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A bill likely to come before the New Mexico Legislature next session will be another run at passing a state-run Paid Family and Medical Leave program into law but in 2023, the program will have some concessions to businesses as well as new expansions. Tracy McDaniel, policy advocate for Southwest Women’s Law Center, said a […]
After Tuskegee University veterinary students took photos with various animals, the images were shared thousands of times on social media.
A memorial that is part of a longer strategy to introduce a bill in next year’s legislature for paid family and medical leave passed 7-2 largely along party lines in the House Labor, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. House Memorial 3, sponsored by state House Rep. Linda Serrato, D-Santa Fe, asks for a $160,000 appropriation […]
A poll taken this fall shows that New Mexican voters are in favor of a state-supported paid family and medical leave program. A group of Democratic representatives, led by state Rep. Christine Chandler of Los Alamos, have sponsored a bill to establish such a program in the last few legislative sessions but the bills failed […]
The Shawnee News-Star A Pottawatomie County jury has recommended a Shawnee man convicted in a lewd acts case following a trial last week should serve 130 years in prison; a formal sentencing date has been scheduled May 3. Aaron Charles Buck, 50, was originally charged in 2019 and stood trial last week on four felony counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child under age 16. The trial, held before Associate District Judge Tracy McDaniel, ended with the jury deciding guilty verdicts on Counts 1, 2 and 4, and an acquittal in Count 3. As a result of the trial, the jury has recommended Buck should s...