“We only have ten legislative session days left so hang on. A lot can happen. I know one thing, there’s going to be a lot of activity at the Capitol.”
“You have to have predictability with all of your partners, stakeholders, advocates, businesses,” Michelle Lujan Grisham told POLITICO's Energy Summit.
Halfway through the legislative session, legislators are disagreeing on how the state’s surplus money should be spent and social issues targeting vulnerable groups are stealing the spotlight.
Production assistants’ tasks include including office work, errands, set up and clean up. The New Mexico Film Office is conducing online PA training. (Courtesy of CNM) It's time to "break in"-to the New Mexico film industry. The New Mexico Film Office began its series of online production assistant training opportunities for New Mexicans. The free, one-day, online PA trainings will take place from Saturday, May 20 through July and will prepare New Mexicans to begin a career as a production...
Nathaniel Ortiz, center, of Farmington leads a group prayer during a vigil at Hills Church Farmington, N.M. on Monday, May 15, 2023. (Jon Austria/Albuquerque Journal) In an interview, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Tuesday she will again pursue an assault weapons ban and age restrictions for purchasing firearms — ideas that failed to reach her desk in this year's 60-day legislative session. Leading Democratic legislators, meanwhile, said they are working on bills to establish a 14-day...
Nathaniel Ortiz, center, of Farmington leads a group prayer during a vigil at Hills Church Farmington, N.M. on Monday, May 15, 2023. (Jon Austria/Albuquerque Journal) In an interview, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Tuesday she will again pursue an assault weapons ban and age restrictions for purchasing firearms — ideas that failed to reach her desk in this year's 60-day legislative session. Leading Democratic legislators, meanwhile, said they are working on bills to establish a 14-day...
Hari Viswanathan Across New Mexico and the entire United States, hundreds of thousands of undocumented, orphaned oil-and-gas wells have the potential to pollute water and leak methane and other toxic gases into the atmosphere, contributing to rising global temperatures. The first challenge to plugging these wells is locating them. A methane moment Carbon dioxide gets the spotlight as a heat-trapping greenhouse gas that's driving up average global temperatures, but methane is more than a bit...
New York Times: Spying in Mexico Strikes a New Victim: the President's Ally — While looking into abuses by the armed forces, the country's top human rights official was targeted with Pegasus, the world's most notorious spyware, The Times found. — Natalie Kitroeff reported from Mexico City and Ronen Bergman from Tel Aviv.
New York Times: 3 People Killed and 6 Injured in New Mexico Shooting — The shooter, an 18-year-old, was killed by the police, the authorities said. Two police officers were among the injured. — An 18-year-old gunman fired indiscriminately while roaming a residential street in Farmington, N.M. …
Cameras in the Farmington neighborhood recorded a voice said to be 18-year-old Beau Wilso urging police to 'kill me' and officers rushing toward the gunman, before shooting him dead.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Sweeping Legislation to Protect the Innocence of Florida's Children — TAMPA, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Let Kids Be Kids bill package to protect Florida's children from permanent mutilating surgical procedures, gender identity politics in schools …
With one week remaining in the Illinois legislature’ s spring session, a revised version of proposed legislation to aid the Chicago Bears’ move to Arlington Heights has surfaced in Springfield. The new setup would add Schaumburg to the list of beneficiaries and would change the payout percentages so that Arlington Heights would get 30% of the revenue; Palatine