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Failing State, Failing LANL Region
updated Feb 17, 2026

 • Failing State: How New Mexico Ranks, table, updated Dec 30, 2025

LASG yard sign, January 2026

 • These Are America's Healthiest States, ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2026

 • Survey: Punitive damages prompting physicians to leave New Mexico, Colleen Heild, Albuquerque Journal, Jan 19, 2026

 • Police records bear out rising road rage in Santa Fe, Nicholas Gilmore, Santa Fe New Mexican, Dec 13, 2025

 • No silver bullet for New Mexico’s medical professional shortage, Trip Jennings, New Mexico in Depth, Nov 21, 2025

 • Overdose deaths, emergency room visits increase in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, Taos counties, Margaret O'Hara, Santa Fe New Mexican, Sep 18, 2025, updated Nov 17, 2025

 • Ranked: America’s Most Dangerous Cities, According to Citizens, Visual Capitalist, Oct 11, 2025

 • NM resident puts up billboards highlighting state's worst statistics ahead of Balloon Fiesta, KRQE, Sep 30, 2025

 • Despite spending increases, report finds NM health care access not improving, Dan Boyd, Albuquerque Journal, Sep 23, 2025

 • Drug overdose deaths, ER visits rise in Taos, Santa Fe and Rio Arriba counties, John Miller, Albuquerque Journal, Sep 18, 2025

 • Recent Drug Overdose Data Trends, Substance Use Epidemiology Section, NMDH, Sep 18, 2025

 • 'People live here': Despite efforts by lab, county, many drivers in Los Alamos still feel roads are unsafe, Alaina Mencinger, Santa Fe New Mexican, with published comments by Greg Mello, Sep 13, 2025

 • Despite significant investment, New Mexico's behavioral health rankings slip, Daniel J. Chacon, Santa Fe New Mexican, Jun 26, 2025, updated Sep 10, 2025

 • Report: Rio Arriba County Sheriff Merrifield died from fentanyl, alcohol overdose, Nicholas Gilmore, Santa Fe New Mexican, May 15, 2025, updated Sep 10, 2025

 • 2025 Kids Count Data Book Interactive, Health, Annie E. Casey Foundation

 • Deaths due to Drug Overdose by County, New Mexico, 2019-2023, New Mexico's Health Indicator Data & Statistics, NM IBIS

 • Health Status Health Topics, NM IBIS

 • Rio Arriba officials: Emergency funds crucial to support strained public safety resources, Data shows steady crime rates, spike in overdoses, John Miller, Albuquerque Journal, Sep 7, 2025

 • Featured Will New Mexico's big investment in behavioral health programs pay off?, Dan Boyd, Albuquerque Journal, Jun 25, 2025

 • Medicaid: Access to Healthcare and Evidence-Based Services, NM Legislative Finance Committee, Legis Stat, Jun 24, 2025

 • If Los Alamos is bringing economic development to New Mexico, why is the neighboring County of Rio Arriba performing so poorly?, LASG research note, updated May 16, 2025

 • Failing State: How New Mexico Ranks Despite massive spending over 8 decades and recent growth, New Mexico's nuclear labs have not brought economic development, LASG press release, Jan 8, 2025

 • Bulletin 296: The troubled logistics of LANL pit production: how will LANL staff and contractors get to work?, Mar 26, 2022

 • Video of traffic leaving Los Alamos National Laboratory on NM State Road 4, Mar 24, 2022

 • Drone video of traffic leaving LANL on NM State Road 4, Mar 24, 2022

 • How Will LANL Staff and Contractors Get to Work?, Savannah LaRosa-LoPresti, Research Associate, Mar 11, 2022

 • Does Los Alamos National Lab Help or Hurt the New Mexico Economy? Working Paper, Jul 2006, Greg Mello

LASG billboard on I-40, January 2020
Also: see our Jan 30, 2020 press release, "Billboard aimed at traffic entering NM raises the question: Is New Mexico a "failed state," and are nuclear weapons partly responsible? for more information.



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