By Julia Goldberg | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning, everyone. Happy Wednesday. Yesterday was an eventful one, with developments on several high-profile stories, including ongoing turmoil with the state’s child welfare agency, and ongoing pushback to a proposed utility merger. You can read about both below, and find more stories in today’s newsletter and online at sourcenm.com, including a new report showing New Mexico is the lone state in which enrollment for Obamacare has not declined. Thanks for reading.
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, pictured on April 8, 2026, alongside the surviving aunt of a teenager who killed himself in 2025 while in state custody, at a news conference to announce the results of his agency’s investigation into the state Children, Youth and Families Department. (Photo by Danielle Prokop/Source NM)
New Mexico AG sues CYFD over reports that staff instructed foster teen to cross Mexican border
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Tuesday announced his office filed a lawsuit against the state Children, Youth and Families Department following reports that agency staffers took a teenage boy out of the foster care system and told him to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to reunite with his estranged mother in Ciudad Juárez.
New Mexico Health Department officials said a 2022 Medicaid expansion that covers new mothers up to a year after giving birth resulted in twice as many postpartum healthcare visits. (Getty Images)
New Mexico Medicaid extension in 2022 doubled postpartum medical visits, state officials say
Source’s Patrick Lohmann reports preliminary results from an ongoing New Mexico Department of Health evaluation show that a 2022 Medicaid expansion for new mothers doubled the number of visits they made to doctors’ offices, which officials said is a promising sign as they seek to reduce pregnancy-related deaths.
In a partnership with the New Mexico Public Education Department, the OBAE said it is accepting grant applications through Aug. 14, 2026, from school districts and charter schools with anti-distraction policies in place to address screen time. (StockPlanets/Getty Images)
State opens grant applications to support school anti-distraction policies
The New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion recently announced it is awarding $1 million in grants to support school districts and charter schools in implementing state-required policies limiting student screen time during instructional hours.
Youth United for Climate Crisis Action Director Adrastos Da Silva, left, and organizer Zephyr Jaramillo, right, hold signs depicting private equity firm Blackstone Infrastructure’s CEO in protest of a proposed merger with New Mexico’s largest electric provider at a Tuesday public hearing. (Photo by Danielle Prokop for Source NM)
New Mexico residents weigh in on proposed private equity takeover of PNM
New Mexico residents filled a ballroom on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque on Tuesday to weigh in on a private equity firm’s proposal to take over the state’s largest electric provider. Source’s Joshua Bowling reports on Tuesday’s public hearing.
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