By Daniel J. Chacón and Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican As Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham started her post-session news conference Saturday, she already knew the score. Of the roughly 40 public safety bills introduced this year, the governor said she championed 10. “We have about a handful up, and out of 40, it’s […]
By Robert Nott and Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican In the end, as Dean Martin liked to sing, everybody loves somebody at least, sometime. That was true in the waning minutes of this year’s legislative session as lawmakers from opposing parties and with markedly different views of political philosophy bid goodbye […]
By Robert Nott and Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican The New Mexico Legislature careened toward a finish late Friday, passing both key and lesser-known legislation while trying to hash out a deal on a massive tax package. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate pushed full steam ahead from mid-morning to […]
By Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican With just a little over a day to go in the 2023 legislative session, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill into law expanding learning time for students in the state’s public schools. House Bill 130 will mandate an increase in learning time in public schools to 1,140 […]
By Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican A bill brokered this week by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state Senate leaders from both parties hailed as a compromise in an emotional debate over rising medical malpractice costs passed the House of Representatives in a 63-0 vote Thursday. Senate Bill 523, drafted in a […]