New Mexico
New Mexico Voices for Children has new leadership – NM Political Report
New Mexico Voices for Children, an organization that focuses on tax policy and how it impacts children in poverty, has new leadership. Gabrielle Uballez replaces Amber Wallin as executive director of the nonprofit. Uballez began her new position last month. Uballez told NM Political Report that her interest in advocacy work was sparked when she […]
New Mexico Voices for Children, an organization that focuses on tax policy and how it impacts children in poverty, has new leadership.
Gabrielle Uballez replaces Amber Wallin as executive director of the nonprofit. Uballez began her new position last month.
Uballez told NM Political Report that her interest in advocacy work was sparked when she was a child living in New Mexico. After school and during summer breaks, she participated in a program called Working Classroom, which provides art mentors to youth to build art skills focused on advocacy and social justice. Uballez attributes that early experience to her desire to build a career in advocacy around social justice.
Uballez began her professional career working for an organization in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City before returning to Albuquerque to lead Working Classroom for several years. In that role, she worked with youth to amplify issues that mattered to local communities, including art that focused on gun violence and prevention, immigration and social justice, she said.
Most recently Uballez worked in philanthropy work for Asset Funders Network, a membership organization focused on equitable wealth building and economic mobility. She said that in that role, she was involved in supporting philanthropy that took a broad view that supporting family economic stability means “everything from a person’s health and ability to build stability and wealth, housing and good paying jobs.”
“We supported philanthropies that supported systems change,” she said.
Uballez said she connected to New Mexico Voices for Children through that work. She said she also realized she wanted to be more engaged in policy advocacy.
She said that when she realized Wallin was leaving for another role, Uballez knew she wanted to apply because of how NMVC “shows up in coalition spaces.”
“They have a track record for getting really great policy change,” she said.
Uballez said she considers NMVC a leader in tax policy. She said she believes in the idea that a budget is a moral document.
“That’s the root of inequity… How the state collects New Mexicans’ revenue gets to the heart of inequality,” she said.
Uballez said she doesn’t have any specific tax policy in mind yet but she said she expects the organization to do more tax fairness work. NMVC pushed for a child tax credit policy, which allows eligible families to earn up to $600 per child in child tax credits.
State and federal child tax credits improve equity for children of color in the state
“We’ve made great strides to make sure those who make the least don’t pay the most,” she said.
She said one area to consider for the future is guaranteed income and what that might look like in New Mexico.
“It gives families dignity and the resources to decide where to put the money, in summer camps, home repairs, or food. They are the experts in their own lives,” she said.
She said another policy that NMVC is not the lead advocate on but is part of a coalition pushing for change is the Paid Family and Medical Leave bill that failed in the 2024 and 2023 legislatures when some Democrats sided with Republicans to kill the bill.
“We’re going to get it passed next year,” she said.
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Powerball
23-35-59-63-68, Powerball: 02, Power Play: 4
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Pick 3
Day: 2-3-6
Evening: 4-5-5
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Lotto America
08-11-29-36-50, Star Ball: 07, ASB: 02
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Pick 4
Evening: 2-5-0-2
Day: 7-2-1-6
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Roadrunner Cash
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Powerball Double Play
20-23-38-42-65, Powerball: 19
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New Mexico
New Mexico expanding use of gun and bullet scanning technology to more easily link crimes
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – State-of-the-art tech, credited with cracking some of the metro’s highest profile gun crimes, is now getting deployed across the state. A handful of new bullet casing scanners are being deployed in four new regional hubs stretching from Farmington to Roswell. The goal is to link evidence from shooting cases across city and county lines in rural communities. “What makes this different is that we very intentionally distributed these machines and the personnel necessary to run the machines across the state, so that the state itself could conduct its own comprehensive analysis,” said New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez.
The New Mexico Department of Justice will be at the center of the effort with their new Crime Gun Intelligence Center. He said they’ll be the only AG’s office in the country managing a statewide program that scans bullet casings and guns found at crime scenes. Analysts will then figure out what crime scenes could be connected. The AG is deploying the scanning machines to Farmington, Gallup, Roswell, and Las Cruces. The scans get uploaded in the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, or NIBIN database, to see if the same gun was used at different scenes.
It’s the same technology the Albuquerque Police Department used to figure out and arrest the people tied to shootings at elected officials’ homes in Albuquerque. “Instead of waiting weeks and months to connect discovery, investigators now can link shootings from firearms, shell casings, and suspects in a matter of hours or days, and cases that once appeared isolated can now quickly be connected, helping us identify repeat offenders and patterns of violent activity more quickly,” said San Juan County Sheriff Shane Ferrari.
Right now, almost every community outside the metro has to bring in its bullet casing evidence to Albuquerque in order to get it scanned and sent into the federal NIBIN system. The process can take six to 12 months. “Rural communities often cover large geographical areas with limited resources, and crime does not stop at the city limits,” said Sheriff Ferrari.
The attorney general said the machines being deployed will be used as regional hubs, available for any New Mexico police agency to use.
The New Mexico Department of Justice got a million dollars from the feds, with the help of Senator Martin Heinrich, to stand up the system, which they said is ready to start on Tuesday. AG Torrez called out state lawmakers for not helping fund the initiative. “It is a system that is broken. It’s a system that can be fixed. and the only thing we lack at this moment is the political will to do so,” said AG Torrez.
An event allowed families and their kids to spread holiday cheer and prevent the spread of viruses and illnesses this season.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One could say that holiday cheer is usually infectious as you see pure joy on kids faces as they line up to see Santa Claus or light the menorah.
Unfortunately, this time of the year, that’s not the only thing that is infectious. Flu season is now in full swing but local organizations recently came together to spread the good and try to prevent the bad.
“We want to make sure that we’re there for the community as a destination point, not just for culture and celebration, but also for everyday needs, like health care,” Zackary Quintero, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
Families came to the National Hispanic Cultural Center on Sunday to meet Pancho Claus – or Santa Claus – and get their holiday fun on but many also came to get protected.
“The main goal is for all New Mexicans to be proactive in the prevention and not just when they have to go to the emergency room. We want them to be proactive in seeking medical care regardless of if they have insurance,” said Monica Toquinto, coordinator for Ventanilla de Salud.
Being proactive includes getting flu shots or glucose testing. These are services the Mexican Consulate’s Ventanilla de Salud (Window of Health) offers for free.
“In the day-to-day, the community may not go, because of work or other things, to the Consulate. We try to bring all these services we do along with our partners to the communities,” Head Consul Patricia Pinzón said.
According to Pinzón, people are coming to the Consulate in Albuquerque not just for the Ventanilla but because they’re scared as they see more and more immigration raids nationwide and locally.
“It’s an opportunity to inform the community to let them know that they are not alone, that we are here,” Pinzón said.
The Mexican Consulate partners with University of New Mexico Health Science Services on Ventanilla de Salud. They see how the the fear of deportation or arrest is keeping people at home during a time when vaccine hesitancy is already high.
“In this particular administration, there’s even more fear among Latino populations for their relatives that are immigrants. That plays into interfacing with anywhere in the public. People have come to be afraid of what vaccines do and don’t do and we want to overcome that,” said Cosette Wheeler, executive director of Ventanilla de Salud.
Ventanilla de Salud is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Consulate. They offer other services, like legal help, every weekday.
To learn more about services at the Consulate of Mexico in Albuquerque, click here. For information about the Ventanilla de Salud, click here.
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