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OPINION: Beyond the glass ceiling: Why more female officers are needed
JOURNAL COLUMN Then-Deputy Chief of Police Cecily Barker gives details on a police shooting in Northeast Albuquerque. As a rank-and-file police officer, Cecily Barker never saw herself as any different than any other cop. “I've always tried to just see myself as another officer, and not the difference between male and females,” she says. But since being named Albuquerque’s first female chief of police, she can’t help but see a big difference.
Dolores Huerta says Cesar Chavez sexually pressured her and raped her, leading to two secret children
In a statement posted on Medium, activist Dolores Huerta said that Cesar Chavez pressured her into sex and raped her, both incidents leading to children she bore and then gave away to keep the secret. “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for,” Huerta wrote. “I have encouraged people to always use their voice.
Dolores Huerta says Cesar Chavez sexually pressured her and raped her, leading to two secret children
In a statement posted on Medium, activist Dolores Huerta said that Cesar Chavez pressured her into sex and raped her, both incidents leading to children she bore and then gave away to keep the secret. “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for,” Huerta wrote. “I have encouraged people to always use their voice.
How the chaos in the Middle East could affect New Mexico’s oil production
This week the United States and allies released 400 million barrels of oil from the International Energy Agency’s strategic petroleum reserves, 172 million coming from the U.S. The move comes in the wake of U.S. and Israeli bombings of Iran, which killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and left the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil shipping route, all but shuttered — potentially for weeks or months.
How free universal child care in New Mexico can attract and keep workers
JOURNAL COLUMN When I first moved to Santa Fe almost five years ago, I was introduced to another D.C. ex-pat, Ian Koons. We both knew many of the same folks in D.C. and we both ran the only venture-backed health care startups in New Mexico at the time. Ian had followed his wife Rosie, whose family hailed from Farmington, to the Land of Entrapment, as he called it. In the four years since, Ian has been looking for a way out of New Mexico. And Rosie and I have been trying to convince him to stay.
Fiber optic frustration: When your internet install comes with a side of sticker shock
JOURNAL COLUMN Last week, my family and I were excited to get our new fiber optic line installed by Ezee Fiber. We’d watched for weeks as crews had come up and down our street digging and tunneling the cables through, and the service represented real savings over our old Xfinity plan. The city of Albuquerque announced four years ago an investment in fiber optic connectivity across the city to help bridge the digital divide.
Letter from the editor on fundraising
FROM THE EDITOR “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1786. One of the fundamental strengths of American democracy is a free press, enshrined in the First Amendment to our Constitution. And yet this essential watchdog has been under attack. Since COVID, newsrooms have lost more than 30,000 staff; since the advent of the internet, newsrooms have lost hundreds of thousands of staff. We are in a new era of journalism.
OPINION: Why we published story about candidate's arrest
We received a number of emails, letters and social media comments on an article, “Court records show City Council candidate arrested in 2015,” published on Nov. 28 by our courts reporter Olivier Uyttebrouck. So, I wanted to address the criticism here. First the facts: Teresa Garcia is in a Dec. 9 runoff for the District 3 City Council seat, challenging three-term incumbent Klarissa Peña. Peña won 41% of the vote Nov.
OPINION: Why we published story about candidate's arrest
We received a number of emails, letters and social media comments on an article, “Court records show City Council candidate arrested in 2015,” published on Nov. 28 by our courts reporter Olivier Uyttebrouck. So, I wanted to address the criticism here. First the facts: Teresa Garcia is in a Dec. 9 runoff for the District 3 City Council seat, challenging three-term incumbent Klarissa Peña. Peña won 41% of the vote Nov.
Democrats sweep Tuesday’s off-year elections
Democrats swept Tuesday’s off year elections largely on an anti-President Donald Trump message, but any Democrat looking for a clear path to winning the 2026 midterms left the night frustrated at the diverse and sometimes conflicting political messages coming from the various candidates. New Jersey elected Democrat Mikie Sherrill, who ran on an anti-Trump platform. And in a harbinger of the 2026 elections Proposition 50 passed in California, giving Gov.
