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Senior Reporter @sourcenm.com / formerly: Searchlight New Mexico, The Arizona Republic/azcentral / contact me on signal: joshuabowling.02

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Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · 6h ago

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science announced Tuesday that two of its paleontologists had identified a new bird-like dinosaur species after first discovering an unusual skull fossil in San Juan County in the summer of 2005. sourcenm.com/2026/08/05/n...

New Mexico scientists announce discovery of  ‘beefy’ new bird-like dinosaur in San Juan County • Source New Mexico

Dinevenator robustus may have been up to 10 feet long and lived in New Mexico more than 70 million years ago.

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joshua bowling🌵@cosmicbowling.bsky.social · yesterday

An Albuquerque anti-poverty nonprofit is asking state utility regulators to order a hearing over whether the parent company of New Mexico’s largest electric provider forfeited a $350 million payment from the private equity firm looking to acquire it.

Opponents ask New Mexico utility regulators to review whether PNM waived multimillion payout • Source New Mexico

An attorney alleged that PNM's parent company waived a $350 million payment from the private equity firm looking to acquire it.

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Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · 5d ago

A public hearing over whether the New Mexico Environment Department should issue an air quality permit for the controversial Project Jupiter data center is being rescheduled to September, according to newly filed documents.

Hearing for Project Jupiter data center’s air quality permit application rescheduled to September • Source New Mexico

A public hearing over an air quality permit application related to the Project Jupiter data center has been rescheduled for September.

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joshua bowling🌵@cosmicbowling.bsky.social · 5d ago

After telling a (virtual) room of attorneys he’d keep the October hearing date, the hearing officer presiding over the matter uploaded an amended order showing he was moving it, instead, to Sept. 14. When I reached him, he declined to comment.

Hearing for Project Jupiter data center’s air quality permit application rescheduled to September • Source New Mexico

A public hearing over an air quality permit application related to the Project Jupiter data center has been rescheduled for September.

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Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · last wk.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced his office filed a lawsuit against the state’s child welfare agency following reports that agency staffers took a teenage boy out of foster care and told him to cross the Mexican border to reunite with his estranged mother in Ciudad Juárez.

New Mexico AG sues CYFD over reports that staff instructed foster teen to cross Mexican border • Source New Mexico

New Mexico's AG sued the state's child welfare agency amid reports that staff instructed a child to walk alone across the Mexican border.

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joshua bowling🌵@cosmicbowling.bsky.social · last wk.

I’ve been at UNM in Albuquerque all afternoon, following a public comment hearing on the proposed private equity takeover of NM’s largest electric provider Read all about the hearing here:

New Mexico residents turn out to UNM campus to weigh in on proposed private equity takeover of PNM • Source New Mexico

New Mexicans filled a university ballroom to weigh in on a proposed private equity takeover of PNM, the state's largest electric provider.

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Ian James@ianjames.bsky.social · last wk.

Hundreds of military bases have been putting off cleanup of toxic PFAS chemicals in water for years. The latest round of delays, which the Pentagon recently posted in an obscure corner of its website, has pushed some deadlines out decades, or removed them altogether. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

U.S. military bases delay cleanup of toxic "forever chemicals"

The military is delaying the cleanup of toxic PFAS, or "forever chemicals", at hundreds of bases across the U.S., sometimes for more than a decade.

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joshua bowling🌵@cosmicbowling.bsky.social · 2w ago

The New Mexico Supreme Court on Wednesday shot down a lawsuit from three Republicans challenging the legality of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s first-in-the-nation universal childcare initiative.

New Mexico Supreme Court strikes down Republican lawsuit challenging universal childcare • Source New Mexico

The New Mexico Supreme Court shot down a Republican lawsuit aimed at Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's universal childcare program.

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Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · 2w ago

More than 18,000 New Mexicans, most of them children, lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits between July 2025 and April 2026, according to the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities' new analysis.

More than 10,000 New Mexico kids have lost federal food assistance in last year, new analysis shows • Source New Mexico

New Mexico kids comprise 56% of the 18,000 SNAP recipients who lost federal food assistance between July 2025 and April 2026.

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Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · 2w ago

The Bureau of Land Management recently opened a two-week period for the public to comment on a proposal to eliminate or shrink the 10-mile mining protections around Chaco, a spiritually and culturally significant site for many of New Mexico’s pueblos and tribes.

New Mexico Indigenous and federal officials urge outcry on proposed rollback of Chaco protections • Source New Mexico

New Mexico's Indigenous leaders and federal delegation spoke outside the U.S. Capitol to oppose BLM plans to undo Chaco Canyon protections.

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Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · 2w ago

Ken Miyagishima, a former longtime mayor of Las Cruces who couldn’t get on New Mexico’s November ballot as an independent gubernatorial candidate, is dropping out of the race and backing former Rio Rancho mayor and Republican nominee Gregg Hull.

Independent New Mexico governor candidate drops out, endorses Republican nominee Gregg Hull • Source New Mexico

Ken Miyagishima, the former Las Cruces mayor running for New Mexico governor, dropped out of the race and endorsed Republican Gregg Hull.

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Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · 4w ago

The lawsuit, based on new evidence the State Ethics Commission recently unearthed, aims to immediately halt NM probation officers' practice of referring undocumented probationers to federal immigration agents. buff.ly/5DEomn3

New Mexico State Ethics Commission sues state Corrections secretary over probation ICE referrals • Source New Mexico

New evidence the State Ethics Commission received regarding widespread probation officer referrals to ICE agents prompted the lawsuit.

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Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · 4w ago

Lawyers for New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the state Early Childhood Education and Care Department on Thursday argued that a Republican lawsuit before the state Supreme Court over the state’s universal childcare program is “less a legal challenge than a political lament.”

New Mexico Gov’s office argues universal childcare lawsuit is ‘imaginary constitutional crisis’ • Source New Mexico

Lawyers for the state responded to a legal challenge over New Mexico's universal childcare program pending before the state Supreme Court.

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Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · 4w ago

The committee tasked with overseeing the reconstruction of New Mexico’s behavioral health care infrastructure on Thursday unanimously approved an $8 million plan for the second of 13 regional proposals aimed at doing so.

New Mexico behavioral health committee signs off on $8M plan for northern region • Source New Mexico

The committee tasked with overseeing the repair of New Mexico's behavioral health system approved the second of 13 regional plans.

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Julia Tilton@juliatilton.com · last mo.

Today for the Daily Yonder, my colleague Sarah Melotte and I mapped the data center boom as it relates to rural America. We looked at where rural data centers are being built, where rural data centers are being opposed, and how construction maps onto existing grid infrastructure.

The Daily Yonder@dailyyonder.bsky.social · last mo.

Though the majority of data centers are located in urban or suburban areas, rural communities face unique challenges in the data center development landscape.