This story is republished from NM Political Report, a nonprofit news outlet, as a part of our commitment to bringing you the best in independent news coverage that matters to Albuquerque. By Nicole Maxwell Albuquerque’s U.S. representative along with the outgoing U.S. secretary of the interior — who’s rumored to be eyeing a run for […]
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New Mexico invests $750k in NewBridge’s CBD Production Expansion in Estancia Valley
An agriculture technology company plans a major expansion in the Estancia Valley to grow and integrate its farming, processing, manufacturing and distribution businesses centered around industrial-scale hemp and CBD. NewBridge Global Ventures and the New Mexico Economic Development Department announced last week that the San Francisco-based AgTech company is close to finishing a CBD processing […]
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New Mexico invests $750k in NewBridge’s CBD Production Expansion in Estancia Valley
An agriculture technology company plans a major expansion in the Estancia Valley to grow and integrate its farming, processing, manufacturing and distribution businesses centered around industrial-scale hemp and CBD. NewBridge Global Ventures and the New Mexico Economic Development Department announced last week that the San Francisco-based AgTech company is close to finishing a CBD processing […]
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EPA investigating City of ABQ and City Council for possible civil rights violations
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday an investigation into the City of Albuquerque and the City Council in response to a complaint that alleges possible civil rights violations. The Mountain View Coalition and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center filed the complaint May 2024, alleging that the council violated the federal Civil Rights Act […]
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EPA investigating City of ABQ and City Council for possible civil rights violations
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday an investigation into the City of Albuquerque and the City Council in response to a complaint that alleges possible civil rights violations. The Mountain View Coalition and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center filed the complaint May 2024, alleging that the council violated the federal Civil Rights Act […]
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Food trucks on every corner
Bernalillo County Commissioners approved a zoning change this week that will potentially swell the ranks of food trucks in the county. The trucks, also known as mobile food establishments, will be allowed to operate in areas zoned for commercial and light industrial uses, setting up the possibility of new mobile food courts. Previous regulations permitted […]
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Food trucks on every corner
Bernalillo County Commissioners approved a zoning change this week that will potentially swell the ranks of food trucks in the county. The trucks, also known as mobile food establishments, will be allowed to operate in areas zoned for commercial and light industrial uses, setting up the possibility of new mobile food courts. Previous regulations permitted […]
Posted inNew Mexico State Gov., New Mexico Statewide News, Westside Albuquerque
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 inNew Mexico State Gov., New Mexico Statewide News, Westside Albuquerque
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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Services set for local NAACP president
Funeral services for Harold Bailey, president of the Albuquerque NAACP branch, will be held later this month. He is remembered by state and local leaders as a champion of equality who spent half a century battling bigotry in New Mexico. Bailey died Monday at 78. State Rep. Pamelya Herndon, D-Albuquerque, who served as first vice […]