Posted inJobs, Workers & Economy, New Mexico Statewide News, Syndicated

Location for Doña Ana Co. reproductive health center expected to be announced next month

This story is republished from Source NM as a part of our commitment to bringing you the best in independent news coverage that matters to Albuquerque. BY LEAH ROMERO / Source NM The location for New Mexico’s $10 million reproductive health clinic in Doña Ana is slowly getting closer to a public announcement.  Dr. Eve Espey, […]

Posted inNew Mexico Statewide News, Syndicated

Torrance County to vote on extending ICE prison contract

By Austin Fisher / Source NM Torrance County’s elected officials will meet Wednesday to vote on whether to extend a contract allowing the federal government to incarcerate asylum seekers in central New Mexico. The agenda for tomorrow’s Torrance County Commission meeting includes a request from County Manager Janice Barela to sign an amendment to the contract between the county […]

Posted inCourts, Justice & Safety, National News, Syndicated

Supreme Court will decide whether Trump is immune from federal prosecution. Here’s what’s next

By ASSOCIATED PRESS / WASHINGTON The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week with profound legal and political consequences: whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In addition to establishing a potentially historic ruling about the scope of presidential power, […]

Posted inAlbuquerque, Education, Syndicated

Missed deadlines lead to $11.5M veto, upending plans for UNM public health school

BY: Austin Fisher / Source NM New Mexico’s flagship research university missed two deadlines to ask for state money to establish an accredited school of public health within the next year to deal with infectious disease pandemics. The lapse means the UNM Health Sciences Center will not receive $11.5 million for the school, placing in limbo […]

Posted inHousing & Homelessness, New Mexico Statewide News, NM State Gov., Syndicated

Lengthy to-do list before NMFA begins approving $125 million in new housing loans

Patrick Lohmann/Source New Mexico The head of the state’s finance authority tasked with doling out a windfall of housing loans said the authority is on track to OK loans in the fall — so long as what she called the “timeline gods” are merciful. In the legislative session that wrapped up in February, lawmakers approved […]

Posted inNew Mexico Statewide News, Syndicated

A year later, Southern N.M. still waiting on location for state reproductive health clinic

Leah Romero/Source New Mexico Little progress has been made with the $10 million New Mexico lawmakers secured in 2023 to fund a reproductive health clinic in Doña Ana County. As the money sits mostly untouched in an account at the University of New Mexico, the project’s principal fiscal agent, the statewide interest groups insist the […]

Posted inCongress & Federal Gov., New Mexico Statewide News, Syndicated

U.S. Senate spending panel calls for extending pay boost for Forest Service firefighters

JACOB FISCHLER /Source New Mexico Members of a U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee said at a hearing Wednesday they were focused on keeping pay for wildland firefighters at the higher level set in a 2021 law and urged Forest Service Chief Randy Moore to focus on ways to maintain a healthy timber industry. Senate Interior-Environment Subcommittee Chair […]

Posted inNew Mexico Statewide News, Politics & Elections, Syndicated

Organizers launch ‘Uncommitted’ primary campaign to criticize Biden’s support for Israel

By Austin Fisher/Source NM A grassroots effort to use the New Mexico primary election to push President Joe Biden’s policy positions on Gaza officially launched in the state over the weekend. The campaign called Vote Uncommitted New Mexico, is encouraging people to register as Democrats and vote “uncommitted” on their primary ballots, rather than selecting […]