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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
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
Denim Padberg recently caught the attention of Republican Rep. Jason Harper of Rio Rancho, a chemical engineer — and not just because of the author’s extraordinary scientific endeavor of writing and publishing How Relative is Relativity? An 8-year-old’s Guide to Quantum Physics. Denim also is becoming a young spokesman about the challenges of dyslexia — a learning disorder that affects millions of Americans. Continue Reading
Consistent enforcement, with some improvement in current laws, will help reduce the number of alcohol-related fatalities, experts say. Lawmakers should also fund rehabilitation services because prison time alone won’t cure alcoholics, they say. Continue Reading
An attempt by two Republican legislators to cut the wages of many of the state’s lowest-paid workers is dead. Continue Reading
New Mexico is the only state in which elected officials take the public infrastructure budget and divide it up according to a political formula. Continue Reading
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Saturday voted largely along party lines to pass a $6.3 billion budget. Continue Reading
Jonathan Madrid has become a symbol in the state Legislature for a bill that would incorporate lifesaving training in health education courses for seventh- and ninth-graders across the state. Continue Reading
Shawn Nieto, a running back at Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho, may have more influence than any lobbyist as state legislators decide whether to strengthen concussion protocol for players from the pee-wee level to senior high. Continue Reading
Teresa Younger has launched a 52,000-mile “listening tour” and has made appearances around the country, like one held Thursday in Santa Fe. Continue Reading
To the surprise of no one, members of the elite families that have dominated politics and economics in Juárez and the state of Chihuahua for the better part of a century are entering the upcoming mayoral race, but this round they are joined by an array of disaffected insiders along with a sprinkling of outsiders. Continue Reading
Lawmakers have held a series of private committee and subcommittee meetings over the last two weeks to discuss how to allocate more than $6 billion in state money, without the public scrutiny that comes with most committee hearings. Continue Reading
While there was little doubt that the Republican-controlled House would pass the measures, the real question is how they will do in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Continue Reading