Legislative Finance Committee

The state's Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, or EMNRD, met with lawmakers at the roundhouse Thursday to ask for a budget increase that…

New Mexico’s Law Office of the Public Defender is seeking more funding, but not just for more lawyers. They want to hire more social workers, too. New…

Let’s Talk New Mexico 1/21 8am: Last week, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham released her list of top legislative priorities for the year. The Governor and…

The New Mexico Department of Health has missed its mark for early childhood health services and needs to create a whole new strategy to improve health…

Horrifying and fatal cases of child abuse and neglect are pervasive in New Mexico. People here are asking the question: How do we stop this? Nationally,…

The state spent almost half its 2015 child behavioral health dollars on expensive outpatient programs that have not been shown to be effective, according…

The state Senate has passed a proposal that would ask parts of state government to start doing more research on which of their programs delivers the best…

The hole. That’s what they call it on television. It’s the mind-shattering pit fictional prisoners will do anything to avoid.In real life, human rights…