By Daniel Montaño, KUNM Lawmakers heard arguments recently on how to use data to better deliver behavioral healthcare across the state. The company Falling Colors has administered New Mexico’s behavioral health care system since 2017. That can include paperwork, customer service and processing claims. And by the numbers, it’s doing a good job. It pays […]
Matthew Reichbach
Matthew Reichbach is the digital editor for nm.news.
Matt previously as editor of NM Political Report and NM Telegram before joining nm.news in 2024.
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What Trump’s second administration could mean for environmental justice
Amudalat Ajasa, Anna Phillips · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Over the past four years, the Biden administration said it has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to help towns and neighborhoods most harmed by pollution. The money, largely through the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, paid for electric school buses to replace diesel-burning vehicles, brought […]
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What Trump’s second administration could mean for environmental justice
Amudalat Ajasa, Anna Phillips · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Over the past four years, the Biden administration said it has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to help towns and neighborhoods most harmed by pollution. The money, largely through the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, paid for electric school buses to replace diesel-burning vehicles, brought […]
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Romney denounces politicians who ‘tear at our unity’ in farewell Senate speech
By Maegan Vazquez, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), a former GOP presidential nominee who later criticized fellow Republican Donald Trump, delivered his farewell address on the Senate floor Wednesday, stressing the importance of bipartisanship and promising to be “a voice of unity and virtue” after he leaves Washington. “There are […]
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Romney denounces politicians who ‘tear at our unity’ in farewell Senate speech
By Maegan Vazquez, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), a former GOP presidential nominee who later criticized fellow Republican Donald Trump, delivered his farewell address on the Senate floor Wednesday, stressing the importance of bipartisanship and promising to be “a voice of unity and virtue” after he leaves Washington. “There are […]
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The emerging Trump fealty caucus of the GOP
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 It seems unlikely that President-elect Donald Trump’s various Cabinet picks will be confirmed via recess appointments or without FBI background checks. Both are ideas that Trump and his team have floated to avoid the meddlesome problems involved in actually winning the votes they need – even as […]
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The emerging Trump fealty caucus of the GOP
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 It seems unlikely that President-elect Donald Trump’s various Cabinet picks will be confirmed via recess appointments or without FBI background checks. Both are ideas that Trump and his team have floated to avoid the meddlesome problems involved in actually winning the votes they need – even as […]