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Lawmakers want attorney general to create new task force on missing and murdered Indigenous people
By Bella Davis/NM In Depth Five New Mexico lawmakers want the state attorney general to establish a task force focused on missing and murdered Indigenous people. They’ve made the request via Senate Joint Memorial 2, which they introduced this week. The memorial puts on display the disagreement some lawmakers have with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s quiet shuttering last year of […]
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As investigations into police corruption expand, legislators consider hefty fines for public corruption
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Should guns be allowed in polling places? Senator’s push for gun-free voting clears committee
By Daniel J. Chacón | Santa Fe New Mexican Don’t take your guns to vote, son. Gun owners in New Mexico would have to leave their firearms at home before going to a polling place or face up to six months in jail and a $500 fine under a bill that cleared its first legislative […]
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1-in-5 state jobs is vacant. Agencies still ask legislators for 1,600 more positions.
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$500 million for affordable housing clears first committee
PATRICK LOHMANN/ Source New Mexico A Senate committee on Monday approved legislation that would put half a billion dollars toward affordable housing in New Mexico – a huge investment that one lawmaker said is necessary to stem the tide of homelessness and rising housing costs in the state. Sen. Nancy Rodriguez (D-Santa Fe) acknowledged that […]
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Gov’s push for panhandling law meets pushback
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Bill would stop libraries from banning books
Nicole Maxwell/Source New Mexico A bill in the state legislature proposes preventing public libraries from banning books based on political or religious views from what one of the bill’s sponsors calls “hate groups.” HB 123 aims to prevent public libraries from receiving funding if they do not adopt and comply with the American Library Association’s Library Bill […]
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Five things Gov. Lujan Grisham is asking for this legislative session
By Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico | In a speech to state lawmakers on Tuesday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham outlined wide-ranging priorities for a packed 30-day session that she said would “capitalize on this momentum” generated in the four years since she became governor in 2019. Between several interruptions by a group of environmental and […]
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Activists interrupt New Mexico State of the State address
by Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico | Protesters disrupted Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s State of the State address on Tuesday calling on her and lawmakers to demand a transition away from fossil fuels and a ceasefire in Gaza. Three separate times, protesters stood up from their seats in the gallery above the House of Representatives […]