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Today is Friday, June 20th and it’s still hot but about to be much cooler and wetter.
Could it really be 80-degrees and rainy next Tuesday in ABQ?!
Mayoral candidates in Albuquerque are making their last pitch to voters to qualify for the ballot this weekend just as city council candidates start campaigning (one councilor is already on the ballot).
We found out how a council bill designed to close a THC loophole accidentally created a new one.
Exclusive: nm.news + City Desk was the only print publication invited to visit the city’s new medical respite center in the Gateway Center. Go along with Reporter Jesse Jones and Photojournalist Roberto Rosales inside this innovative new service designed to help get the most medically vulnerable off the streets.
In our NM section below, Senator Heinrich is fired up about Sen. Mike Lee‘s plans to sell millions of acres of public lands – including a LOT of New Mexico’s favorite spots.
You have no excuse to be bored. A reminder, if you are out and about this weekend, find some fun, local things to add to your itinerary from the calendars at The Paper. and the Santa Fe Reporter. There are (no kidding) over 1,500 community-submitted events from mariachis to crafts to psychic readings.
Let’s do news…
ABQ & BernCo.
Earlier this month, Albuquerque’s City Council passed one of the state’s first bans on synthetic THC products sold through a loophole in federal and state cannabis laws.
But City Reporter Jesse Jones took a new look and found that an amendment added along the way created a new loophole as big as the first. Oops?
Also, we sat down Mayor Keller and residents of the city’s new medical respite at the Gateway Center to see how this new service is helping the unhoused avoid a return to the streets after a medical crisis.
Council’s attempt to ban hemp-derived THC didn’t do that at all.ย
Albuquerque’s new medical respite center is giving unhoused people a safe, supportive place to heal after hospital stays — and a better shot at stable housing. Mayor Tim Keller joined…
Mayor Tim Keller told Albuquerque business leaders that the city is finally making real progress on crime, homelessness and downtown revitalization after years of effort. Speaking at the Embassy Suites…
ICYMI…
New Mexico
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member on the U.S. Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has issued a warning about the potential sale of public lands in New Mexico if…
U.S. Senators responsible for reviewing the impact of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” say Medicaid cuts in the House proposal and further cuts proposed this week by Senate Republican leaders could…
Fires in or near the Gila National Forest are continuing to grow amid dry conditions. The Trout Fire is burning north of Silver City and has prompted some evacuations, while…
A drastic shift in federal immigration policy will leave hundreds of immigrant youth in New Mexico legally unprotected, according to the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC). On June 6,u0026hellip;
National
By Lakshya Jain, Harrison Lavelle — As Republicans crafted their One Big Beautiful Bill, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) offered a warning: “Our voters support social insurance programs. More than that,…
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