Why Djibouti? Hundreds of New Mexico National Guardsmen are being deployed halfway around the world
Why are hundreds of New Mexico National Guardsmen heading to Djibouti? This week saw farewell ceremonies in Las Cruces and Rio Rancho for 400 National Guard troops being deployed to Djibouti. Wait, you may ask, where is Djibouti and what are U.S. interests there? Djibouti is on the Horn of Africa’s eastern shore.
Why Djibouti?
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Get paid to ditch the grass
Apr. 1—We live in a desert. So why are you spending a fortune irrigating your yards? The latest trend for landscaping in the southwest is minimalist. Xeriscaping is an approach to landscaping that requires little-to-no water and almost no maintenance. Oh, and these days Bernalillo County will pay you to do this. Studies show that up to 30% of the daily water consumption for American households goes toward watering lawns and gardens.
Get paid to ditch the grass
Apr. 1—We live in a desert. So why are you spending a fortune irrigating your yards? The latest trend for landscaping in the southwest is minimalist. Xeriscaping is an approach to landscaping that requires little-to-no water and almost no maintenance. Oh, and these days Bernalillo County will pay you to do this. Studies show that up to 30% of the daily water consumption for American households goes toward watering lawns and gardens.
Get paid to ditch the grass
We live in a desert. So why are you spending a fortune irrigating your yards? The latest trend for landscaping in the southwest is minimalist. Xeriscaping is an approach to landscaping that requires little-to-no water and almost no maintenance. Oh, and these days Bernalillo County will pay you to do this. kAm$EF5:6D D9@H E92E FA E@ k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^`h;2?F2CJa_`fD?2AD9@E]6A2]8@G^HHHb^H2E6CD6?D6^AF3D^@FE5@@C]9E>=Q E2C86ElQ03=2?<Qmb_T @7 E96 52:=J H2E6C 4@?DF>AE:@?k^2m 7@C p>6C:42?
Arakawa's death highlights the challenges of Alzheimer's caregiving
Mar. 9—My mother died of the stress of Alzheimer's caregiving. A decade into caring for my father — and hiding his diagnosis from their friends — she dropped dead of a stress-induced brain aneurysm. Her story is not unique, and I see echoes of it in Betsy Arakawa's caregiving for her husband, actor Gene Hackman, 95. Arakawa, 65, died sometime after Feb. 11, when her last errands were caught on tape shopping in Santa Fe, and before her husband's death on Feb.
Arakawa's death highlights the challenges of Alzheimer's caregiving
My mother died of the stress of Alzheimer’s caregiving. A decade into caring for my father — and hiding his diagnosis from their friends — she dropped dead of a stress-induced brain aneurysm. Her story is not unique, and I see echoes of it in Betsy Arakawa’s caregiving for her husband, actor Gene Hackman, 95. Arakawa, 65, died sometime after Feb. 11, when her last errands were caught on tape shopping in Santa Fe, and before her husband’s death on Feb. 17, .
OPINION: OPINION: Score one for bureaucracy in its battle with technology
Feb. 9—You may not realize it, but the planet has been in the midst of a once-in-a-500-year leap forward. From the Renaissance to the advent of the printing press, in the last millennium humanity has seen two giant leaps in advancement. And now, with the advent of the internet, artificial intelligence, quantum computing — really, let's just call it technology — we are seeing a third.
OPINION: Score one for bureaucracy in its battle with technology
You may not realize it, but the planet has been in the midst of a once-in-a-500-year leap forward. From the Renaissance to the advent of the printing press, in the last millennium humanity has seen two giant leaps in advancement. And now, with the advent of the internet, artificial intelligence, quantum computing — really, let’s just call it technology — we are seeing a third. kAmuC@> >J A6C496D 2D 2 (2D9:?8E@? 4@CC6DA@?56?E 7@C %x|t |282K:?6[ 2?5 E96 rt~ @7 2 $:=:4@?
