Morgan’s Recent Stories
Health May 19
Outbreak on edge of Navajo Nation overwhelms rural hospitalWhile much of New Mexico is showing signs of emerging from the initial wave of the pandemic, stubbornly high rates of infection and death persist in the state's northwest corner — including in the Navajo Nation that extends into Arizona…
Health May 14
Virus tests hospitals in pockets of U.S. as some states reopenCoronavirus outbreaks are testing the public health networks in pockets of the U.S., while some states prepare to lift lockdown measures, seeing signs of progress.
Health May 09
Small tribes seal borders, push testing to keep out virusSmall Native American pueblos across New Mexico are embracing extraordinary isolation measures that turn away outsiders as well as near-universal testing to try to insulate themselves from a contagion with frightening echoes of the past.
Politics Feb 13
New Mexico bid for recreational pot falls shortThe vote illustrates the difficulties of using the legislative process and not a ballot initiative to fully legalizing marijuana.
Nation Sep 27
Joe Wilson, skeptic on Iraq War intelligence, dies at age 69Wilson died of organ failure in Santa Fe, said his former wife, Valerie Plame, whose identity as a CIA operative was exposed days after Wilson's criticism of U.S. intelligence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase uranium.
Nation Sep 13
Fugitive priest sentenced to 30 years in New Mexico sexual abuse caseA former Roman Catholic priest who fled the country decades ago was sentenced Friday in New Mexico to 30 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing an altar boy at a veterans' cemetery and military…
Politics Aug 07
Texas governor says ‘no red flags’ seen in El Paso gunmanTexas Gov. Greg Abbott's first calls for action after a gunman in El Paso killed 22 people include cracking down on internet sites used by violent extremists and confronting racism. But the Republican didn't suggest any major gun-control measures.
Nation Aug 04
Sister: El Paso shooting victim, 25, ‘gave her life’ for sonA 25-year-old woman who was shot while apparently shielding her 2-month-old son was among the 20 people killed when a gunman opened fire in a crowded El Paso shopping area, her sister said.
Nation Apr 14
Trump sanctuary city idea could help migrants stay in USAn idea floated by President Donald Trump to send immigrants from the border to “sanctuary cities” to exact revenge on Democratic foes could end up doing the migrants a favor by placing them in locations that make it easier to…
Nation Mar 12
New Mexico weighs pot legalization and America’s first government-run shopsThe idea for state-run pot shops comes from a trio of GOP state senators who broke with local Republican Party orthodoxy to embrace legal marijuana with a decidedly big-government approach that would have the state directly oversee most sales —…