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Stephanie Nakhleh is a journalist from Los Alamos covering how policy shapes daily life. She writes about systems, housing, and local government—and what it takes to build a future that works better for more people.
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‘My daughter is not worth more than any other child’ (opens the original)
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When my two kids were small, I sent them to our local public school, a Title I school in Santa Fe serving some of the most underprivileged children in the district. We could have put them in Los Alamos’s best-in-state schools, since my husband worked there, but I pushed for the neighborhood school. I believed every school had good teachers and that public education was critical civic infrastructure. I also knew that a school’s rating often tells you more about its students’ demographics than the
‘The future of everything’ for Santa Fe (opens the original)
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According to Miguel Acosta, there is only one safe place for a toddler to play anywhere along Airport Road, and it’s the McDonald’s.Acosta, co-director of the community organization Earth Care, said so last Thursday night, adding that little has changed since he and former county commissioner Ed Moreno surveyed residents 15 years ago. Earth Care works in 20 neighborhoods—mostly mobile home communities annexed from the county—along the Airport Road corridor on Santa Fe’s so
Legislators: the money isn’t turning into houses (opens the original)
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New Mexico came out of this February’s 30-day session with a $10 million starter-home loan program, a tax deduction for builders of affordable apartments, and no zoning reform. Two zoning bills and a housing data bill died in committee. The state is still short 58,000 homes, remains the only state in the Southwest without a law easing zoning barriers to housing, and now heads into a 60-day
How you can help make ‘Plan Los Alamos’ serious about housing (opens the original)
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Plan Los Alamos, our county’s comprehensive development roadmap, is out for public review until this Wednesday, Sept. 9. This policy document will direct next year’s rewrite of the development code—the legal rulebook that tells townbuilders what can be built, where, and how.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substa
Los Alamos police defended license plate cameras to a skeptical room on Aug. 27 (opens the original)
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If this article is truncated in your email, please click on the headline to read the whole thing.Flock license-plate reader cameras have become a national flashpoint, and the argument about this form of policing has now arrived in Los Alamos—even though Los Alamos County has no Flock cameras. The County does have an automated license plate reader (ALPR) program, which the Los Alamos Police Department has run for several years.
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