By Rayes Gallegos / New Mexico News Port Online classes were increasingly popular at UNM before the pandemic pushed all classes to Zoom, but now students and professors are starting to reevaluate how online classes fit in the overall picture. Associate Provost of Student Success Pamela Cheek says since the… Continue reading Online’s Not Fine?
By Jacob Trasen / New Mexico News Port The University of New Mexico Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences was recently awarded an $830,000 grant that will help create the “Project SCENES” program at UNM. This program is designed to help teach UNM students to more effectively work with young… Continue reading UNM Training Grant to Improve Special Ed Teaching
By Rayes Gallegos / New Mexico News Port Body on fire, lungs lathered in a light complected forest green mucus and the fatigue of a sprinter completing a marathon. Tightly compressed into the covers of my grandmother’s bed I was dealing with a cold. Soup and liquids kept me replenished… Continue reading Curanderismo Gaining Steam?
By Taylor A. Gibson / New Mexico News Port A year ago, Earth and Planetary Sciences major Cheyenne Livingston, 23, was struggling to finish her homework but more pressingly, she had to find a place to park overnight, because she was living in her car. “It definitely broke my spirit,”… Continue reading Housing Hardships threaten UNM students
By Brigid Driscoll and Lara Sullivan / New Mexico News Port Movie theater ticket sales peaked in 2002 and were slowly declining until the pandemic shuttered indoor spaces and tanked sales. They are now rebounding, but in 2021 theater-goers bought fewer than 500 million tickets, less than half of the… Continue reading Movie theaters transform in response to streaming
By Jacob Trasen and Juan Baeza / New Mexico News Port When University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas won a national championship event in March, 2022 some saw it as a monumental victory for a trans athlete. But others felt that it was unfair for the other women that she… Continue reading Women in sports disagree with Transgender athletes
By Jacob Trasen / New Mexico News Port The City of Albuquerque plans to renovate the Sunport in 2023, expanding the food court in order to accommodate passengers who are spending more time in the airport before their flights. The project for New Mexico’s largest commercial airport has three goals,… Continue reading ABQ Sunport to Double Food Court Area
By Lara Sullivan / New Mexico News Port Professor of math and statistics Billy Brown introduced himself and the poetry group he hosts, Fixed and Free, at a UNM faculty Lightning Lounge on Wednesday afternoon. He read an emotionally heart wrenching poem about his young daughter, who tragically passed away… Continue reading UNM Alums Express Emotion in Poetry During Lightning Lounge Event
By Annya Loya / New Mexico News Port Some New Mexicans living with severe depression, anxiety and similar conditions now have another treatment option: psychedelic drugs. Psychiatrists are now able to prescribe the anesthesia drug ketamine in small doses that researchers say have powerful therapeutic effects. Other drugs such as… Continue reading Psychedelic-assisted therapy comes to New Mexico
By Brigid Driscoll / New Mexico News port UNM students might be getting money from the state to help offset increases in the price of gas and other stuff, if Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs a package passed by the Legislature in a special session April 5. According to a… Continue reading Gas Price Relief to Come for Some UNM Students
PBS “The Open Mind” host, Alexander Heffner discussed the importance of open discussions regarding societal issues.
“I think my point is that we have to recognize the infrastructure necessary to preserve that free and open discussion,” Heffner said.
A new generation rejects the traumas handed down from parents and grandparents. Read — and listen — as we take a deep dive into generational trauma within Latino, Chicano and Hispanic families.
Sex work pays for the drugs and the cycle is hard to break. News Port’s Junko Featherston introduces us to someone who has overcome a 20-year struggle to get clean and find joy in life.
Albuquerque music producer Avery Layfield lays out his creative process and shares his take on the local music scene in this podcast demo of the Gavin Moughan Show.
Show me the money is the new motto for college football recruiting. Our podcasters Juan and Rayes chew over what the new NIL options mean for the future of sports.
