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New Mexico Legislature will tackle public safety and more starting ...
2025年1月20日 · 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.
‘Remain vigilant’: NM immigrant defenders say no confirmed ICE …
2 天之前 · 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.
NM Senate Majority Leader expresses optimism about session
6 天之前 · 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 ...
New Mexico reports more than $2B in revenue for the third year in …
2024年12月5日 · 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 […]
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New Mexico governor releases $10.9 billion budget proposal, a 7% ...
2024年12月12日 · Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will push the Legislature to boost spending on housing, behavioral health, water protection and child welfare in the upcoming session, according to a proposed $10.9 billion budget her office released Thursday afternoon.. The budget would be the biggest in state history and a 7% increase over the $10.2 billion budget lawmakers enacted earlier this year, which was ...
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.
The year in water news: Preparing for New Mexico’s drier future
2024年12月27日 · Money and water. One thread Source NM will follow in 2025 is how New Mexico spends its money when it comes to its most precious resource. While oil and gas revenues have kept money flowing for the state government’s operations, water conservation nonprofits and the executive branch are asking state lawmakers to turn the tap on in 2025 for water investment.
New Mexico governor, advocates call for increased funding on …
2024年12月4日 · All 108,000 miles of river in New Mexico were deemed the nation’s most endangered earlier this year, as the impacts from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling changed overnight which wetlands federal law protects.. Shrinking water supplies heighten the threat of pollution, said Tricia Snyder, the rivers and water director for nonprofit NM Wild.