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Leading Democratic legislators introduced a revised state Senate redistricting plan Wednesday that would preserve recommendations from Native American communities, amid an extended stalemate in drawing new political boundaries.
After a lengthy debate over what might constitute “transformative” spending of some of the $1.1 billion American Rescue Plan Act money, the state Senate approved HB 2 by a vote of 36 to 4. HB 2 appropriates $478 million of the ARPA funds into various projects, such as road work, broadband expansion and conservation projects. […]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Legislators are looking for ways to break a stalemate on...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Legislators are looking for ways to break a stalemate on redistricting plans for the New Mexico state Senate amid a standoff with Native American leaders about fair representation.
New Mexico is inching closer to spending nearly half of the roughly $1.1 billion in remaining federal relief money given to the state under the American Rescue Plan Act passed earlier this year.