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By Gabrielle Porter, The Santa Fe New Mexican The distance between "no means no" and "yes means yes" got a little shorter Monday morning when a legislative committee voted in favor of a bill that would require public colleges and universities in New Mexico to adopt "affirmative consent" as the standard for consensual sexual activity.
A new version of the Paid Family and Medical Leave bill would, if enacted, extend leave benefits to families of military service members, among other changes made after it failed to pass in previous legislative sessions. The bill is sponsored by Senate Pro Tem Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, state Rep. Linda Serrato, D-Santa Fe. Under the