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Advocates tout benefits of free school lunches
By Santa Fe New Mexican | 16 hours ago
By Margaret O’Hara, The Santa Fe New Mexican When Sherry Hooper, executive director of The Food Depot, talks to the thousands of families across Northern New Mexico who use the regional food bank's services, she hears a consistent story about household budgets. First, she said, families pay for fixed expenses: They make rent or mortgage payments; they pay for gas and electricity to keep the lights and heat on; they fuel up vehicles so they can get to work. What's left of their meager income, Hooper said, will go toward food.
House panel backs tougher penalties on police assaults, rejects qualified immunity
By Santa Fe New Mexican | February 5, 2023
By Nathan Brown, Santa Fe New Mexican A House panel voted Saturday to advance a bill to increase penalties for some attacks on police officers, while rejecting two others that would have restored qualified immunity as a defense for officers facing misconduct complaints.
Bill focused on remediation of San Juan Generating Station, mine passes committee
By Hannah Grover | February 5, 2023
State Rep. Anthony Allison spoke about the uranium contamination that has impacted Navajo and Pueblo communities, including leading to increased cancer rates and groundwater contamination.

Committee tables bill to expand ONRT’s authority to pursue damages following contamination
By Hannah Grover | February 5, 2023
An effort to expand the state’s Natural Resources Trustee ability to sue companies that pollute New Mexico’s land and water failed to make it past its first committee despite significant changes made in a committee substitute.
Economic transition bill passes committee on party-line vote
By Hannah Grover | February 4, 2023
A bill intended to assist fossil fuel workers as the economy transitions passed the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee on a 6-3 party-line vote on Friday.

Patrick Davis is the executive director of ProgressNow NM, a public advocacy organization advocating for progressive causes in New Mexico.

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