Vote Run Lead Action To Hold ‘Run As You Are’ National Training For Candidates & Campaign Managers April 24-27
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POLITICAL News:
Vote Run Lead Action is holding a “Run As You Are” National Training program, April 24-27 in Atlanta, Ga.
Vote Run Lead Action is a national non-partisan, non-profit powerhouse that trains women and gender-expansive individuals to run for office and win. Attendees include hundreds of aspiring candidates and their campaign managers from across the country.
The Vote Run Lead Action National Training is an immersive training event featuring hands-on workshops that provides tools, strategies and confidence to step up, lead with authenticity and take office. Read More
Ringside Seat: Senate Defunds DA On Claims Of Incompetence
By MILAN SIMONICH
The Santa Fe New Mexican
State Sen. George Muñoz claims criminals roam unchecked in his hometown of Gallup because of a prosecutor’s ineptitude.
“The district attorney has no employees. We have over 600 cases there that are not getting heard,” Muñoz told fellow senators this week during debate on the state budget.
His solution is to cut McKinley County District Attorney Bernadine Martin’s budget by 94%, or $3.88 million. Muñoz, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, shifted the money to the district attorney of neighboring San Juan County.
If Muñoz’s proposal Read More
New Mexico House And Senate Agree On Legislation To Cut State Income Taxes For Working People
STATE News:
- Bill to eliminate state income tax for many working families now heads to Governor
Tax Compromise Keeps Earned Income Credit, Axes Oil And Gas Hike
Rep. Derrick Lente, D-Sandia Pueblo
Chair
House Taxation and Revenue Committee
By Esteban Candelaria and Nathan Brown
The Santa Fe New Mexican
A bipartisan committee of House members and senators struck a deal late Friday night to preserve an expanded tax credit for working New Mexicans while nixing a tax hike on oil and gas producers.
The conference committee of three lawmakers from each chamber voted 5-1 around 9:30 p.m. to approve the agreement, with Rep. Mark Duncan, R-Kirtland, opposed. The revised version of House Bill 14 needs to pass the full House and Senate before the Legislature adjourns Read More
NM ‘Wasting Money’ With Billions In Unspent Capital Outlay
Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup
Chair
Senate Finance Committee
By Daniel J. Chacón and Esteban Candelaria
The Santa Fe New Mexican
Highly coveted capital outlay is proving to be a double-edged sword for the New Mexico Legislature.
While the so-called pork barrel spending allows lawmakers to bring the bacon home to their districts, a growing backlog of projects and balances of unspent capital outlay expected to exceed $6 billion are turning into a major headache.
Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup, chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, reiterated his frustrations with the backlog Thursday, Read More
Bill Creating More Open Primary Elections In New Mexico Heads To Governor’s Desk After Narrow House Victory
Rep. Cristina Parajón, D-Albuquerque
By DANIEL J. CHACÓN
The Santa Fe New Mexican
A bill that would allow some 330,000 unaffiliated voters in New Mexico to participate in primary elections without changing their voter registration to a major party is one step away from becoming law.
Senate Bill 16 headed to the governor’s desk Friday after squeaking by the House of Representatives on a 36-33 vote.
Rep. Cristina Parajón, D-Albuquerque, said the measure seeks to increase voter turnout in the state’s primary elections. Independent voters, or those who decline to state a party affiliation, would Read More
Bug Conservation Provision In New Mexico Game And Fish Department Bill Beelines Into Law
The Roundhouse in Santa Fe. Post file photo
By ALAINA MENCINGER
The Santa Fe New Mexican
Every time an inventory of insects and other arthropods is conducted in New Mexico, new species are discovered.
The state, home to thousands of native pollinator species, is a “biodiversity hot spot” in North America, especially for insects and other arthropods, said David Lightfoot, the senior collection manager for the Division of Arthropods at the Museum of Southwestern Biology.
It keeps Lightfoot busy.
“We’re still kind of the Wild West when it comes to understanding our insects in the state, which Read More
NMDOH: Curry County Skunk Tests Positive For Rabies
Skunk. Courtesy/wikipedia
NMDOH News:
SANTA FE — A skunk found in Clovis has tested positive for rabies, marking the first confirmed case of the virus in New Mexico this year, health officials report.
Rabies is a deadly virus that affects mammals, including wildlife such as skunks, bats and foxes in New Mexico.
“Rabies is uncommon in household pets like dogs and cats – because responsible pet owners make sure their animals are up to date on their rabies boosters,” said Dr. Erin Phipps, state public health veterinarian for the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH). “Rabies vaccination is the Read More
Interstate Compacts To Help Ease New Mexico’s Health Care Worker Shortage Are Stuck In Committees
The Roundhouse in Santa Fe. Post file photo
By MARGARET Ó’HARA
The Santa Fe New Mexican
New Mexico is very close to joining all 10 major medical provider compacts.
Lawmakers have proposed several bills this session to join those compacts, allowing a freer exchange of working doctors, audiologists and speech language pathologists, occupational and physical therapists, counselors, psychologists, physician assistants, social workers and emergency medical technicians between New Mexico and other states.
The biggest one — a compact that would significantly ease the process for doctors Read More
New Mexico State Land Office Named A National Top Workplace By USA Today For Second Year In A Row
Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, holding award, and her staff gather for a group photo to celebrate being named a Top Workplaces by USA Today for the second year in a row. Courtesy/NMSLO
NMSLO News:
SANTA FE — USA Today has announced that the New Mexico State Land Office (NMSLO) has won a Top Workplaces USA award for midsize organizations (with between 150-499 employees) for the second year in a row. more than 2,220 organizations participated in anonymous employee surveys as part of the national challenge.
The State Land Office previously won a 2023 and 2024 Woman-Led Organizations Read More