By Aldo Jurado and Juan Baeza / New Mexico News Port “It’s been a tough past few weeks,” says Dipo Alam, an Indonesian American who owns three different restaurant concepts with locations all over New Mexico. One of his restaurants near Cottonwood Mall was burgled in February. Earlier this year,… Continue reading Asian business group helps members weather crime
By Aldo Jurado / NM News Port Stephanie Muñiz grew up in New Mexico, went to college at NMSU, and launched a career as a local television reporter in Yakima, Washington. Now she’s home again — a reporter for KOAT Action 7 News. In this audio report, Muñiz tells me… Continue reading Reporter returns home, finds stories go deeper
By Rayes Gallegos / New Mexico News Port The person who tried using a wrench to steal gas from a van parked in Albuquerque’s South Valley didn’t siphon any gas but successfully cracked the gas tank spilling toxic fuel all over a pre-school’s driveway. The van belonged to Cuidando Los… Continue reading Gas Siphoning Hits ABQ
By Michaela Helean / New Mexico News Port New Mexicans will no longer have to pay state gross receipts tax on products such as pads and tampons starting in July, when the bipartisan “Tampon Tax” cut goes into effect. The tax cut was part of a package of economic relief… Continue reading Goodbye Tampon Tax
By Juan Baeza / New Mexico News Port Three Albuquerque-based Ukrainian women asked the UNM community for donations for Ukrainian victims of the Russian invasion at a forum March 24. Byrum Lindsey, a retired UNM professor of Russian language and literature, hosted the forum at Dane Smith Hall, where a… Continue reading Ukrainian women ask to be heard
By Brigid Driscoll and Jacob Trasen / New Mexico News Port When the pandemic first hit University of New Mexico baseball player Jack Silverman, realizing the team might not be able to play, it took a toll on his mental health thinking about what his future looked like. That’s one… Continue reading Student athletes’ mental health suffers during pandemic
By Rayes Gallegos, Annya Loya and Lara Sullivan / New Mexico News Port Maryjo Huffaker was upset when a grocery store clerk in El Paso wasn’t wearing a mask. Three days later Huffaker had a temperature of 104 degrees, diarrhea and aches. “I was just so weak I would get… Continue reading Long Covid Exhausts Sufferers
By Rayes Gallegos / New Mexico News Port Online classes were increasingly popular at UNM before the pandemic pushed all classes to Zoom, but now students and professors are starting to reevaluate how online classes fit in the overall picture. Associate Provost of Student Success Pamela Cheek says since the… Continue reading Online’s Not Fine?
By Jacob Trasen / New Mexico News Port The University of New Mexico Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences was recently awarded an $830,000 grant that will help create the “Project SCENES” program at UNM. This program is designed to help teach UNM students to more effectively work with young… Continue reading UNM Training Grant to Improve Special Ed Teaching
Photographed by Taylor Gibson / New Mexico News Port Taylor Gibson is a reporter for New Mexico News Port and can be reached at nmnewsport@gmail.com.
By Rayes Gallegos / New Mexico News Port Body on fire, lungs lathered in a light complected forest green mucus and the fatigue of a sprinter completing a marathon. Tightly compressed into the covers of my grandmother’s bed I was dealing with a cold. Soup and liquids kept me replenished… Continue reading Curanderismo Gaining Steam?
Schools in New Mexico have observed the shortage workers and students leading them to introduce non-traditional courses
By Taylor A. Gibson / New Mexico News Port A year ago, Earth and Planetary Sciences major Cheyenne Livingston, 23, was struggling to finish her homework but more pressingly, she had to find a place to park overnight, because she was living in her car. “It definitely broke my spirit,”… Continue reading Housing Hardships threaten UNM students
By Brigid Driscoll and Lara Sullivan / New Mexico News Port Movie theater ticket sales peaked in 2002 and were slowly declining until the pandemic shuttered indoor spaces and tanked sales. They are now rebounding, but in 2021 theater-goers bought fewer than 500 million tickets, less than half of the… Continue reading Movie theaters transform in response to streaming
By Jacob Trasen and Juan Baeza / New Mexico News Port When University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas won a national championship event in March, 2022 some saw it as a monumental victory for a trans athlete. But others felt that it was unfair for the other women that she… Continue reading Women in sports disagree with Transgender athletes
“All of a sudden a beer turns to two, then two shots,” says Brigid’s dad, a struggling alcoholic, in this raw family exchange.
By Jacob Trasen / New Mexico News Port The City of Albuquerque plans to renovate the Sunport in 2023, expanding the food court in order to accommodate passengers who are spending more time in the airport before their flights. The project for New Mexico’s largest commercial airport has three goals,… Continue reading ABQ Sunport to Double Food Court Area
By Lara Sullivan / New Mexico News Port Professor of math and statistics Billy Brown introduced himself and the poetry group he hosts, Fixed and Free, at a UNM faculty Lightning Lounge on Wednesday afternoon. He read an emotionally heart wrenching poem about his young daughter, who tragically passed away… Continue reading UNM Alums Express Emotion in Poetry During Lightning Lounge Event
In a presentation “Archaeology of the Invisible,” Harvard professor Christina Warinner discusses her groundbreaking archaeology findings.
