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By Robert Nott and Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican In the end, as Dean Martin liked to sing, everybody loves somebody — at least, sometime. That was true in the waning minutes of this year’s legislative session as lawmakers from opposing parties and with markedly different views of political philosophy bid goodbye […]

Amid a recent rise in retail theft, a bill giving prosecutors the ability to charge individuals convicted of stealing large amounts of merchandise from stores with stiffer criminal charges passed

By Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican Looking for a way to deter what law enforcement officials call organized retail crimes, members of the House of Representatives voted 62-3 Wednesday to approve a bill imposing new and harsher penalties for such offenses. House Bill 234 is “a very focused response to the disturbing and […]

New Mexico District Judge James O. Browning denied a request for a temporary retraining order and preliminary injunction, allowing the U.S. Forest Service to move forward with aerial gunning of cattle in the Gila Wilderness...

The Gila National Forest has begun closing its boundaries to commence with the second aerial gunning of cattle loose in the New Mexico wilderness area. 

By Robert Nott and Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican Rushing from one room to another on a recent hectic day at the state Capitol, Rep. John Block paused to consider a question lawmakers themselves have been mulling. How was the freshman Republican from Alamogordo feeling at the midway point of this year’s 60-day […]

A bill to ensure New Mexico children are taught affirmative consent – that affirmative consent is necessary before and during sexual activity – during their mandatory health class passed the House Chamber 49-12. HB 43, Affirmative Consent Policy in the Schools, will require the health class taught in either eighth grade or high school in […]

The House Education Committee unanimously passed a bill that would eliminate the Gross Receipts Tax on small business owners operating early childcare centers. HB 137, GRT Deductions for Child Care Assistance, will, if enacted, eliminate the 8 percent to 9 percent GRT that early childcare centers are required to pay on children who qualify for […]

The House Education Committee unanimously passed a bill that will, if enacted, make menstrual products free in the public and charter schools in New Mexico. HB 134, sponsored by House Rep. Christine Trujillo, D-Albuquerque, appropriates $3 million from the general fund to the New Mexico Public Education Department to provide free menstrual products in the […]

By Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican This is no bull — and no joke. There’s a crime still all too common to those who run farms and ranches around New Mexico: livestock rustling. And not just cattle theft. Horses, donkeys, pigs, llamas and all sorts of poultry are also being hauled away by […]