Emily Bevard News
Voter transparency increases in New Mexico with addition to online voter registration database
By Emily Bevard | Feb 25, 2022
In Dec. 2021, New Mexico was added to the VoteRef database, an online voter registration database run by the Voter Reference Foundation.
Elections watchdog calls proposed New Mexico Voting Rights Act 'an invitation to fraud and chaos'
By Emily Bevard | Feb 10, 2022
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver recently introduced Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), which would expand and protect New Mexico voting rights by increasing online voter registration, creating a permanent voluntary absentee ballot request list and offering protections to native voters.
Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft push use of fiber optic cables to 'provide services at ever-lower costs'
By Emily Bevard | Jan 25, 2022
Fiber optic cables are responsible for linking together countries across oceans and carrying 95% of international internet traffic—a feat accomplished with a total length of more than 800,000 miles.
'In service to the nation': Officials call on federal government for strong oversight at nuclear Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
By Emily Bevard | Jan 8, 2022
New Mexico officials and members of Congress have called on the federal government to address the alleged problems with the U.S. Department of Energy’s environmental cleanup operations, leading to the potential for stronger oversight on the West Isolation Pilot Plant.
'I couldn't breathe': Santa Fe woman reports oxygen tank shortage after COVID-19 hospital stay
By Emily Bevard | Jan 8, 2022
Santa Fe resident Angela Byres is recovering from a low oxygen tank supply following a stay at the hospital for COVID-19.
PNM extends deadline for COVID-19 Customer Relief Fund to 'help you get caught back up again'
By Emily Bevard | Jan 6, 2022
PNM is set to extend the deadline for its COVID-19 Customer Relief Fund, helping eligible customers pay down or pay off their past due PNM electricity bills with a one-time credit.
Albuquerque Public Schools to implement enhanced COVID-safe practices amid 'COVID fatigue'
By Emily Bevard | Jan 6, 2022
Albuquerque Public Schools has released a plan to implement enhanced COVID-safe practices, detailing steps a school should take if it has 3% or more of the school becoming infectious within 14 days.
Woman sues Bernalillo County for crash involving cow
By Emily Bevard | Jan 6, 2022
Bernalillo County is facing a lawsuit after a woman became involved in a crash in which she struck a cow on Shelly Drive in 2019.
'People should not suffer another day': Navajo council to send $2,000 checks to qualified tribal members
By Emily Bevard | Jan 6, 2022
The Navajo Nation tribal council voted to send $2,000 to qualified tribal members and $600 for each child using some of the $2.1 billion in funds received from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act.
Search warrant issued in shooting death of Santa Fe toddler
By Emily Bevard | Dec 24, 2021
A search warrant was issued in the investigation of a shooting that resulted in the recent death of a 2-year-old boy in Santa Fe last week.
'We want them to grow up healthy and happy': New Mexico urged to keep hands off child support payments
By Emily Bevard | Dec 24, 2021
The head of New Mexico’s child support enforcement agency has called for the state to stop intercepting child support payments directed to poor families, following a ProPublica investigation this fall stating the state claimed the funds as a repayment to the government for welfare received in the past.
Albuquerque to buy land surrounding Petroglyph National Monument to protect 'really important' site
By Emily Bevard | Dec 21, 2021
Albuquerque has entered the final stages of negotiation to purchase 60 acres of land around the Petroglyph National Monument, hoping to stave off any future developments bordering the area.
Number of Albuquerque's unsheltered homeless doubles over last 5 years
By Emily Bevard | Dec 18, 2021
Homelessness in Albuquerque has been on the rise over the last five years, leaving hundreds of residents out in the cold as cooler temperatures push through the city.
Fiebelkorn, Grout win seats on Albuquerque City Council
By Emily Bevard | Dec 9, 2021
Environmental consultant and lobbyist Tammy Fiebelkorn and small business owner Renee Grout won their respective runoff elections Tuesday, filling out the Albuquerque City Council where Democrats maintain a majority of seats, despite the balance of power shifting slightly to the right in 2022.
'Taxpaying citizens deserve a clean, safe, well-run city': Albuquerque resident shares support for District 9 City Council candidate Grout
By Emily Bevard | Dec 2, 2021
Albuquerque residents who support District 9 City Council candidate Renee Grout cite her intent to combat the crime and homelessness they say is prevalent across the city.
Lobo volleyball's Biassou, Guereca earn Mountain West all-conference honors
By Emily Bevard | Nov 30, 2021
Lobo’s women’s volleyball players Kaitlynn Biassou and Uxue Guereca were recognized by Mountain West coaches as being among the best in the Mountain West Conference Wednesday and selected to play for the All-Conference Team.
New Mexico Supreme Court: Medicaid payments may be recovered from Albuquerque nursing home
By Emily Bevard | Nov 25, 2021
New Mexico may proceed in the process of recovering Medicaid payments from an Albuquerque nursing home that did not comply with the requirements for screening patients for developmental disabilities and mental illness, the New Mexico State Supreme Court ruled this week.
New Mexico families, prosecutors push for harsher sentencing in child abuse cases
By Emily Bevard | Oct 24, 2021
Calls for change in the handling of child abuse cases have sparked families and prosecutors to push for tougher punishment.
Albuquerque councilman pushes for vaccine mandate in city fire, police departments amid 'staffing crisis'
By Emily Bevard | Oct 23, 2021
An Albuquerque city council member is pushing for a vaccine mandate in the city’s police and fire departments as unions remain dead set against the idea, according to a report by KRQE.
Albuquerque Police arrest 6 'repeat offenders' in Harbor Flight shoplifting operation
By Emily Bevard | Oct 22, 2021
The Albuquerque Police Department’s Organized Crime Unit has arrested six individuals connected to a shoplifting operation at Harbor Freight.