By Trip Jennings / New Mexico In Depth / Democratic Speaker of the House Brian Egolf kicked off the 54th legislative session last week by acknowledging the diversity he saw arrayed before him in the Legislature’s lower chamber. “We start with the most diverse House of Representatives our state has ever seen,” the Santa Fe […]
By Makayla Grijalva and Shayla Cunico / NM News Port / The effects of the “Year of the Woman” are being seen in New Mexico. In particular, the number of women running for the NM House of Representatives is up eight percent from the 2016 election cycle. “We have a whole group of sort of […]
By Makayla Grijalva / NM News Port/ New Mexico may be on track to achieve another Democratic “trifecta” after the 2018 election cycle. A state government trifecta happens when a single political party has control of the governor’s seat and the majority in both chambers of the state legislature— in this case, the N.M. House […]
By Trip Jennings and Danielle Prokop / NM News Port / The final legislative session of Gov. Susana Martinez’s tenure passed into history Thursday. What a difference a few months makes. Last May, state lawmakers were in crisis dealing with a yawning budget gap and no money for the state’s universities and colleges or […]
By Kris Klarer, Fin Martinez, and Mia Clark / NM News Port A bill in the 2017 New Mexico legislative session seeks to make punishments for repeat DWI offenders more severe by preventing them from purchasing alcohol in the state. House Bill 271, sponsored by representative Jane E. Powdrell-Culbert (R-NM), would ban second-time DWI […]
By Aaron Hagler & Ebony Romero / NM News Port Hundreds of New Mexicans gathered at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe in January in support of protecting the state’s public lands and in opposition to a U.S. bill proposing to sell off federal land in New Mexico and nine other western states. “I think we […]
By John Jamison / NM News Port The 2017 session of the New Mexico State Legislature has seen at least a half dozen bills introduced to tighten up ethical standards and bring more accountability to state political figures. New Mexico is one of only 10 states that does not currently have an ethics commission, according […]
By Ben Francisco and Allison Giron / NM News Port There are more than 5,000 sexual assault examination kits sitting untested in New Mexico, but Senate Bill 7 now under consideration in the state legislature provides money to test these kits in the fiscal year 2018-2019. Bill 7 is currently sitting on the Senate Finance […]
By Jacob Leyba and John Acosta / NM Newsport Reckless drivers in New Mexico will not receive harsher penalties for vehicular homicide, at least this year. This topic was addressed in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Tuesday Jan. 31. NM State Rep. Sarah Maestas Barnes (R-Albuquerque) sponsored a bill in the 2017 legislative session […]
