Julia Goldberg

Santa Fe

Editor-in-Chief at Source New Mexico

Editor-in-Chief Source NM. Author: Inside Story- Everyone's Guide to Reporting & Writing Creative Nonfiction

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'We just have to have hope and to fight' • Source New Mexico

1 week ago | sourcenm.com | Julia Goldberg

Folk-song parodies, a Melania Trump impersonator and no shortage of sign-toting canines marked the Santa Fe, iteration of the nationwide No Kings protests on Saturday, one of more than a dozen planned across New Mexico. The event coincided with a military parade in Washington, D.C., ostensibly for the Army’s 250th anniversary, but also for President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, and in the aftermath of a week that featured military deployment by Trump to Los Angeles immigration protests.
New Mexico delegation, radiation victims renew call for compensation

2 weeks ago | sourcenm.com | Julia Goldberg

by Julia Goldberg, Source New Mexico June 10, 2025 In the one year since the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expired, New Mexico survivors of federal nuclear testing programs said they have continued to watch family members and friends die. The RECA legislation, passed in 1990, compensated people who developed cancers or other illnesses as a result of radiation exposure from the United States’ atomic programs.
Progress takes time, and New Mexico children can’t afford to wait

2 weeks ago | sourcenm.com | Gabrielle Uballez |Julia Goldberg

New Mexicans are a people of strength, resilience, and deep-rooted pride—shaped by our commitment to community and our dedication to the well-being of families. That’s why it’s painful to reconcile our values with the news in this week’s release of state rankings on child well-being from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual KIDS COUNT® Data Book. Once again, New Mexico is ranked 50th. Two things are true: progress takes time—and our children can’t afford to wait.
NM Immigration Rights Groups Decry Trump list of NM Sanctuary Counties, Cities

2 weeks ago | riograndesun.com | Julia Goldberg

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, May 29, released a list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” it says “are deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws endangering American communities.
Albuquerque to Kharkiv, Part 2: Underground schools

3 weeks ago | sourcenm.com | Cecilia Nowell |Julia Goldberg

by Cecilia Nowell, Source New Mexico June 4, 2025 KHARKIV, Ukraine— In the shadow of the school they would have once attended, two third-grade boys paddle a ping-pong ball back and forth. Like many of the world’s children, they and their classmates switched to online learning when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020. But, unlike children in the US, these boys never went back to their old classrooms. Two third grade boys play ping pong outside of their neighborhood school in Kharkiv.
Albuquerque to Kharkiv, Part 1: The Ambulance

3 weeks ago | sourcenm.com | Cecilia Nowell |Julia Goldberg

KHARKIV, Ukraine— It’s been three days since Yevhen Vasylenko has slept through the night, and a deep worry line has worn its way across his forehead. A spokesperson for the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv’s Emergency Situations Department, Vasylenko says missile and drone attacks have awakened him each night. Two nights earlier, Russia’s biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv to date had left at least 12 dead and 90 injured.
NM immigration rights groups decry Trump list of NM sanctuary counties, cities

3 weeks ago | lasvegasoptic.com | Julia Goldberg

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday released a list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” it says “are deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws endangering American communities.
NM immigration rights groups decry Trump list of NM sanctuary counties, cities

4 weeks ago | sourcenm.com | Julia Goldberg

11:20 News Story Civil RightsImmigration Department of Homeland Security lists 23 of NM’s 33 counties The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday released a list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” it says “are deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws endangering American communities.
Hunger will increase across America

1 month ago | sourcenm.com | Darryl Wellington |Julia Goldberg

by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, Source New Mexico May 28, 2025 Being a freelance writer, I have had my own financial ups and downs. My own experience with poverty, and with paying bills that you really lack the funds to pay, leaves me flabbergasted by the short-sightedness behind the massive budget package that passed the U.S House of Representatives.
From the Roundhouse to the White House: An interview with NM Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham

1 month ago | sourcenm.com | Julia Goldberg

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham still uses coffee left over from Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration, which she describes in less-than-flattering terms before offering some at the outset of this interview (we declined). She drank from a mug festooned with the New Mexico flag and noted that her staff had been mocking her all day for wearing metallic pants.