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Advisory panel endorses redistricting maps for New Mexico

SANTA FE – An advisory board on redistricting endorsed several plans for realigning the boundaries of political districts across New Mexico on Friday, backing proposed congressional district...

DATE: Oct 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico explores public financing for cannabis businesses

SANTA FE – Small-scale marijuana businesses in New Mexico would receive access to publicly financed loans of up to $250,000 in an effort to promote social and economic fairness, under a prop...

DATE: Oct 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Recall effort against Cowboys for Trump founder lags

SANTA FE – Time is running out for a recall effort aiming to kick Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin out of office as a county commissioner in southern New Mexico. Supporters of the pet...

DATE: Sep 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico races to spend federal rental assistance

SANTA FE – State agencies spent federal pandemic aid at a furious pace during the month of August, channeling about $630 million in efforts to bolster unemployment reserves, provide emergenc...

DATE: Sep 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Native Americans aim to boost voting power in New Mexico

SANTA FE – A coalition of Native American communities has proposed redrawing New Mexico’s political map to boost Indigenous voters’ influence in elections. The proposed changes from New Mexi...

DATE: Sep 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Nutrition aid surges, food banks brace for uncertain future

SANTA FE – Food banks in New Mexico with high rates of childhood poverty and hunger are watching with apprehension as the federal government boosts standard food stamp benefits in October an...

DATE: Sep 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

New Mexico deploys absentee ballot drop boxes statewide

SANTA FE – Election officials are deploying ballot drop boxes across New Mexico for people who chose to cast absentee ballots without walking indoors during the upcoming Nov. 2 local electi...

DATE: Sep 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Native Americans draft redistricting proposals in New Mexico

Tribes seek greater self-determination in future elections

DATE: Sep 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

New Mexico plots greater spending, from tuition to Medicaid

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An expansion of nonmerit scholarships to college and greater spending to safeguard abandoned oil wells in New Mexico are among the governor's new spending priorities, amid a windfall in state income linked to federal pandemic relief and petroleum production.

DATE: Sep 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico sets rules to launch pandemic debt collection

SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico’s court system is taking steps to ease financial upheaval as the state braces for a wave of foreclosures on delinquent mortgage loans and the state phases out a m...

DATE: Aug 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico defends title as most Latino state in nation

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has retained its title as the nation's most heavily Hispanic state, with 47.7% of respondents to the 2020 census identifying ancestry linked to Latin America and other Spanish-speaking areas.

DATE: Aug 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico shrinks reliance on for-profit prison operators

SANTA FE – New Mexico is on the cusp of finalizing prison takeovers that will reduce private prison operations to 25% of inmate beds, amid a plunge in prison population numbers statewide. Co...

DATE: Aug 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

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