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February 22, 2021 With session clock ticking down, much work remains for legislators Written by the Santa Fe New Mexican on February 22, 2021 (Courtesy Photo) Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, D-Santa Fe, works Friday on the Senate floor. “We are moving fast, but we’re also moving judiciously,” said Rodriguez, vice chairwoman of the Senate Finance Committee. “We are looking at the fiscal impacts of bills more carefully than usual.” By Robert Nott S...

To some degree, the two contrasting actions that played out late Friday morning spoke volumes about this year’s 60-day legislative session. In the House of Representatives, members prepared to debate a contentious bill that would repeal a decades-old law making it a felony to perform an abortion. Around the same time, in her Santa Fe […]

Dr. Tracie Collins was at UNM before stepping into Cabinet post in the fall

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal When the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission ended work on the Gila River diversion in 2020, it was a complete about-face. The Gila River flows south of Cliff, Grant County, in June 2019. (Robert Browman/Albuquerque Journal) The previous commission had spent years and $16 million for plans to divert the river for southwest New Mexico farmers. Senate Bill 212 would amend the makeup of the nine-member body that oversees interstate water compacts. ...........

Mural by Jodie Herrera commissioned by ACLU-NM Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham could have the bill that decriminalizes abortion care on her desk as early as late Friday, House Speaker Brian Egolf said during a Planned Parenthood Votes New Mexico event. Planned Parenthood Votes New Mexico, an arm of Planned Parenthood, held a remote event called “Toast of the Town” Wednesday evening. The Santa Fe Democrat was one of several speakers, including Lujan Grisham as the keynote speaker. Most of the ta...

Massachusetts auto dealers ride out COVID Posted Feb 17, 2021 It should come as no surprise that COVID-19 has had a tremendous impact on the automotive industry, just as it has on others. First, the bad news. “The coronavirus pandemic certainly impacted new light-vehicle sales in 2020, not to mention the U.S. economy as a whole,” said Patrick Manzi, chief economist for the National Association of Auto Dealers in their analysis of auto sales last year. “Our forecast at the start of 2020 e...

A bill to shore up abortion rights in New Mexico by repealing a dormant ban on most abortion procedures won Senate approval on Thursday, clearing a crucial hurdle in a 25-17 vote.

New Mexico State Senate. Two years after a group of conservative Democrats, along with  Republicans voted against  decriminalizing abortion care, the state Senate passed SB 10 Thursday, 25 to 17. SB 10, sponsored by state Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque, is called the Respect New Mexico Women and Families Act and has a mirror bill, HB 7, sponsored by Rep. Micaela Lara Cadena, D-Mesilla. The two bills remove three sections from the criminal code which, in 1969, banned abortion with some limi...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Independent voters don’t have a voice in New Mexico’s primary elections, and lawyers are financing judicial campaigns. Two good-government bills addressing these election shortcomings have been introduced in the Legislature, and it’s time to pass them both and make them law. House Bill 79, spo...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A bill to shore up abortion rights in New Mexico by repealing a...