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A lengthy hearing full of emotional, deeply personal stories — and rhetoric about abortion that has been offered by both sides of the debate for decades — didn’t change any minds on a state Senate committee Tuesday. Continue Reading
Army Spc. Daniel Fernández died almost 50 years ago when he dived on an enemy grenade in Vietnam, saving the lives of four buddies. Continue Reading
State Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas says he didn’t set out to change the mission of the Santa Fe-based New Mexico School for the Deaf. He simply wanted to study the possibility of adding a four-year college. Continue Reading
A proposed amendment to the budget bill moves our state in the right direction by removing $8.5 million that funds the destructive and failed “merit pay” program of the Public Education Department. Continue Reading
Let’s get this done. Then let’s direct all this righteous anger toward a renewed push for sensible immigration reform. Continue Reading
We must continually engage conservative voters, as progressives do through the Progressive Voter Alliance, and we must ensure they go vote their values. Continue Reading
If the Legislature OKs the proposed amendment to the N.M. Constitution, voters would have the final say in November. Continue Reading
Two Senate Democrats made blistering attacks on the state Public Education Department on Monday night, then helped kill a bill the agency supported to allow schools to hire adjunct teachers in grades 7 through 12. Continue Reading
The Corrections Department recently instituted a week-long ban on visitors to the prisons in order to ease the workload on officers. A spokeswoman said the department likely will impose the ban once a month until the department can hire and keep more guards. Continue Reading
Roswell and neighboring communities are pushing for the bill because they say they are negotiating with a major U.S. airline. Continue Reading
The Senate Education Committee on Monday tabled a bill that would hold back third-graders who can’t read at grade level by the end of the school year, effectively killing the proposal for this legislative session. Continue Reading
On Monday, the Martinez Administration continued defending its 2013 decision to freeze funding to 15 behavioral health organizations — even as the attorney general announced that his agency had cleared almost all of them of criminal wrongdoing. Continue Reading
As has been the case for years, the biggest reported expenses have been from the state’s ski and golf industries, which see the gifts as a good way to spread goodwill and get lawmakers to visit their facilities. Continue Reading
Do I wish Bernie were a woman or a person of color or both? Yes. Is it worth casting my vote for someone because of their gender or race despite being out of step with my own hopes and progressive values? No way. Continue Reading
If Gerardo Alfredo De Luna needs to give up his driver’s license and get a driving authorization card, he’ll do it. But he says he will not give up his fingerprints to a law enforcement agency to get such a card. Continue Reading