A conservative New Mexico lawmaker is drafting legislation allowing schools to rate library books for sexual and violent content and possibly materials about LGBTQ+ issues and race and remove them from general circulation, a move another legislator labels censorship and promises to fight. If the bill passes, New Mexico would be the first state in […]
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The race isn’t over yet: Close calls force 34 recounts in local New Mexico elections
Who says every vote doesn’t count? 34 races that were on the ballot on Nov. 3 that do not yet have clear winners and must undergo a statewide automatic recount after candidates and ballot questions came within ½ percent of each other on Election Day, including several where just one vote makes the difference. Torrance […]
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Toulouse Oliver pushes back against Fed lawsuit seeking personal data on New Mexico voters
New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver pushed back against the federal government on Wednesday after the Justice Department filed suit against her for not turning over information from the state’s voter registration database. In two posts on X, Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat who is also running for lieutenant governor in 2026, called the […]
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Trump’s approval dips to 36%, just shy of all-time low
President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has hit its lowest level since he returned to the White House on Jan. 20, according to a Gallup poll released on Friday. The poll of 1,321 U.S. adults conducted from Nov. 3 to Nov. 25 showed Trump with a 36% approval rating, representing a five-point drop since October. […]
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Many New Mexicans lack access to “trustworthy local news,” new study finds
Many New Mexicans say they lack access to trustworthy local news, what they do have is often hard to access, even in bigger cities where news institutions have been hollowed out over the years. Those are just some of the findings of a new study highlighting the troubling state of local news and promising solutions […]
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Leger Fernández: GOPers who back extending tax credits need to step up
Editor’s note: As a part of the deal to reopen the federal government, Republican leaders agreed to schedule a vote on, but not guarantee, extending federal healthcare subsidies, aka “Obamacare subsidies”, by mid-December. All 5 of New Mexico’s members of Congress voted against that deal, preferring to hold out for a permanent extension. With just […]
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Arctic Frost payout repeal put on ice, frustrating Heinrich
A bill, similar to one backed by Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, that would prevent senators from receiving $500,000 payments to Republican senators whose phone logs were obtained without their knowledge during a probe into the Jan 6, 2021, attack, has hit a roadblock. On Thursday, the Senate sought to take up the measure that unanimously […]
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‘Corruption of the highest degree’: Heinrich, Leger Fernández start repeal of $500,000 payout provisions for senators
Two members of the New Mexico congressional delegation are taking the lead in repealing a provision of the recently passed government funding bill that allows senators to receive payments whose phone records were accessed by Jan. 6 investigators without their knowledge. In the U.S. Senate, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, and Sen. Mark Kelly, D-AZ, announced […]
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$120 million in cuts to New Mexico colleges, universities targeted DEI, energy
Restrictions to student aid and scaled back research grants could add up to double trouble for students and colleges in New Mexico next year, the state’s secretary of higher education warned legislators last Friday. The changes, some of which were included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, include the scaling back of some repayment […]
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In Dem. primary for governor, former Las Cruces mayor talks pro-oil, anti-minimum wage agenda
Ken Miyagishima is hoping to be the next governor, but many of the voters he needs do not know which party’s nomination he is trying to capture. For Miyagishima, the former five-term Las Cruces mayor, that dilemma was on display at a Nov. 6 campaign event in Roswell organized by the local non-profit group Many […]