OPINION: Q&A with Journal Community Council member Dale R. Dekker
Jan. 13—Q: Can you introduce yourself and provide some background on your career? A: My name is Dale Dekker. I'm an architect and planner. I grew up in Albuquerque, attending Zia Elementary, Jefferson Junior High, and Highland High School. After earning my architecture degree from Texas Tech, I returned to Albuquerque in 1978. I partnered with my father, Art Dekker, to form Dekker and Associates in 1980.
New Mexico has a female-majority Legislature for the first time. So, will they govern differently than the men who've come before them?
Nov. 18—Now that New Mexico has a majority-female state Legislature for the first time, experts will be watching to see what, if anything, is different because of this broken barrier. Indeed, several Western states are leading the nation in female representation. As someone who has written and studied female representation for over a decade, I'm excited to see up close what difference these women in New Mexico might make.
New Mexico has a female-majority Legislature for the first time. So, will they govern differently than the men who’ve come before them?
Now that New Mexico has a majority-female state Legislature for the first time, experts will be watching to see what, if anything, is different because of this broken barrier. Indeed, several Western states are leading the nation in female representation. As someone who has written and studied female representation for over a decade, I’m excited to see up close what difference these women in New Mexico might make.
Academy alumni set goals as high as the highest tree -- systemic change in ground wood market
In the summer of 2020, Yale University forestry student Ben Christensen was home in Albuquerque weathering the pandemic like most students. He'd just left a large lumber waste pile, which collects waste wood from all over the city, in Los Ranchos and was walking into a Sprouts a couple of miles away when he noticed bundles of wood for sale for summer s'mores around the fire pit. Curious, he looked at the tag: the wood had come from Estonia in Eastern Europe.
How to get the best days from call centers
At the beginning of every year, my mother-in-law Martha gets inundated with phone calls, emails, texts and fliers about Medicare Advantage plans. She’s a retired teacher in east Los Angeles and her husband, Barry, is on her plan. Barry has vascular dementia and probably should start getting some kind of in-home help.
Hammer, co-founder of $10M startup investor, puts roots here and believes in New Mexico
Adam Hammer may have been born in the Southwest - Houston, to be exact - but it was his peripatetic early childhood moving frequently as his family followed his father's international career in geothermal energy that in many ways has led him to his latest job in New Mexico. "We spent a lot of time building in new places," Hammer says.
Co-founder of $100M startup incubator puts roots here and believes in New Mexico
Adam Hammer may have been born in the Southwest - Houston, to be exact - but it was his peripatetic early childhood moving frequently as his family followed his father's international career in geothermal energy that in many ways has led him to his latest job in New Mexico. "We spent a lot of time building in new places," Hammer says.
What to make of a more cooperative Mitch McConnell
Recently, over coffee with New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich, I was lamenting about how political dysfunction had driven me from Washington and how broken Congress seemed to be. In his quiet way, Heinrich corrected me. Jay Newton-Small is CEO and founder of PlanAllies, a patient engagement software company that is personalizing how health insurers connect with their members.
One woman's journey leads to entrepreneurship
If you lived in the Northeast Heights in 2018-2019 and ordered from Grubhub, odds are you might have had your food delivered by the new Romanian Honorary Consul to New Mexico, Ioana Engstrom. The serial entrepreneur and international corporate executive had suddenly come upon hard times after a company she and her husband had built for nearly a decade faced a serious cash crunch.
Here’s what McConnell owes the public
A few years after my father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, his neurologist reported him to the state of Florida, and he was required to go in for regular driving tests until one day, about 18 months later, he failed his test and was never allowed to drive again. has laws requiring retesting of drivers when a doctor (or in some cases a family member) reports them to be cognitively or physically impaired.
