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Published May 14, 2017 at 580 × 430 in 040117-051417

The Rio Grande at Alameda Bridge, April 1, 2017 – May 14, 2017

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Former inmates want voting rights restored
By Santa Fe New Mexican | 16 hours ago
By Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican Adam John Griego is dreaming of the day he can vote again. The 50-year-old Santa Fean, who spent two years in prison for a felony drug possession charge, anticipates how it will feel when he can finally cast a ballot once more: "Liberating," he said.
Adult sexual misconduct ‘prevalent’ in New Mexico’s public schools
By Santa Fe New Mexican | 16 hours ago
By Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican Two years after being recognized as the girls track coach of the year at Los Lunas High School, Johnathon Bindues was in handcuffs, accused of exchanging thousands of sexually explicit text messages with a freshman on the team.
Carbon sequestration bill passes House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee
By Hannah Grover | 16 hours ago
In the effort to prevent global warming exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius (nearly 35 degrees Fahrenheit), technology like carbon capture and sequestration may be needed, according to reports from groups like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Rep. Meredith Dixon, D-Albuquerque, pointed to that report when presenting a bill that would provide $2.4 million of state money for New Mexico so that the state could seek primacy over Class VI wells. Dixon sponsored House Bill 174 along with Rep. Nathan Small, D-Las Cruces. The bill passed the House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee on a 6-4 vote.

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New full-spectrum reproductive health care clinic in Las Cruces still in planning stages
By Susan Dunlap | January 28, 2023
A new full-spectrum reproductive health clinic in Las Cruces is still, at least, a few years from becoming a reality, said Bold Futures Executive Director Charlene Bencomo.
Law to ban discrimination against organ donor recipients has support
By Nicole Maxwell | January 28, 2023
Three legislators filed a bill to prevent patients from being denied an organ donation due to mental or physical disability from happening in New Mexico, dubbed Glory’s Law.

About Laura Paskus

Laura Paskus has been writing about New Mexico’s natural resources and communities since 2002, as an assistant editor of High Country News, a radio producer at KUNM-FM, managing editor of Tribal College Journal and a freelancer for a variety of publications including the Santa Fe Reporter, New Mexico In Depth and Indian Country Today. Her work has also appeared in Al Jazeera America, Ms. Magazine, National Geographic Online, The Nature Conservancy Magazine, The Progressive, Columbia Journalism Review, The Mountain Gazette, Audubon and Orion. She's a correspondent for New Mexico In Focus and a graduate student in the University of New Mexico’s Geography and Environmental Studies Department.

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