By Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico As home insurance grows increasingly expensive and unavailable in some fire-prone areas of New Mexico, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers agree the market can’t provide adequate coverage to protect homes here against future disasters. Lawmakers in both parties told Source New Mexico they are exploring different ways during the […]
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Posted inNew Mexico, New Mexico, State Government, Syndicated
NM GOP and Democrats say state needs to fix home insurance, as disasters upend private market
By Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico As home insurance grows increasingly expensive and unavailable in some fire-prone areas of New Mexico, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers agree the market can’t provide adequate coverage to protect homes here against future disasters. Lawmakers in both parties told Source New Mexico they are exploring different ways during the […]
Posted inNew Mexico, State Government
WATCH: Gov. Lujan Grisham’s 2025 State of the State Address
Courtesy of New Mexico PBS, the video of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s State of the State address to the New Mexico Legislature is below. The governor gives the speech to a joint session of the Legislature, along with many guests of legislators and dignitaries, on the first day of each legislative session.
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WATCH: Gov. Lujan Grisham’s 2025 State of the State Address
Courtesy of New Mexico PBS, the video of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s State of the State address to the New Mexico Legislature is below. The governor gives the speech to a joint session of the Legislature, along with many guests of legislators and dignitaries, on the first day of each legislative session.
Posted inState Government, State News, Syndicated
Advocates will back legislation to expand NM sex ed curriculum
by Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico When Jade Waskow attended Albuquerque Public Schools, she took a sexual education course in junior high, but it wasn’t until she was in high school she learned on her own that she is “ace,” or asexual, so sex didn’t really interest her. Her schooling hadn’t even presented her identity […]
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Advocates will back legislation to expand NM sex ed curriculum
by Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico When Jade Waskow attended Albuquerque Public Schools, she took a sexual education course in junior high, but it wasn’t until she was in high school she learned on her own that she is “ace,” or asexual, so sex didn’t really interest her. Her schooling hadn’t even presented her identity […]
Posted inAlbuquerque, BernCo, County Government, Housing & Homelessness, State Government
UNM Health won’t endorse behavioral health Medicaid waiver plan
A proposal to stabilize scores of New Mexicans at risk of institutionalization or jail due to severe mental health issues has bounced around the Homeless Coordinating Council’s (HCC) agenda for months: Should the group vote on whether to endorse what is now proposed state legislation before University of New Mexico Health System representatives weigh in? […]
Posted inAlbuquerque, BernCo, County Government, Housing & Homelessness, State Government
UNM Health won’t endorse behavioral health Medicaid waiver plan
A proposal to stabilize scores of New Mexicans at risk of institutionalization or jail due to severe mental health issues has bounced around the Homeless Coordinating Council’s (HCC) agenda for months: Should the group vote on whether to endorse what is now proposed state legislation before University of New Mexico Health System representatives weigh in? […]
Posted inHousing & Homelessness, State Government
Is this the year the state’s rent control prohibition ends?
A vocal coalition that includes state lawmakers will once again try to get New Mexico’s prohibition on rent control repealed at the legislative session that begins Jan. 21 in Santa Fe. The group hopes a longer 60-day session this year will give the effort more legs after it failed to gain traction during last year’s […]
Posted inHousing & Homelessness, State Government
Is this the year the state’s rent control prohibition ends?
A vocal coalition that includes state lawmakers will once again try to get New Mexico’s prohibition on rent control repealed at the legislative session that begins Jan. 21 in Santa Fe. The group hopes a longer 60-day session this year will give the effort more legs after it failed to gain traction during last year’s […]