Funding the Future: An early education trust fund
The Legislative Finance Committee on Dec. 9 got an updated forecast of expected revenue for 2020, with the state expecting a $797 million surplus. That’s down from $907 million in “new money” forecast in August, but still a large chunk of money to divvy out for things like education, infrastructure and state agencies. How it would work.
Lujan Grisham overstepped with special session
2024年7月24日 · When Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham entered office in 2019, a speculative undercurrent centered on her reputation for micromanagement and often stubborn unwillingness to compromise. In the ensuing years, despite significant policy accomplishments made in cooperation with Democratic leadership in the Legislature, those traits have steadily come to ...
State Ethics Commission sues Apodaca’s dark money operation
2024年5月24日 · The State Ethics Commission on Friday sued a dark money group and its president, Jeff Apodaca, to force disclosure of the sources behind the money paying for political advertising in support of legislative candidates running in the June 4 primary election.. The New Mexico Project registered as a domestic nonprofit corporation in New Mexico last fall, and has since spent thousands of dollars on ...
Judge orders dark money group to publicly disclose where its …
2024年8月29日 · A state judge is ordering a dark money group that paid for political advertising in support of legislative candidates earlier this year to disclose the sources of its funding and its spending by September 9. In a 14-page ruling filed Wednesday in state court, Judge Joshua Allison agreed with the State Ethics Commission that the New Mexico Project meets the definition of “political committee ...
Blind Drunk Archives - New Mexico In Depth
By Ted Alcorn, New Mexico In Depth | January 22, 2024. Alcohol killed more than 2,000 New Mexicans in 2022, according to new data from the Department of Health, the third straight year the state exceeded that grim threshold. Although New Mexico has long suffered the nation’s highest rate of alcohol-related deaths, the crisis has often been ...
Andi Murphy - New Mexico In Depth
Andi Murphy is Navajo from Crownpoint, N.M., a small town on the Navajo Nation reservation. She has been a writer since she learned how to use a pencil. She evolved into a journalist, from a creative writer, during her first year in college when she joined the American Indian Journalism Institute and the Native American Journalists Association. Through AIJI, she …
Remembering the largest radioactive spill in U.S. history
2014年7月7日 · But the largest spill of radioactive material in the United States happened three and half months after Three Mile Island and several thousands of miles west of Pennsylvania. July 16 will mark the 35th anniversary of the day in 1979 when a dam on the Navajo Nation near Church Rock, N.M., broke at an evaporation pond, releasing “94 million ...
Domestic Violence court offers alternatives, hope for future
2018年1月22日 · Rather than pursue a conviction, Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court offered him a pre-prosecution alternative: the Domestic Violence Early Intervention Program. As part of that program, he participated in group and individual counseling sessions and parenting classes for six months. It’s the same amount of time his daughter has been alive.
Confronting a long tradition of silence - New Mexico In Depth
2015年5月27日 · Today, youth board members like Hill and Manuelito’s middle-school aged son — a radiant boy, Virgil, who shows off the center’s gardens and greenhouse — work to increase suicide awareness. Together, they are confronting a long tradition of silence. At the skate park, Endito watches the skaters’ performances closely.
Insterstate Stream Commission: Meet the Decision-Makers
The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission is mandated to “investigate, protect, conserve, and develop” New Mexico’s surface waters. The commission itself includes nine members. All of them, including the State Engineer—who serves as the commission’s secretary—are appointed by the governor. The ISC also includes staff members such ...