Opinion: McConnell’s health scare demands a better response Original
Editor’s Note: Jay Newton-Small is founder of MemoryWell, a digital platform that brings professional journalism skills to the challenge of helping elders tell their life stories. She is a contributor to TIME and the author of “Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works.” The views here are solely hers. View more opinion articles on CNN.
Navigating the challenges of dementia care and support
As the population grows larger and lives longer, dementia diagnoses are becoming increasingly common. With an estimated 6.5 million Americans age 65 and older living with Alzheimer's or dementia today - a number that stands to grow to 13.8 million by 2060 without a significant breakthrough in treatment - getting the proper support and care has become increasingly challenging.
COVID-19 Resource List for Seniors
Last month I wrote a column for CNN about the epidemic that existed pre-COVID, the epidemic of loneliness amongst seniors that COVID is now exacerbating. I listed a few resources at the end the piece, including MemoryWell’s own free timelines that help families engage around collecting senior stories and family histories virtually as a way to engage intergenerationally at a time when we’re all forced to be apart. In the weeks since, I’ve been inundated with dozens of resources for seniors.
The epidemic seniors in America were facing already
Jay Newton-Small is founder of MemoryWell, a digital platform that brings professional journalism skills to the challenge of helping elders tell their life stories. She is a contributor to TIME and the author of "Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works." The views here are solely hers. View more opinion articles on CNN.
Perspective | Biden promised to pick a female VP. That’s not ‘patronizing.’ It’s common sense.
Former vice president Joe Biden’s mid-debate promise to pick a female running mate, should he win the Democratic presidential nomination, was scorned by some conservative women: “Biden has done a disservice to his future running mate by emphasizing her gender rather than her accomplishments,” wrote Washington Examiner columnist Kaylee McGhee.
How to Keep Alzheimer’s From Bringing About the Zombie Apocalypse
I tried to kill my father for years. To be fair, I was following his wishes. He’d made it clear that when he no longer recognized me, when he could no longer talk, when the nurses started treating him like a toddler, he didn’t want to live any longer. My father was 58 years old when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
When my father forgot my name.
I tried to kill my father for years. To be fair, I was following his wishes. He’d made it clear that when he no longer recognized me, when he could no longer talk, when the nurses started treating him as a toddler, he didn’t want to live any longer. My father was 58 years old when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He took the diagnosis with the self-deprecating humor he’d spent a lifetime cultivating.
Immigration Reform is Dying in John Boehner's GOP House
House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he can’t see a path forward on immigration reform and asked President Barack Obama to do more on the issue. Translation: The House isn’t going to pass immigration reform this year but don’t blame Republicans, blame Obama.
Getting A Parent With Dementia The Best Long-Term Care For The Money
By Jay Newton-Small, Next Avenue Contributor Liz Kozlowski and her staff at Brookdale Senior Living’s Westlake Village, outside of Cleveland, knew that resident Ed Petrigac and his wife Yvonne had started an auto parts business. But it wasn’t until they read his life story that they realized he also had a love of cars. That knowledge helped the staff provide better, more patient-centered care for Petrigac, a Korean War veteran who lived in the facility’s memory-care unit.
Americans need more long-term care than ever but where are the workers to provide it?
Carmel Foster, 53, has been a senior caregiver for five years. After her divorce, she worked as an executive assistant for a while before realizing that she could become a professional caregiver for the elderly. She’d cared for her mother through kidney disease and her father with dementia back home in South Africa, and she’d enjoyed the hard work of caring for others. But Foster has had a tough time making ends meet.
The First 2020 Democratic Primary Debate Will Almost Certainly Skip A Key Healthcare Issue
Gracyn Robinson is a single mom of three. The 48-year-old worries about putting her kids through school, paying her rent and maintaining her job security as an interior designer for senior centers. But, on top of that already considerable load, she’s most worried these days about her parents. They’re in Kennebunkport, Maine, a 90-minute drive from where she lives in Lexington, Mass.
