By Kevin Hendricks Sen. Cindy Nava once spent her days in the Roundhouse hallways as an undocumented student volunteer, watching lawmakers she couldn’t vote for decide her future. Now she’ll be the one counting their votes. New Mexico Senate Democrats elected Nava, a Democrat from Bernalillo, as Senate Majority Whip on Oct. 4, the caucus […]
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State opens the floodgates: $3.75 million in emergency aid heads to New Mexico communities
By Kevin Hendricks, New Mexico Political Report — New Mexico communities overwhelmed by floodwaters can now tap up to $3.75 million in state emergency money and call on the National Guard for backup. Lt. Gov. Howie Morales, filling in for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who is out of state, signed five executive orders Wednesday declaring […]
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Shocked by ‘extreme’ PNM bills, Alamogordo residents demand answers
By Kevin Hendricks Alamogordo residents came to Tuesday’s town hall carrying their PNM bills. Some were double their usual amount, some triple, and one topped $1,900. They wanted state regulators to explain how the utility arrived at those numbers. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission hosted the two-hour town hall at the Sgt. Willie Estrada […]
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
Pennies for the poorest: Only 1% of state housing dollars target New Mexicans most in need
By Kevin Hendricks, New Mexico Political Report — New Mexico has poured $524 million into housing since 2022, but households with the lowest incomes get about a penny of every income-restricted dollar. The state also can’t consistently say what the rest bought, according to a Legislative Finance Committee report presented Tuesday in Las Cruces. This […]
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Opinion: Who can afford to serve in Legislature? Amendment 4 could change the answer
Guest Commentary by Miguel Tittmann – As firefighters and union members, we have a simple belief: the people closest to a problem should have a voice in solving it. That’s why I’m publicly supporting Constitutional Amendment 4 and the New Mexico Professional Firefighters is endorsing Vote for Change, the campaign to finally create a limited […]
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Opinion: Our educators belong in the state capitol, too
Guest Commentary by Whitney Holland – New Mexico asks a lot of its educators. We ask teachers to educate our children while navigating challenges that extend far beyond the classroom. We ask education assistants to support students with increasingly complex needs. We ask school employees to build relationships with families, stretch limited resources and help […]
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Texas legislature to hold hearings on annexing New Mexico counties
A proposal by two New Mexico legislators to allow three counties along the Texas border to secede from the Land of Enchantment was dead on arrival in Santa Fe earlier this year, but across the border in Texas Lone Star legislators are running with the idea and holding hearings backed by Texas’ Speaker of the […]
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New Mexico added 3,800 doctors in 4 years — all while hospitals demanded malpractice caps to stop “growing shortage”
Commentary by Pat Davis, nm.news — During last year’s state legislative session, legislators passed, and the governor signed, a sweeping package of medical licensure and malpractice reform bills to fill what hospital companies and think tanks called “a growing shortage of health care providers.” But new data from the state’s own board responsible for licensing […]
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Torrez sues feds to obtain records of DEA operation allowing fentanyl to be distributed across New Mexico
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico against the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, seeking records necessary for the New Mexico Department of Justice’s (NMDOJ) investigation into allegations that DEA agents knowingly allowed large quantities of […]
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State Rep withdraws from reelection bid to address “challenges with alcohol”
A first-term New Mexico state representative is withdrawing from his race for reelection after confrontations last month with Chicago police who responded to reports of a man “running naked in the hallway” of a hotel where legislators were staying during a national conference. This story was originally published at New Mexico Political Report, a nonprofit […]
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