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Let’s Talk New Mexico 1/19 8am: Beyond the limits of the tight legislative calendar, lawmakers are faced with the challenge of understanding dozens of bills each session without having full-time staffers to help them. They often rely on industry insiders, lobbyists or activists for information on how proposed legislation will work. Furthermore, legislators do their work without a salary, earning only what they get for a per diem which is much too low to cover their stay in Santa Fe.
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Let's Talk New Mexico 11/5, 8a: There’s never been an election like 2020, and on this week's Let’s Talk New Mexico, we’ll be looking at how the process…
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New Mexico is among a handful of states that allow vague reporting on spending by lobbyists – people whose business it is to push an issue at the…
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For decades, legislators have repeatedly fumbled the creation of an ethics commission to stop government corruption. But voters demanded one…
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Most other states around the country have some kind of watchdog agency in place to investigate politicians and other powerful people entrusted with public…