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By Daniel J. Chacón and Robert Nott, Santa Fe New Mexican | February 22, 2021 Gabriela Campos/Santa Fe New Mexican Sen. Benny Shendo Jr., D-Jemez Pueblo, looks through paperwork during a meeting of the Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee on Thursday. Shendo meets with committee members in a mostly empty committee room with a small staff to assist with organization and Zoom management. To hear House Speaker Brian Egolf tell it, public participation in this year’s largely virtual legislative session has been robust even if the doors of the state Capitol have been closed to ev...

State Senator Pushes For Cage-Free Eggs In New Mexico - 11:56 am Buffy the chicken pauses while searching for dried mealworms Thursday afternoon outside an adobe coop in the yard of Santa Fe resident Bob Zimmerman. Photo by Gabriela Campos/SFNM By DANIEL J. CHACÓN Why did the chicken cross Old Santa Fe Trail? To lobby at the Roundhouse in support of legislation that would create a better living environment for egg-laying hens. A bill that prompted a couple of lawmakers to do a double-take and then crack some jokes after it was introduced last week would prohibit large c...

SANTA FE - New Mexico's minimum wage is currently $10.50 an hour, but not for high school students who work jobs outside of class. Under current law, employers can pay those younger workers as little as $8.50 per hour unless they work for tips. If they are tipped more than $30 per month, they are paid the statutory minimum wage of $2.55 per hour for tipped employees. (That wage increased by 20 cents on Jan. 1.) The state minimum wage is set to increase each year until it reaches $12 in 2023. The lower wage for high school students was established by the legislature in 2019. Moreover, th...

meunierd/Shutterstock Senate Bill 10, which would repeal the 1969 abortion ban on state law books, passed the Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee 5-3 Monday. The vote fell along party lines with the three Republican state Senators voting against and the five Democrats on the committee voting in favor. After a two hour wait due to technical difficulties, the committee hearing ran for nearly 2.5 hours due to the length of the debate on the issue. Members of the public for both sides gave impassioned speeches both for and against. “(The bill) makes sure that women, in collaboration with...

By Robert Nott, Santa Fe New Mexican | January 24, 2021 Gabriela Campos/The New Mexican Sen. Greg Baca works on a client case file as his law office in Los Lunas on Firday afternoon. Baca, a former Navy veteran, is the new Senate minority leader. The ocean. Greg Baca had never seen anything like it. A product of desert terrain — he was born in Belen in 1971 — Baca looked out over the watery expanse of the Atlantic from the deck of the USS Nimitz and saw a whole new world around him. “It was just bigger and more beautiful than I could have imagined,” recalled the onetime machinist�...