We Can Have Nice Things
Stephanie Nakhleh, Daniel Werwath, Roger Valdez, Carlos GemoraStephanie Nakhleh is a journalist from Los Alamos covering how policy shapes daily life. She writes about systems, housing, and local government—and what it takes to build a future that works better for more people.
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The abundance mullet
A year ago, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson published Abundance, arguing that America’s central political failure isn’t inequality per se—it’s that we’ve lost the ability to build things that regular Americans need: housing, energy, infrastru...
The driver never saw her
This is the second of two pieces on recent road safety news in Los Alamos. Part I covered the facts: an 11-year-old hit in a crosswalk on Central Avenue in March, a man killed in a different crosswalk two days later, and a May 7 Trans...
Does Los Alamos have a crosswalk problem?
The crosswalk at Central Ave. and 20th St., otherwise known as “the crosswalk by Fuller Lodge.” Author photo.
On the evening of March 13, 11-year-old Althea was in the crosswalk near Fuller Lodge, “two steps from the sidewalk,” as she told...
Beyond Band-Aids: rethinking road safety from the ground up
After years of constant reminders that “road safety is a shared responsibility,” and the more recent “slodwn/bklup” billboards, New Mexico still has one of the highest pedestrian fatality rates in the country. People are dying while walking...
Senator Heinrich, Administrator Williams: walk Los Alamos with me
“I know you've been to Los Alamos. It's sort of an island community on top of a mesa. There's not a lot of extra space to put housing. And so, I secured language … asking NNSA to look at that and come up with potential solutions to the hous...
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Stephanie Nakhleh is a journalist from Los Alamos covering how policy shapes daily life. She writes about systems, housing, and local government—and what it takes to build a future that works better for more people.
Working on housing affordability for the last couple decades in New Mexico and the Mountain West.
I work with regulations, land use, housing, and economic development for communities around New Mexico.
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