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    • Advocates tout benefits of free school lunches
      By Santa Fe New Mexican | 18 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.

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    • 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.

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      By Phaedra Haywood, The Santa Fe New Mexican Everything is in its place at Carolyn and Royce Stewart’s pin-neat south Santa Fe home.

    • Bill to protect those seeking abortion or gender-affirming care from discrimination advances

      A bill to prevent discrimination for individuals seeking abortion care or gender-affirming care in New Mexico cleared the House Health and Human Services Committee by 7-3 on Friday.

    • Voting bill draws mixed opinions at legislative hearing

      By Daniel J. Chacón, The Santa Fe New Mexican Three of New Mexico's 33 county election officials testified Friday against a bill advocates say would expand the right to vote and ensure free and fair elections in the state.

    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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