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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 Santa Fe New Mexican To some degree, the two contrasting actions that played out late Friday morning ...

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 […]

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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. ................................................................ Sen. Majority Leader Peter Wirth, a Santa F...

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 talk during the hour-long event was about HB 7 and SB 10, mirror bills that would repeal the 1969 stat...