Daniel Monta帽o
Public Health ReporterDaniel Monta帽o is a reporter with 九色网's Public Health, Poverty and Equity project. He is also an occasional host of Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Let's Talk New Mexico since 2021, is a born and bred Burque帽o who first started with 九色网 about two decades ago, as a production assistant while he was in high school. During the intervening years, he studied journalism at UNM, lived abroad, fell in and out of love, conquered here and there, failed here and there, and developed a taste for advocating for human rights.
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For the first time in years, overdose deaths have been declining recently after reaching a peak of about 111,000 in 2022. However, advocates are worried about a backslide on that progress as federal grants are lost, and agencies like the the National Institutes of Health are crippled by drastic funding cuts. -
U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan hosted a forum Wednesday with Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto spotlighting the local and national effects of President Trump鈥檚 tariff policies. The forum featured almost a dozen speakers including business owners and economic experts, who discussed the ways tariffs have contributed to economic instability, increased costs for working families and benefited special interests. -
A second contender for the Albuquerque Mayoral race says the required 3,000 signatures needed to officially run is within his grasp. Alexander Uballez announced hitting the milestone at a rally Friday. -
Some of New Mexico鈥檚 top lawmakers and leaders gathered Thursday to discuss the potential impact of the federal 鈥淥ne Big Beautiful Bill Act鈥� on the state鈥檚 most vulnerable populations. U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury, and State Speaker of the House Javier Martinez, both Democrats, spoke at the CommonSpirit St.Joseph鈥檚 Children center along with President of the center, Allen Sanchez. -
The New Mexico Department of Justice has released an interactive map showing some of the impacts of federal funding cuts. The map was added to the federal disruptions tracker the NMDOJ launched last month. -
The New Mexico Humanities Council will be able to keep its doors open 鈥� at least for now 鈥� thanks to an injection of A quarter of a million dollars in/ funding from the Mellon Foundation. The money is meant to help alleviate the sting of the Trump Administration and Elon Musk鈥檚 DOGE group eliminating grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of their war on federal spending. -
The newest edition to Albuquerque鈥檚 Gateway system of care is getting ready to accept residents. The new pallet home community, dubbed Gateway Recovery, is meant to provide temporary housing for people who successfully complete medical detox, but don鈥檛 have anywhere to live while taking the next steps in addiction recovery. -
On this episode we talk about the promises and threats from private equity ownership in health care. New Mexico has the highest proportion of private equity- owned hospitals in the country and we鈥檝e been named most at risk of further private equity takeovers. That's why lawmakers recently passed an oversight bill on hospital acquisitions and mergers. -
The University of New Mexico鈥檚 Project ECHO has connected professionals around New Mexico, and the world, to health education using virtual training for decades. But it鈥檚 now offering training to teach everyone in New Mexico how to respond to an opioid overdose and how to properly administer naloxone. -
State legislators鈥� first attempt to pass a bill providing oversight of hospital mergers, acquisitions and private equity takeovers failed in the face of overwhelming industry opposition. They then successfully scrambled to get a second 鈥� less controversial 鈥� bill passed before the session closed. With the Governor's signature, the state will now have permanent protection, but some lawmakers worry the final bill might have too many concessions
