocuries of plutonium per liter of water.” searchlightnm.org/a-nuclear-…

A nuclear legacy in Los Alamos | Searchlight New Mexico

After three cleanups, independent analysis shows 80-year-old plutonium persists in Acid Canyon and beyond

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The world’s oldest documented plutonium contamination may not lie not in the Chihuahuan Desert at the Trinity Site ... “It’s just a ribbon of contamination going down to the Rio" searchlightnm.org/a-nuclear-…

A nuclear legacy in Los Alamos | Searchlight New Mexico

After three cleanups, independent analysis shows 80-year-old plutonium persists in Acid Canyon and beyond

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Thanks also to @AliceFordham at @KUNMNews, Albuquerque's award-winning NPR station (89.9 Santa Fe/Albuquerque, 88.7 Socorro, 91.9 Las Vegas/Espanola & 90.9 Taos!) for having me on to talk about my latest work. New Mexico, tune in! motherjones.com/politics/202…
“He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”

“He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”

The case of an alleged rape at the Border Patrol Academy, and the culture of silence that helped keep it from public view.

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Erin Siegal McIntyre (@ESMcIntyre) profile pictureErin Siegal McIntyre@ESMcIntyre7 Aug 2024
My latest magazine piece came out online today, as part of a package for the next issue of @MotherJones. It looks at longstanding accountability & transparency issues related to misconduct in the Border Patrol, & one rape reported in 2019 @ the Academy: motherjones.com/politics/202…
“He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”

“He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”

The case of an alleged rape at the Border Patrol Academy, and the culture of silence that helped keep it from public view.

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My latest magazine piece came out online today, as part of a package for the next issue of @MotherJones. It looks at longstanding accountability & transparency issues related to misconduct in the Border Patrol, & one rape reported in 2019 @ the Academy: motherjones.com/politics/202…
“He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”

“He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”

The case of an alleged rape at the Border Patrol Academy, and the culture of silence that helped keep it from public view.

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Joan Greene@joangreeneaz5 Jun 2024
It's a dry hate.
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Arizona is home to dozens of anti-government and hate groups, new report finds azmirror.com/briefs/arizona-… via @ArizonaMirror
Arizona Mirror | Insightful. Investigative. Independent.

Arizona Mirror | Insightful. Investigative. Independent.

Arizona Mirror is an independent, nonprofit news organization that is focused on connecting public policy with the people it affects

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RTDNA@RTDNA20 May 2024
Congratulations to today’s Small Market Radio Regional Edward R. Murrow Award winner! @MarfaRadio buff.ly/3UIaful #MurrowMay #Murrows
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Polo Bear knows that if you want to create a Westernwear outfit, you need to wear things like barn coats, fringed leather jackets, chambray shirts, henleys, leather vests (if you're daring), and cowboy boots. The red bandana around the neck here is jaunty.
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Nearly a year ago Florida passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the country. This week on All Things Considered we look at the aftermath. I spent time in one immigrant community where locals told me 30% have fled. npr.org/2024/04/24/123663117…

Anguish and fear in Florida amid rising anti-immigrant sentiment

Florida passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the country nearly a year ago. Many are thinking about leaving the state and those who stayed behind say it's made life terrifying.

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Nearly a year ago, Florida signed one of the harshest immigration laws in the country, SB1718. I've been spending time in one community where locals say 30% of the population has left. "A ghost town", as one woman described it. My reporting airs today on All Things Considered
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Ten years ago today, the US Dept of Justice found an “overwhelming pattern of unconstitutional use of deadly force” in Albuquerque PD Now, APD is “in compliance” w/ virtually every mandated reform, even while killing more people than ever. My latest: searchlightnm.org/can-the-al…
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