By Annya Loya / New Mexico News Port Some New Mexicans living with severe depression, anxiety and similar conditions now have another treatment option: psychedelic drugs. Psychiatrists are now able to prescribe the anesthesia drug ketamine in small doses that researchers say have powerful therapeutic effects. Other drugs such as… Continue reading Psychedelic-assisted therapy comes to New Mexico
By Brigid Driscoll / New Mexico News port UNM students might be getting money from the state to help offset increases in the price of gas and other stuff, if Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs a package passed by the Legislature in a special session April 5. According to a… Continue reading Gas Price Relief to Come for Some UNM Students
PBS “The Open Mind” host, Alexander Heffner discussed the importance of open discussions regarding societal issues. “I think my point is that we have to recognize the infrastructure necessary to preserve that free and open discussion,” Heffner said.
Despite the mockery — and preceded by Tik Tok fame — campus preacher Sister Cindy attracts a crowd at UNM. Maddie Pukite captures the scene on tape.
Kevin Mullet discusses how postcards were used to spread racism and terror in the United States. His guest is an expert on “lynching photography.”
Father-son combo, Sean Johnson-Latham and Walter Latham, discuss what makes NBA-champions champs.
A new generation rejects the traumas handed down from parents and grandparents. Read — and listen — as we take a deep dive into generational trauma within Latino, Chicano and Hispanic families.
Sex work pays for the drugs and the cycle is hard to break. News Port’s Junko Featherston introduces us to someone who has overcome a 20-year struggle to get clean and find joy in life.
Albuquerque music producer Avery Layfield lays out his creative process and shares his take on the local music scene in this podcast demo of the Gavin Moughan Show.
As college students, we face dilemmas big and small. In this debut of The Dilemma Podcast, we explore your issues and let you know you are not alone.
Show me the money is the new motto for college football recruiting. Our podcasters Juan and Rayes chew over what the new NIL options mean for the future of sports.
By Aldo Jurado and Juan Baeza / New Mexico News Port “It’s been a tough past few weeks,” says Dipo Alam, an Indonesian American who owns three different restaurant concepts with locations all over New Mexico. One of his restaurants near Cottonwood Mall was burgled in February. Earlier this year,… Continue reading Asian business group helps members weather crime
By Aldo Jurado / NM News Port Stephanie Muñiz grew up in New Mexico, went to college at NMSU, and launched a career as a local television reporter in Yakima, Washington. Now she’s home again — a reporter for KOAT Action 7 News. In this audio report, Muñiz tells me… Continue reading Reporter returns home, finds stories go deeper
By Rayes Gallegos / New Mexico News Port The person who tried using a wrench to steal gas from a van parked in Albuquerque’s South Valley didn’t siphon any gas but successfully cracked the gas tank spilling toxic fuel all over a pre-school’s driveway. The van belonged to Cuidando Los… Continue reading Gas Siphoning Hits ABQ
By Michaela Helean / New Mexico News Port New Mexicans will no longer have to pay state gross receipts tax on products such as pads and tampons starting in July, when the bipartisan “Tampon Tax” cut goes into effect. The tax cut was part of a package of economic relief… Continue reading Goodbye Tampon Tax
By Juan Baeza / New Mexico News Port Three Albuquerque-based Ukrainian women asked the UNM community for donations for Ukrainian victims of the Russian invasion at a forum March 24. Byrum Lindsey, a retired UNM professor of Russian language and literature, hosted the forum at Dane Smith Hall, where a… Continue reading Ukrainian women ask to be heard
By Brigid Driscoll and Jacob Trasen / New Mexico News Port When the pandemic first hit University of New Mexico baseball player Jack Silverman, realizing the team might not be able to play, it took a toll on his mental health thinking about what his future looked like. That’s one… Continue reading Student athletes’ mental health suffers during pandemic
By Rayes Gallegos, Annya Loya and Lara Sullivan / New Mexico News Port Maryjo Huffaker was upset when a grocery store clerk in El Paso wasn’t wearing a mask. Three days later Huffaker had a temperature of 104 degrees, diarrhea and aches. “I was just so weak I would get… Continue reading Long Covid Exhausts Sufferers