The New Mexico Supreme Court issued a ruling in favor of the lead plaintiff in a voting rights case. At issue is a history of adults of voting age who have been excluded from the right to vote. The League of Women Voters of New Mexico was the lead plaintiff in the case. They argued that the New Mexico Compilation Commission had made an error in failing to put constitutional amendments approved by New Mexico voters — amendments that expanded the right to vote —  into state law.

Members of the La Montanita Coop have launched a website and petition to "Take Back the Coop" from alleged corporate control. The member activists claim that a national consulting firm is influencing small food coops in New Mexico and across the nation against the interests and values of the member-owners. Senior management for La Montanita contends that the democratic process is alive and well.

For our last StoryCorps segment from Nuestras Historias we have a conversation between Lebeo Martinez one of the pillars of the Dixon community, and his good friend and series narrator, Joe Cidio. They review growing up in Dixon in the 1930s and ‘40s.

Rio Arriba county including Espanola and Chimayo have a heroin  overdose rate that is five times the national rate. Now a brand new community center has opened, focused on the idea that addiction is a soul sickness and requires a new approach in order to succeed. I visited them yesterday. Lupe Salazar who is board president of Barrios Unidos is seeking help from the community and invites interested listeners from northern New Mexico to send her an email at lupe.salazar67@gmail.com.

Yesterday marked 15 years since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Dave Marash speaks today to Vice News investigative reporter Jason Leopold about a little covered aspect of the 9/11 investigations. Those concern the 29 pages of a 2002 Congressional investigation detailing the possible role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks. Courtesy of our colleague Dave Marash, here is a preview of Jason Leopold of Vice News speaking to Dave on Here and There about the money trail connecting two of the terrorists to the Saudi Ambassador in Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.

Legally speaking, Friday was a day of whiplash for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the people following the tribe-led protests against Dakota Access Pipeline. Santa Fe Civil Rights Lawyer Jeffrey Haas was on the scene in Cannonball, ND Friday as two back-to-back events occurred. He fills us in now. 

  Mabel Dodge Luhan brought modern art to Taos with her arrival in 1918.

This is the story behind “Mabel Dodge Luhan and Company: American Moderns and the West.” The exhibition has had a run this summer at the Harwood Museum in Taos. it runs at the Harwood through this Sunday.  I spoke to MaLin Wilson-Powell who co-curated the show with Lois Rudnick, the author of the definitive Mabel Dodge Luhan biography.

  When an unaccompanied minor is caught illegally crossing the American border, that child goes into the custody of the Department of Homeland Security. The federal government has standards for how these kids are treated before they are released. But Susan Terrio, the author of WHOSE CHILD AM I?, told Dave Marash those standards are not always upheld.

20 million people get their drinking water from the Missouri River. In North Dakota the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline would be built beneath the river and the drinking water source for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. 

Yesterday we spoke with Sarah Knopp a Santa Fe citizen activist who is there. Today I reached Jeffrey Haas.  Haas has been in ND since last week.  He updates us about the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s lawsuit against the US Army Corps of Engineers — and a second lawsuit by the pipeline operator against the protesters.