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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
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
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
The left-right agreement on dental therapists in the Land of Enchantment includes the free-market Rio Grande Foundation as well as the left-leaning Health Action New Mexico and New Mexico Voices for Children. 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