Deadline looms for verifying internet speeds across Southern NM
PHOTO: A poster advertising satellite-based internet service is seen Dec. 9, 2022 in the farming community of La Mesa, 17 miles south of Las Cruces on N.M. Hwy. 28. New Mexicans face a Friday, Jan. 13 deadline to verify their internet speeds on a federal broadband map – a step that will be key to getting funding for faster internet in the future. (By Diana Alba Soular/ Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative)
‘Tripledemic’ strains Southern NM hospitals
Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is seen in mid-December 2022.
The power of promotoras: How community health workers helped residents cope with COVID-19
Inez Herrera, left, and Alma Renteria, both Doña Ana County promotoras, practice a blanket-making technique taught at one of a number of classes offered to residents at community centers in the outlying areas. Promotoras, or community health workers, have helped residents in rural areas navigate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and aftermath.
Southern NM community of Chaparral had trouble accessing COVID-19 relief funds
Jeff Gore, a longtime resident of Chaparral, says the community is a quiet one that is not trusting of the government or the media. (Photo by Reyes Mata III)
A look at COVID-19 mental health impacts & spending in Southern New Mexico
Columbus, New Mexico resident Lievano Ramirez said the stress of isolating in his home and the uncertainty of living amid a pandemic affected his mental health.
