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Growing pains: Challenges emerge as New Mexico rolls out no-cost child care for all

Antoinette “Lena” Genco has nowhere to send her kids. A corrections officer at the Quay County jail in Tucumcari, the single ...
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Data: Little progress so far in expanding New Mexico child care capacity

Michelle Chavez doesn’t have room for any more kids. Chavez runs Turquoise Child Development Center, one of Tucumcari’s two ...
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From DACA recipient to New Mexico Senate, Cindy Nava charted her own path

Wandering the halls of the Roundhouse in her late teens and 20s, Cindy Nava often felt the people she could “connect with ...
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‘I’ve lived it’: Valeria Alarcón pushes for state funding for rural, tribal health councils

Valeria Alarcón, executive director of the New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils, hosts Public Health Day at the Legislature in 2024. Courtesy photo As the New Mexico Legislature’s 2026 session ...