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National Guard called in to help with some tasks, but big staffing shortage and poor planning mean that might not be enough, he says.
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WildEarth Guardians via Flickr/A controversial hydrogen development bill at the forefront of the governor’s legislative agenda stalled in its first committee hearing Thursday. -
FlickrA bill that would increase the property tax cap for housing that’s not a primary residence, such as vacation rentals and second homes, passed its first New Mexico House committee Thursday.
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NewUnion_org/Pixabay.comNew Mexico Department of Health officials changed course again on the delivery of their weekly COVID-19 update on Wednesday in response to media and public criticism of the format on January 19th.
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Nash Jones/KUNMA new bill to expand voting access in New Mexico seeks to clarify the ballot drop box requirement after several counties pushed back on the state’s interpretation of the rule last year. But the proposal would also reduce the requirement for nearly all counties.
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Today we’ll take our first dive into education in this legislative session - and it’s a doozy. But we don’t shy away from controversy on #YNMG; we dig into it. School boards around the country have been among the new cultural battlegrounds where parents with differing political views fight for their respective moral values. Sometimes it gets ugly. Along with new ideas of trying to respect more perspectives in school curriculum has come the backlash over the perception of critical race theory sneaking in and harming our kids.
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New Mexico didn't have enough nurses even before the pandemic and nursing advocates renewed their push Thursday for lawmakers to boost funding to increase capacity at nursing schools around the state to remedy a situation made worse by the coronavirus pandemic. -
As homeless shelters are stretched, and housing advocates warn rising rents could cause more evictions, lawmakers are proposing legislation that would give tenants more protections.
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At the University of New Mexico, graduate workers and their supporters rallied Wednesday to call for the university authorities to bargain with them.
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Democratic lawmakers have a lengthy wish list in New Mexico as they seek to expand access to voting, including a statewide holiday on Election Day to encourage voting, automated restoration of voting rights for ex-convicts, and more time to distribute and count absentee ballots.
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Steve - stock.adobe.com/Adobe Stock“What we’re starting to see is that affordable housing can no longer be ignored,” says Megan Lawson of Headwaters Economics.
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Brett Davis/Flickr Creative CommonsCommunity members and Democratic leaders commemorated the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, while warning that the movement behind it is stronger than ever.
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