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Premium Content Subscriber only More than half of the patients who visit Mackay GP Kerry Summerscales are veterans or first responders because she knows first-hand the trauma of being on the frontline. Dr Summerscales served in the Australian Defence Force for 30 years including at Bougainville, Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands. She helped save countless lives abroad, and has turned that dedication to ensuring fellow Australian veterans survived civilian life. Dr Summerscales has thrown her support behind the Daily Mercury's Hub for our Heroes campaign to develop a social club in Macka...

Prescribed Burning Act Passes New Mexico Senate EMNRD News: Santa Fe — Sunday, the Prescribed Burning Act, an Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) priority bill, passed the New Mexico Senate with a 37-1 vote. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Matthew McQueen and Gail Armstrong and Senators Peter Wirth and Pat Woods, focuses on managing our forests for a changing climate and aims to prevent future catastrophic fires. Having previously passed the House, the bill now goes to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham for signature. “Passage of this bill highlights the importance of bringin...

Mar. 14—Wealthier New Mexicans, as well as corporations earning more than $500,000 annually, would pay a higher tax rate under legislation the Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee passed on a party-line 7-4 vote Saturday. The proposal to raise the personal and corporate income tax rate for higher earners is part of an effort to increase and expand two tax break programs that are ...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... State officials predict New Mexico will not return to pre-pandemic employment levels until late 2023. Even that’s a rosy scenario. The Congressional Budget Office forecasts national employment won’t regain pre-pandemic levels until 2024. Despite those ominous projections, lawmakers are moving forward with a slew of anti-business and anti-consumer proposals that, if passed, will ensure it takes ...

Premium Content Frontline responders are more than twice as likely to be suicidal than other adults. Their exposure to traumatic and graphic scenes in their roles as paramedics, police officers, firefighters, electrical workers, doctors, nurses and more can be debilitating. A BeyondBlue survey of more than 21,000 first responders found more than one in four experienced probable post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition impacting their lives and that of their families. Plans that would make Mackay a revolutionary health and wellness hub for veterans and first responders to treat post-traum...