Female candidates running for president in 2020 have to overcome sexist beliefs — held by other women - The Lily
Jay Newton-Small May 22 May 22 Jay Newton-Small is the founder of MemoryWell and a former Time magazine correspondent. She is the author of “Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works.” There are already six women running for president in 2020, an unprecedented number, and two of them — Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.) — routinely poll in the top five among the nearly two dozen Democratic hopefuls.
Perspective | Female presidential candidates have to overcome the sexism — of other women
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) answers questions during a town hall-style event at Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas on March 1. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Jay Newton-Small is the founder of MemoryWell and a former Time magazine correspondent. She is the author of "Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works." May 17 There are already six women running for president in 2020, an unprecedented number, and two of them — Sens.
Blood for Oil: Kurdistan by Ivor Prickett
The semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq’s north is booming. Thanks to oil and gas money, five star hotels, luxury shopping malls and gardened pavilions are popping up all over the region. Tourists, drawn by the area’s relative security and stunning natural vistas, are following: Erbil, the regional capital, was named the Arab Council on Tourism’s place to visit for 2014. But a dispute over oil with Baghdad could threaten this newfound prosperity.
A Growing American Crisis: Who Will Care for the Baby Boomers?
Every day since her husband broke his hip, Beatrice Egger has been afraid. The 91-year-old retired teacher worries when William, 90, a retired principal, is in the shower. She worries when she is helping him get dressed and he unsteadily towers over her. And she worries when he moves from sitting to standing or from room to room. When he falls, which inevitably happens, she can call upon aides at their Issaquah, Wash., retirement home to help get him back up. But they can’t help her all the time.
A Growing American Crisis: Who Will Care for the Baby Boomers?
Newton-Small, a TIME contributor, is the CEO of MemoryWell and author of Broad Influence Every day since her husband broke his hip, Beatrice Egger has been afraid. The 91-year-old retired teacher worries when William, 90, a retired principal, is in the shower. She worries when she is helping him get dressed and he unsteadily towers over her. And she worries when he moves from sitting to standing or from room to room.
Sandra Day O'Connor brings quiet activism to facing dementia
Jay Newton-Small is the co-founder of MemoryWell, a digital platform that brings professional journalism skills to the challenge of helping elders tell their life stories. She is a contributor to TIME and the author of "Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works." The views here are solely hers. View more opinion articles on CNN. Sandra Day O'Connor would likely be the first person to tell you she's not an activist.
Why the Left Needs Nancy Pelosi
Still, over the last two years, Pelosi’s grasp on power has grown more tenuous. “In the past, the challenges to [her] leadership have come from the more moderate members,” said Michele Swers, a government professor at Georgetown who has written several books on women in Congress. Even now, many moderate Democrats are running on promises to oppose her speakership if elected. Clarke Tucker, a Democratic candidate in Arkansas, has vehemently criticized Pelosi’s leadership.
The Migrating, Evolving Age Beat: From Offset to Online
I was winding down the marathon of covering a presidential election in 2016, when I met with my editors at TIME Magazine to discuss what I would cover after the election. “How about aging?” I suggested. My editors hesitated: How about the White House? Or, at least, politics? For many legacy news outlets like TIME, diminished profits and shrinking staffs have forced hard decisions and marginalized topics like aging.
Silicon Valley Is a Boys Club. But This City Is Surprisingly Good for Women in Tech
When Amelia Friedman, 24, needed money to launch her app-building tech startup, Hatch Apps, in the summer of 2016, she didn’t have to go far. The Washington, D.C. native found an enormous ecosystem of friends and supporters in the capital region eager to fund Hatch themselves or connect her to others who could and would. In the end, Hatch’s $1 million seed round was more than half funded by Friedman’s contacts. Friedman’s story might have ended differently in another part of the country.
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