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‘Remain vigilant’: NM immigrant defenders say no confirmed ICE …
2 days ago · Mescalero Apache President Thora Walsh Padilla published a statement Thursday evening on Facebook, saying that an ICE agent approached a tribal member in public and spoke Spanish. The tribal member responded in English and produced a New Mexico driver’s license and a tribal identification card, and the ICE agent left, according to Padilla’s statement.
New Mexico Senate majority leader commits to making court …
4 days ago · Court-ordered mental health treatment has launched in north-central New Mexico, as court officials work to start similar programs elsewhere in the state and ask lawmakers for more money to do it. The First Judicial District, which encompasses the counties of Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos ...
NM Legislature Day 1 recap: Gov and lawmakers reset after …
5 days ago · The first day of the 2025 legislative session is over. Fifty-nine more to go. Over the course of the next two months, lawmakers will try to approve what is projected to be another record budget, find consensus on dozens of expected bills related to public safety and behavioral health, plus address various other crises like housing and health care.
New Mexico Legislature will tackle public safety and more starting ...
Jan 20, 2025 · New Mexico lawmakers will convene at noon on Tuesday, Jan. 21 with a hefty 60-day agenda and a healthy budget to help fund existing and new initiatives across a spectrum of programs. Democratic leaders over the last few weeks expressed optimism that their agendas dovetail with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s.
NM Senate Majority Leader expresses optimism about session
6 days ago · The opening gavel strike for the 2025 session is mere hours away and so begins the flurry of activity of a nearly $11 billion dollar budget and lawmaking. Sen. Peter Wirth (D-Santa Fe), the Senate Majority Leader, sat down with Source New Mexico to talk about priorities in the 60-day session. He ...
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Jan 19, 2025 · NM lawmakers, solar advocates seek $60M to help keep small towns powered during disasters BY: Patrick Lohmann - January 17, 2025 New Mexico lawmakers and renewable energy advocates will once again seek funds and legal authority during this year’s legislative session to help rural and tribal governments establish solar-powered centers, in part to ensure residents have stable electricity ...
Lawmakers file the first bills of New Mexico’s 2025 legislative …
Rep. Kathleen Cates (D-Rio Rancho) introduced a bill to protect libraries from losing funding for refusing to ban books based on the subject or an author’s sexuality, race or gender, countering a rise in book bans across the nation. This law wouldn’t impact the right of individuals to challenge specific materials in a library’s collection.
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Nov 27, 2024 · High-speed internet to expand in rural areas impacting students in seven NM school districts BY: Leah Romero - December 17, 2024 Nearly 40,000 households in seven rural New Mexico school districts will receive high-speed home internet in coming months, following state grants from the Office of Broadband Access and Expansion’s Student Connect program.
New Mexico reports more than $2B in revenue for the third year in …
Dec 5, 2024 · Oil and gas revenue earned New Mexico more than $2.5 billion last fiscal year, state officials announced Thursday. It was the third straight year the state broke the $2 billion threshold from its land, and its second-biggest windfall of that type ever. With record production, New Mexico has risen to become the second-highest producer of […]