The New Mexico Senate Education Committee on Friday advanced a universal child care bill that would only require co-pays from high-earning families under specific economic circumstances. plus, A deal to sell PNM's parent company to Blackstone Infrastructure got the OK on Friday from the Public Utility Commission of Texas following a regulatory settlement reached with intervenors in December, and it has already been approved by the Federal Communications Commission.

For decades, Native women and other women of color were subjected to forced sterilization by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service. Lawmakers introduced a memorial Tuesday in the Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs committee to create a truth and reconciliation commission that would conduct a study into the history, and continuing impacts of this abuse.