Alice Fordham
ReporterAlice Fordham joined the news team in 2022 after a career as an international correspondent, reporting for NPR from the Middle East and later Latin America and Europe. She also worked as a podcast producer for The Economist among other outlets, and tries to meld a love of sound and storytelling with solid reporting on the community. She grew up in the U.K. and has a small jar of Marmite in her kitchen for emergencies.
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New contraceptive pill available without prescription will be free for the one-third of New Mexicans who are covered by Medicaid
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The bill would create a state fund that employers and employees would pay into. After an application process managed by the Department of Workforce Solutions, employees would be paid at least a portion of their salaries while on leave.
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A bill now under discussion in the legislature would give $500 million to an affordable housing trust fund which has provided flexible funding for housing initiatives for low- and moderate-income households since 2005.
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Michelle Lujan Grisham gave a press conference along with parents, children, educators and officials eager to talk about the effectiveness of structured literacy, a technique teachers and schools have increasingly been using in New Mexico and nationwide in recent years.
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As the legislature met for the first day of the 2024 session, and heard a sweeping State of the State address from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, some Democratic and Republican lawmakers also laid out their priorities.
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The United States is the only rich country with no guaranteed paid maternity leave. But nationwide, 13 states and the District of Columbia have laws that create paid family and medical leave programs for eligible workers, according to the Department of Labor.
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Alicia Inez Guzmán of Searchlight New Mexico tells KUNM about finding the story of a woman who lived and died in her home town, and whose radiation was discovered in a clandestine autopsy.
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State economists say that revenues from the booming oil and gas sector are still growing, but that the growth is set to slow in the coming years.
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The Nation is charging Dineh Benally and Farley Blue-Eyes with six criminal complaints in connection with the grow operation, which at the time Benally claimed was a hemp farm.
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A new Memorandum of Understanding paves the way for a co-stewardship agreement between the tribe and federal agencies.