By Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican
Published: Saturday January 28 2023 00:04AM
By Phill Casaus and Daniel J. Chacón
Published: Saturday January 28 2023 00:01AM
Three legislators filed a bill to prevent patients from being denied an organ donation due to mental or physical disability from happening in New Mexico, dubbed Glory’s Law.
Published: Saturday January 28 2023 00:01AM
By Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican
Published: Saturday January 28 2023 00:01AM
by: Renato Costa
On Saturday, Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) secretary, Dr. Kurt Steinhaus, announced his departure from the governor’s administration.
Published: Saturday January 28 2023
Published: Friday January 27 2023 00:04AM
By Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican
Published: Friday January 27 2023 00:02AM
By Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican
Published: Friday January 27 2023 00:01AM
by: Piñon Post
Published: Friday January 27 2023
Published: Thursday January 26 2023 00:05AM
By Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican
Published: Thursday January 26 2023 00:04AM
by: Renato Costa
On Thursday night, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson of Tucker Carlson Tonight interviewed New Mexico state Rep. Stefani Lord (R-Sandia Park) about a bill, H.
Published: Thursday January 26 2023
by: Joe Monahan
MLG (Moore, Journal)Can someone please explain this? The Governor holds a news conference to trot out a crime-fighting package with its centerpiece the pretrial detention bill and at the same news conference she cozies up to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Cervantes who is going to kill that very bill.
Published: Thursday January 26 2023
Published: Wednesday January 25 2023 00:05AM
A bill that would expand the current prohibition on storing radioactive waste in New Mexico passed its first committee—the Senate Conservation Committee—on Tuesday on a 6-1 vote.
Published: Wednesday January 25 2023 00:03AM
With questions remaining surrounding allocation of federal assistance, the communities impacted by the largest wildfire in state history are asking the legislature for $100 million to replace and repair infrastructure destroyed or damaged by the blaze.
Published: Wednesday January 25 2023 00:02AM
by: Joe Monahan
A state holiday on Election Day? That's about the only deal-breaker in this year's voting rights bill that is surfacing at the Roundhouse.
Published: Wednesday January 25 2023
by: John Block
On Wednesday, H.B. 80, sponsored by Rep. Greg Nibert (R-Chaves), passed through its first committee with vast bipartisan support.
Published: Wednesday January 25 2023
A Republican-sponsored bill attempting to get combined cycle natural gas included in the definition of renewable energy died in its first committee on Tuesday.
Published: Tuesday January 24 2023 13:02PM
Published: Tuesday January 24 2023 00:05AM
By Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican
Published: Tuesday January 24 2023 00:04AM
by: Renato Costa
Democrats are planning on resurrecting the failed bill they tried to pass in the last legislative session that was filibustered down by Republicans in the final hours.
Published: Tuesday January 24 2023
by: Joe Monahan
Sen. Pope Here's a topic near and dear to the hearts of some of our New Mexico lawmakers. ABQ Dem Senator Harold Pope wants to ban the boozing at the venerable Roundhouse, or at least strictly limit when senators can imbibe.
Published: Tuesday January 24 2023
by: Joe Monahan
Sen. CervantesThe stunning shootings of homes of four elected officials allegedly engineered by failed GOP House candidate Solomon Pena doesn't seem to be moving the needle on that controversial pretrial detention bill that's back at the Roundhouse.
Published: Monday January 23 2023
by: Renato Costa
Published: Monday January 23 2023
by: Renato Costa
On Tuesday, the New Mexico House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee (HCPAC) will meet to consider an extreme anti-gun bill, H.
Published: Sunday January 22 2023
by: Renato Costa
Published: Sunday January 22 2023
by: Piñon Post
Published: Friday January 20 2023
by: Joe Monahan
Pena in courtSolomon Pena has done the near impossible. He's made politicians look sympathetic--and he's the gift that keeps on giving to them.
Published: Thursday January 19 2023
by: Renato Costa
Published: Thursday January 19 2023
by: Joe Monahan
Speaker Martinez (Moore, Journal)Open the floodgates. A huge gusher of money is about to flood through courtesy of a new House Speaker and a Governor unshackled from re-election worries and armed with the most massive cash kitty in New Mexican history.
Published: Wednesday January 18 2023
by: Renato Costa
On the second day of the 2023 Legislative Session, progressive legislation was referred to House committees for consideration. Some of the proposals include sweeping gun bans to assault New Mexicans’ constitutional rights.
Published: Wednesday January 18 2023
by: Renato Costa
On Tuesday, the New Mexico Legislature met for the first session of the 56th Legislature, which is meeting for 60 days this year.
Published: Tuesday January 17 2023
by: Joe Monahan
Pena arrested (Rosales, Journal)The 112 legislators gathered at the capitol today are breathing a sigh of relief in the wake of an arrest on the eve of the session related to the recent shootings that targeted the homes of ABQ based politicos.
Published: Tuesday January 17 2023
by: Piñon Post
On Monday, the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) revealed that Solomon Peña, a former GOP candidate for state House of Representatives District 14 was arrested at his Albuquerque home.
Published: Monday January 16 2023
by: Renato Costa
Published: Monday January 16 2023
by: Joe Monahan
The start of the 2023 legislative session tomorrow isn't the only big news in Santa Fe this week. One of the most impactful financial and healthcare decisions will be made when the NM Human Services Department announces the companies that will be awarded contracts to run the state's Medicaid program for nearly 1 million lower income recipients--or almost half the state's population.
Published: Monday January 16 2023
by: Renato Costa
Published: Saturday January 14 2023
by: Renato Costa
On Thursday and Friday, Democrats dropped more anti-gun bills to assault New Mexicans’ Second Amendment rights
Published: Saturday January 14 2023
by: John Block
On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, that would require medical care for babies born alive after a failed abortion attempt.
Published: Thursday January 12 2023
by: John Block
On Wednesday, Democrats dropped their latest anti-gun bill they will introduce this upcoming 2023 Legislative Session
Published: Thursday January 12 2023
by: Renato Costa
On Monday, far-left New Mexico state Rep. Patricia Roybal-Caballero (D-Bernalillo) dropped the Democrats’ first anti-gun bill of the 2023 Legislative Session, H.
Published: Thursday January 12 2023
by: Joe Monahan
Mayor Ken SchultzHow could a former mayor of New Mexico's largest city be dead for three and a half years and no one have a clue that he is gone? That's the odd story of Ken Schultz, mayor of ABQ from1985-'89 who we have learned passed away in Henderson, Nevada in 2019 but only now has confirmation of his death become public.
Published: Thursday January 12 2023
by: John Block
Published: Tuesday January 10 2023