Anna Padilla
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Source NM
The New Mexico State legislative session began this week and since it’s an even year, it will last only 30 days. Next year's session will last 60 days. KUNM asked former legislator Dede Feldman to explain how shorter sessions work, and may not be long enough to create good policy.
Discovery Time Learning
Jon Austria
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Albuquerque Journal
Tuesday night, due to a court order in an ongoing lawsuit between the city and the bookstore owner, the few remaining encampment residents gathered their things and left.
Let's Talk New Mexico
Courtesy Office of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
New Mexico’s 112 legislators and their staffs plus more than 400 more aides, pages and security personnel at the Roundhouse, and the countless advocates and lobbyists, are all flooding into Santa Fe for the session. So where do they stay? And where do they eat? And what about entertainment? On the next Let’s Talk New Mexico we’ll discuss the session’s effects on the city.
Finding Help With Food
Susan Montoya Bryan
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AP
A list of resources around New Mexico for those who need assistance in the wake of the ongoing government shutdown and disruption in SNAP benefits.
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Hundreds of New Mexicans rallied and marched up the steps towards the Roundhouse Tuesday on the opening day of the legislative session as part of a mass mobilization by Youth United for Climate Crisis Action -
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