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Lawmakers on Sunday replaced a map that a tribal coalition spent months working on to find consensus. A Senate committee voted instead to approve an amended plan re-drawing the New Mexico Senate’s voting districts that was introduced just before the meeting.
(Press Staff Photo by Geoffrey Plant) Wendel Hann ducks into his trailer to fetch an order for a customer. Hann and his Gila River Ranch meat products are a fixture at the Silver City Farmers’ Market, which operates every Saturday year-round in a covered area at 907 N. Pope St., just north of College Avenue on the north end of downtown. The demand for his American Grassfed Association-certified meats is ※almost more than I can handle,” said Wendell Hann, owner of the Gila River Ranch in the Cliff-Gila Valley. Accordingly, Hann said he was among the many ranchers in New Mexico who were d...
Graphics New Mexico law enables early, out-of-state school enrollment for military kids 04.20.2021 10 On April 6, 2021, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed N.M. Senate Bill 272 into law, allowing incoming military students to register in New Mexico school districts before they physically arrive in the state, effective with school year 2021-2022. Students can enroll in schools when their sponsors receive PCS orders. LEAVE A COMMENT
AZTEC — A house memorial focused on infrastructure investment for Native American communities received unanimous support from the House State Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee. The house memorial, known as Native American Infrastructure Investment, would encourage New Mexico’s congressional delegation to introduce legislation that would assist the Bureau of Indian Affairs with efforts like expanding infrastructure accessibility, reducing poverty rates, increasing economic opportunities and improving educational access for Native American communities in the state. If passe...
Anti-diversion bill heads to House Written by Geoffrey Plant on February 24, 2021 With the majority Democratic members of two key state legislative committees recommending in hearings over consecutive Saturdays that a House bill to sideline the Gila River diversion group “do pass,” the future of the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project has never looked so imperiled. As the bill, titled “Water Trust Board Projects and N.M. Unit Fund,” heads to the House floor for a vote as soon as this week, N.M. CAP Entity Executive Director...