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Hitting Home: Forlorn on Route 66

In Gallup, hit harder by the coronavirus than any place in the state, small business owners feel lucky to just survive By J. Weston Phippen / Searchlight NM It was Friday the 13th of November and Sammy Chioda was leaving his day job—calling out tracks at KYVA 103.7, Gallup’s classic hits radio station—to head to […]

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Months into the pandemic, challenges remain in virtual classrooms

By Adam Evarts / NM News Port Gwen Gordon sits behind her desk, awaiting the arrival of her students. On the desk sits an attendance book, the day’s lesson plans and her grade book. She hears a noise and looks up. But instead the sound of the classroom door, she hears students arriving in her […]

Albuquerque Community Safety Department ambitious in purpose, limited in funding

By Gordon Payne / NM News Port As 2020 comes to a close, the mayor of New Mexico’s largest city will have to hope for better times next year if one of his key public safety initiatives is going to be realized. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller hoped to build on his “fighting crime from all […]

Shifting politics expected to affect NM oil and gas sector

By Spencer Butler / NM News Port With the 2020 general election finally over, reality is setting in that a new Biden administration will take power on Jan. 21, 2021. And with it comes the promise of a renewed fight over environmental protections that were weakened under the Trump administration. This will affect New Mexicans, […]

Community centers giving kids “sense of normalcy” amid pandemic

By Manuel Romero / NM News Port With COVID-19 case numbers surging across the state, most children find themselves at home trying to learn from virtual classrooms. But for some school kids, Albuquerque’s community centers are their homebase. City of Albuquerque Community Services Division Manager Cristin Chavez-Smith said that these distance-learning programs provide a […]

City pays local hotels to shelter COVID-19 patients

By Alika Medina / NM News Port With the striking rise in the number of COVID-19 cases this fall, the city of Albuquerque has turned to some local hotels to keep vulnerable residents safe and quarantined. Since July, the city has been renting hundreds of rooms in several local hotels to provide isolation for people […]

COVID-19 has affected many families, including mine

By Mariah Perry / NM News Port When COVID-19 entered the world, I didn’t know it would enter mine. Now, as New Mexico reaches 100,000 cases and just set another record high for daily number of deaths, I’m one of the lucky ones. But this pandemic is real. It’s taking a toll on families. It […]

Hitting Home: Deep red and feeling blue

Nine months into the pandemic, Carlsbad residents are divided, defiant and in search of a silver lining. By Adrian Hedden and Ed Williams / Searchlight NM CARLSBAD, N.M. — On an unseasonably hot afternoon in early November, Amber and David Templeton, who worked as crane and rigging operators, were packing their trailer to leave Carlsbad […]